PIND’s Advocacy program goes beyond raising awareness—it helps shape the policies, systems, and strategies that drive real change in the Niger Delta. By combining research, partnerships, and strategic dialogue, this program supports inclusive, sustainable development and lasting peace across the region.
Strengthening Foundations for Sustainable Development
Building financial and operational systems for sustainability.
Equipping communities to govern responsibly.
Connecting sectors for shared development goals.
Supporting funding and project management skills.
This program reaches a wide variety of stakeholders, including:
At the heart of Capacity Building is PIND’s Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) Tool — a framework for growth and self-assessment.
Once gaps are identified, PIND supports each organization with a customized Capacity Development tools which are:
Accrued in savings by community users of PIND-facilitated renewable energy solutions
In government spending influenced
From 2020 to 2024, the PIND’s Capacity program has:
In 2025, the Capacity Building program will:
‘’Training these farmers, they always complain. Some of them say,” We want to expand, how do you come to our aid’’? So, we package them together in groups in clusters. And, as I am talking to you right now, they are being taken to the CBN under the Anchor Borrowers programs so that it can help them to maintain their plantation. It can help them to expand their farms. They are following their CBN processes; they have been introduced, they have been trained by DDI (a PIND-trained BSP), interviewed, asked to package their papers. And they have done all those things. They are now feeling the impact of PIND.’’

PIND-TRAINED AGRO-DEALER IN RIVERS STATE.
“The findings from the study revealed some systemic constraints in the cocoa value chain. These include low productivity of farms arising from poor agricultural practices; predominance of older and ageing trees with low yields; absence of high-yielding seed varieties; inferior quality beans arising from poor post-harvest practices – leading to discount prices of Nigerian cocoa in the global market; and a lack of coordination among actors and functions within the value chain.”

- PIND
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