According to the youth assessment study commissioned by PIND and carried out by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) in 2011, a lot of the issues frustrating youth development in the region can be traced to a lack of strong youth leaders, the ability to have realistic expectations for the future and an array of soft skills that…
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PATHWAYS (YEP) PROJECTPROJECT OVERVIEW: Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways (NDYEP) began in 2018 to develop models of youth training in which marginalized young people are trained in market-relevant skills and subsequently supported into sustainable jobs or enterprise. The NDYEP is a two-year collaboration between Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND)…
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…
WARRI MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PLATFORMPROJECT OVERVIEW: The Warri Multi Stakeholder Platform (MSP) is a nonpartisan peacebuilding platform established by the Foundation for the partnership initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) in 2018. It has 16 members cutting across traditional rulers, State and Local Government representatives, and community representatives from the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups in Delta…
Support to State and Federal Governments is an aspect of PIND’s Advocacy for Niger Delta Development (ANDD) program. The ANDD is a multi-faceted initiative for raising awareness about economic development needs and issues in the Niger Delta and promoting collective action to address them under PIND’s four thematic program areas. Read more here. Through the…
The objective of this project is to strengthen civil society’s ability to influence the development and implementation of key democratic reforms at the national, state, and local levels and also support increased engagement and efficacy of civil society to influence public institutions whose function it is to serve citizens’ interests. Background The Strengthening Advocacy and…
SOMBREIRO KAPITAL (SK) PROJECT PROJECT OVERVIEW: Established as a corporate enterprise to facilitate access to finance innovations for smallholder farmers in the Niger Delta, PIND has focused effort in 2020 to test and evidence the viability of the Sombreiro Kapital’s proposed model and products in the pilot sectors and States: Aquaculture, Palm Oil Processing and…
The Small-Scale Processing Equipment (SSPE) enables farmers and processors to produce palm oil quantities that are of significant commercial value by improving the process of oil extraction from palm fruits with an increase in extraction rate of up to 15%. With this technology, palm oil farmers and processors can better maximise their produce and increase…
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…
POULTRY VALUE CHAIN PROJECTPROJECT OVERVIEW: Rearing local breeds of chicken is a typical activity of rural households across Nigeria, including in the Niger Delta. Approximately 3 million households keep local chickens across the region, with an average flock size of 11 per household. These birds, though not reared with a specific commercial intent, provide a…
