Past, Present and Future Cycle: An Intergenerational Partnership for Development

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The resolute voice among young people is that they want to be involved in decision making processes at every level of life. The approach towards meaningful participation is not as mere policy and programme beneficiaries but as equal stakeholders required during policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. Adults were and some are of the notion that youths are leaders of the Future. This has found its way to alienate youths bestowing adults with Present’s discourse. The emergence of Youths are Leader of Present echoed through amplified and coordinated global, regional and national campaigns. For development to be successful, an intergenerational partnership is pre-requisite.
Humankind lives in a sprinting-relay scenario, where generations pass on to another as the race of life moves. This implies that the adults had their time and influenced much of the Past and part of the Present. The other part of Present and Future resonates to be shaped by young people. Thus it’s a cycle. There will come a time a generation needs to hand over. The Present becomes the zone where skills needed for the future are imparted. It is sad that the ones who won’t be in the near future want 100% control of how it has to unfold, ignorant of those who are actually going to be living in the Future.

The partnership of this cycle is greatly informed by the proceeding of engagement of the Present. The Present thus marks engagement where the young taps into the experience of the adults from the Past and their vision to determine discourse of the Present and the future. The Present, marks the positive ground for meaningful capacity building and involvement in decision making.  The adults through the experience from the Past then utilize part of the Present to empower young people for the Present and the Future.

The whole impact of the Future will be determined by the processes done during the Present informed by the experiences in the Past. You need to understand where you have been in order to know where you are heading. These historical phrases have been there and allude to the metaphor of Past, Present and Future Partnership.

Thus working together adults and young people will advance our lives in imaginable ways that responds to issues affecting our society, nations and the globe. Ignoring this partnership in tantamount to a doomed society, nations and the globe.

I look forward to Past, Present and Future Intergenerational partnership in reaching Sustainable Development Goals.


Submitted by:
Tinashe Chirape
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