Access to Finance

Access to finance is one of the major challenges impeding the growth and survival of start-ups, existing farming activity and SMEs. This challenge is greatly responsible for the slow growth experienced by a large number of farmers and SMEs which consequently affects access to agricultural inputs, machinery, and employment of quality management staff. In spite…

Multi-stakeholders Platforms for Peace Building

Multi-stakeholder Platforms for Peace building are partnerships that support and enable socio-economic development programs to improve the standard of living for communities in the Niger Delta. These platforms empower communities to achieve a peaceful and enabling environment for equitable economic growth in the Niger Delta. These platforms include:   Partners for Peace (P4P) P4P is…

Best Management Practices (Demo Pond)

PIND worked with United Ufuoma Fish Farmers Association (UUFFA) in Warri, Delta State, on the pilot for the demonstration pond project to help instill best practices in the lucrative and popular practice of growing catfish. UUFFA is a large cooperative farm with 500 registered small scale commercial fish farmers and more than 2,000 ponds. This program enabled…

Association Strengthening (BMOs)

This project seeks to improve the management capacities of BMOs to provide better services to their members. Through our Association Strengthening intervention, we are building the organisational capacity of fish farming associations, improving their fish farming practices through demonstration ponds, connecting the farmers with local service provider experts to improve their business skills through the…

Youth Cassava Enterprise Project

PIND in  partnership with Ondo State Wealth Creation Agency (WECA) and Star Deepwater Petroleum Company Ltd designed a Youth Cassava Enterprise Project which will benefit 40 youths from 18 different local government areas in Ondo State at this pilot stage.   This project seeks to stimulate local economic growth and employment of youths by developing  the agricultural entrepreneurship…

Poultry Linkage initiative

Our Poultry Linkages Project was designed to provide implementation support to the poultry value chain which will increase local producers’ competitiveness and enable local processors of poultry upgrade meat quality and capacity to increase supply to sophisticated end markets. Objectives include: To facilitate the setting up of modern chicken processing plants and development of out-growers…

Small Business Development and Linkages Initiative

Small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in the Niger Delta region face many key constraints to their competitiveness and potential, some of which include poor technical and business management skills, poor access to finance and weak access to market information, particularly large institutional buyers. Building capacity among local SMEs is therefore critical to developing an enabling…

Capacity Building for Local Empowerment (CAPABLE) project

Our Capacity Building for Local Empowerment (CAPABLE) project seeks to enhance the institutional and technical capacity of development organisations and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the Niger Delta to achieve their goals and objectives As Nigerian local development organisations including civil society organisations, business membership associations, community-based organisations and some development oriented government agencies strive…

Aquaculture Value Chain Pilot Project

PIND’s value chain projects focus on poverty reduction by applying a market development approach. Each project seeks to create more accessible and inclusive market systems, thereby increasing the economic opportunities for large numbers of the poor and providing a path for them to escape poverty.