An energy access model for off-grid communities in the Niger Delta
Electricity is a major recipe for development and sustainable growth. The provision of electricity and affordable energy has been a major challenge to communities in the Niger Delta for as far back as the earliest beneficiation of natural resources within the region. An analysis of the International Energy Agency’s 2014 Energy Indicators statistics for Nigeria, […]
Meghan Curran of Acumen Fund visits PIND, Warri Office – Delta State
On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, the West African Director of Acumen Fund, Meghan Curran visited PIND warri office, alongside Acumen’s Associate Director, Toyin Olubake, and representatives of NIRSAL (Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending) to explore collaborative and investment opportunities with PIND. Highlights were on PIND’s market development interventions of Aquaculture and Oil Palm. […]
PIND Impact Assessment Promoting Peace in the Niger Delta 2012-2018
This report is a multi-year impact assessment that measures the second and third-order effects of PIND’s peacebuilding program. PIND’s peacebuilding strategy is to catalyze and leverage local capacity for early warning, conflict management, and peacebuilding across the Niger Delta to create an enabling environment for sustainable, broad-based economic development. From the initial scoping exercise in […]
PIND 2019 Q1 Niger Delta Conflict Trends Report
There was an increase in conflict risk and lethal violence in the Niger Delta in Q1 2019 (See page 2). The Niger Delta peace and conflict landscape underwent significant changes in the first quarter of 2019, compared to the third and fourth quarters of 2018. According to data uploaded to the P4P Peace Map (www.p4p-nigerdelta.org), […]
Characteristics of the Nigerian Cocoa Industry – FACTSHEET
Within 5 years, the cocoa industry in the Niger Delta will be characterized by improved linkages and communicaons between smallholder farmers and the processors and exporters, with common mutual incenves. The industry will have a strong supporng services providers delivering the inputs, extension, and technologies that smallholder farmers need to upgrade leading to increasing producvity […]
The Cross River International Collaboration & Investors Summit 2019
The Cross River International Collaboration & Investors Summit 2019 is designed to develop business partnerships between bi-lateral/multi-lateral development partners, investors and the government of Cross River State in the fields of infrastructure, agriculture, health, education, governance and finance. A key development at the summit will be the the launch of the state’s 30-year Growth and […]
Exploring short, medium and long term plans for improving productivity of the Nigerian cocoa sector
Great opportunities exist in the Nigerian cocoa sector but persistent low productivity, absence of institutional control and administrative inefficiencies in the sector are resulting in low profitability for farmers. The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND Foundation) will be organizing a Cocoa Stakeholders’ Roundtable in Akure, Ondo State on May 23, 2019 […]
PIND visits Abia Governor, to support long-term development planning of the State
PIND Foundation and other international development partners including the European Union Niger Delta Support Programme 4 on May 16, 2019 paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Governor of State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, represented by Deputy Governor Rt. Honorable Ude Oko Chukwu, at the Abia State Government House, Umuahia to congratulate the Government for coming […]
The Chorkor Oven; Changing the lives of fish smoking women in the Niger Delta riverine communities
PIND Foundation unveils strategy to support Abia State’s long-term development planning
Representatives of the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND Foundation) and other international development partners including the European Union Niger Delta Support Programme 4 on May 16, 2019 paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Governor of State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, represented by Deputy Governor Rt. Honorable Ude Oko Chukwu, at the […]
