Roughly 5,000
Young adults followed
Panel cohort in Yaoundé since 2018.
Research
Research on Youth Transition
Yaoundé panel, linked field experiments, and evidence notes.
Data
The Yaoundé panel
A longitudinal Yaoundé cohort gives the research agenda a concrete base for tracking the school-to-adulthood transition.
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Secondary schools in baseline sample
Schools named in the baseline sample.
Wave 2
Verified public update
Wave 2 completed in 2019.
Panel design
Baseline built for follow-up
The research note documents longitudinal follow-up. The baseline design page documents secondary-school sampling across Yaoundé.
Agenda
Research focus
The agenda connects demographic change to the practical question of whether young people can move into work, responsibility, and contribution.
Demographic change and inequality
The research agenda addresses uneven demographic change, inequality between countries, inequality within countries, and the transition from school into work and adult responsibility.
Youth human capital as a field question
Public materials connect the evidence agenda to risk, work, learning, trust, and social integration.
Experiments
Field experiments
Field references show how trust, local context, and education technology shape whether support tools are actually used.
Education technology and trust
Cornell-linked public references connect PICHNET to a field deployment that reached 546 students across 3 schools and tested support tools under local conditions.
Story: The Greatest Generation? and related reporting on student preparation and transition.
Trust, uptake, and local context
Public references connect the experiments to trust, uptake, and local context.
Outputs
Publications
The publication archive helps readers move from high-level claims to source notes, study references, and related public materials.
Panel note
Evidence Base for Youth Transitions
Follow the Yaoundé panel to see how school, work, and adulthood questions are tracked over time.
Read the panel survey noteResearch agenda
A Frame for Demographic Change and Opportunity
Use the agenda note to connect inequality, fertility transition, youth human capital, and policy design.
Read the agenda noteLinked publications
Public Research References
The CHI 2019 and ICTD 2020 references point readers toward education-technology and youth-support work tied to Cameroon.
People
Scholar training and workshops
PICHNET's research work also creates rooms where scholars, journalists, students, and public communicators can work from shared evidence.
Scholar training
Scholar training, workshop participation, and Francophone collaboration appear across the research pages.
Media workshop
Yaoundé workshops with IFORD and partners brought researchers and communicators together.