PIND sponsored 10 of its Youth Employment Pathways (YEP) participants to attend the Niger Delta Future Fest in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. This was done to commemorate International Youth Day, whose theme was ‘Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages.’ The participants share their stories of being part of the YEP Program and a message to other Niger Delta Youths.
In March and April 2022, PIND’s Peacebuilding Program organized capacity-building training for 32 (15 male, 17 female) participants from upland communities in Abia, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers States. PIND’s Integrated Peace and Development Unit (IPDU) trained the participants on volunteerism, leadership, conflict analysis, and identifying and reporting conflict incidents through the Early Warning Early Response…
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND)has trained 374 Niger Delta youthsin Warri and Asaba, Delta State on peacebuilding with a focus on volunteerism, conflict management and PIND’s SMS-based early warning reporting system. The training, whichtook place in Warri from February 21 to 22, and in Asaba from February 24 to 25,…
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) is proud to announce that our peacebuilding documentary “For the Good of All: Three Partners for Peace Stories”won gold in three categories (Best Strategy, Community Outreach, Community Space) and silver in one (Partnership or Collaboration) under the Humanitarian Action & Service causeat The Anthem Awards.…
’I am Dr. Nnnena Chikezie, the Permanent Secretary and the Executive Secretary of Abia State Planning Commission. Our collaboration with PIND in developing the Abia State long term plan was very demanding. It was equally a learning process and it gave us confidence that we were dealing with an organization that has strong technical strength to deliver. Even with the COVID-19, PIND kept pushing on, encouraging the State to go with the project. PIND gave us a project manager that would not stop until he got the target achieved. We had to adapt to the new normal and because there was every need to deliver the project on PIND’s part, they supported us in every way.
“The broodstock development program has contributed so much to our growth and we are getting good feedback from our clients. I must thank PIND for this program”
’My name is Uduak Etuk; I’m from Ekono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Currently, I’m a woodworker. I graduated with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Administration. After my NYSC (National Youth Service Corps), I have worked for several corporate bodies as an administrator, but I never saw the satisfaction in the job, so I had to stop. Then I picked up a form to start my post-graduate diploma, but along the line, there was no money for school fee, so I paused.
Then, I came across PIND online. I got to know about NDYEP on Facebook in a post that people will be screened on several skills, and I picked interest in woodwork. I was selected. And after the screening process, we proceeded to the training, which lasted for about six (6) months. The training has built me—technically, it has built me; and mechanically, it has built me. Currently, I’ve finished the training; I’m now doing my job.
‘’The entire team collectively prepared the proposal documents, following the grant writing standards taught during the mentorship. This helped us meet the donor project’s requirements as SEYP received a grant of EUR 45,000 from the Embassy. After that, we secured another grant of EUR 300,000 from the European Union (EU)/IOM, and the strength of staff has increased to 17 permanent staff,’’ explained the Chief Executive, Jennifer Ero.
“My name is Dr. Jeffery Wilkie, the co-chairman of the Warri Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP). So far, through the Warri MSP (which is a brainchild of PIND), we have been able to get experience and build capacity in conflict management—which we applied in circumstances that unfolded between the Ijaw and the Itsekiri in the three (3) Warri local government areas of Delta State (Warri North, Warri South, and Warri South-West) over the naming of the location where a new oil facility sited on a boundary land owned by the two (2) ethnic groups.
Our Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways (NYDEP) project targets to empower young people in the region to attain market-relevant technical skills, vocational skills, and soft skills to secure waged employment or start an enterprise (SDG 4 & 8).