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Human capital development with a focus on children and early childhood development
for increased productivity

Children are our future! It also goes that if they live traumatised/dissatisfied life

then the future will be a traumatic and/or dissatisfied future. The negative socio-economic

effects of the covid-19 pandemic on children through school closures, as just one example,

must necessarily be seen as a clarion call to develop interventions that safeguard quality,

equal and inclusive early childhood development as well as making long term investments

in education and health for increased productivity.

In the RCO study conducted in the CCA Regional focus paper to determine factors

contributing to youth being discouraged concluded that education is a primary

determinant.

The modelling proposes that the youth who have at least completed secondary

school are less likely to be discouraged while those with university level education are

hardly likely to be discouraged. Figure 6 below illustrates the probabilities proposed by

the model which proposes that respondents with a university qualification or a post-

secondary education besides university have less than 3 percent likelihood of being

discouraged, while respondents with a secondary education qualification and those who

completed primary education have a 14 percent and 10 percent likelihood of being

discouraged. On the other hand, respondents with no formal education or some

secondary schooling are up to 23 percent and 24 percent likely to be discouraged.

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