Let’s start with the 4 “L”s:

• Leadership
• Livelihoods
• Lobbying
• Literati

Each of these 4 “L”s is summarized on its own page.  These 4 pages can be found by clicking on the side bar, to open a pull-down menu, then click on the page title. There you will find up-todate 2024 content about that “L”

Strategic Focusing

At C4L, the focus for over a decade has been building the capacity of Youth.  In South Africa that usually means young people under 35 years of age.  Our emphasis has been on youth from 18 – 28.  C4L also has also had a special focus on youth-led organizations (nonprofits and cooperatives).

C4L’s roots are in Disaster Management, for example after the Mozambique Floods in 2000.  In a way, the disasters have become bigger and more challenging:

• HIV and AID pandemic
• Global warming (i.e. climate change)
• State Capture
• Unemployment

Modes of response have included Development Programming (training or “human development”) and Public Engagement (lobbying and advocacy).

Depending on resource-flows, C4L’s “success formula” is to do 70 percent training, 20 percent emergency response, and 10 percent public engagement. The mix varies from year to year depending on available resources.