Niger Delta Weekly Update for May 29 – June 04, 2022
This weekly update spotlights electoral violence in the Niger Delta. Elections in the Niger Delta are high stake affairs, often characterized by violence. According to data (see map below), over 240 incidents of electoral violence were reported in the region between January 2019 and April 2022, including more than 150 related fatalities. In the lead-up […]
PIND 2022 Q1 Progress Report
January – March 2022 This report highlights the achievements of PIND’s program interventions in the Niger Delta from January – March 2022 (Quarter 1, 2022), and provides relevant information about program management, lessons learned, and plans for the next quarter. The report demonstrates how PIND is driving change to ensure broadbased economic growth in the […]
PIND, Beyond Regular hosts one-day career mentorship event for young professionals in Port Harcourt
Media Contact: Chinwe Nnoham-Onyejekwe, PIND (Foundation for Partnerships Initiatives in the Niger Delta) +234 817.206.4628 | chichi@PINDfoundation.org The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) in collaboration with Beyond Regular and MTN organized a one-day breakfast mentorship and networking event for young people in the Niger Delta in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Saturday, […]
Call for Applications: Organizational Capacity Evaluation Consultants
CLOSED: PIND is seeking to engage two consultants with skills in institutional capacity assessment, evaluation and business development as well as financial/administrative capacity assessment to carry out an organizational capacity evaluation of Regional Development Committees (RDCs) of Chevron’s Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMOU) Communities, based on an Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) conducted in 2018. […]
Niger Delta Weekly Update for May 22-28, 2022
This weekly update spotlights insurgency and counter-insurgent violence in the Niger Delta with a focus on a resurgence of criminal insurgency in Abia and Imo State. According to data (see map below), criminal insurgency including targeted violence against government security person-nel caused over 300 fatalities in Abia and Imo State between January 2020 and March […]
PIND visits Cross River, Akwa Ibom, and Abia to support development plans, CSOs activities
Cross-section of Cross River State Planning Commission Directors and Officers engaged in Calabar to track implementation of the Cross River State Growth and Development Strategy (2018-2048 The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) conducted a week-long visit – from February 21 to 25 – to Cross River, Akwa Ibom, and the […]
Niger Delta Weekly Update for May 15-21, 2022
This edition of the weekly update spotlights political violence in the Niger Delta with a focus on politically motivated killings in Akwa Ibom State. According to data (see map below), over 50 incidents of election-related violence, including more than 25 related fatalities, were reported in Akwa Ibom State between January 2015 and March 2022. In […]
Requests for Proposals: Interventions to Mitigate the Herder-Farmer Conflict In the Niger Delta
CLOSED: The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) is seeking proposals from Civil Society Organisations to carry out conflict management interventions to address herders and farmers clashes in hotspot communities of Cross River, Delta, Edo and Ondo States under its Small grant project. The PIND’s small grants project supports CSOs to […]
Niger Delta Weekly Update for May 08-14, 2022
This edition of the weekly update spotlights vigilante and mob violence in the Niger Delta with a focus on vigilante related violence and killings in River State. According to data (see map below), vigilante related violence caused over 80 fatalities in Rivers State between January 2018 and March 2022. Recent data shows an upsurge in […]
PIND Advocates a Stop to Targeted Killing of Women and Girls for Ritualistic Purposes in the Niger Delta
PIND Foundation is partnering with the Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS), University of Port Harcourt, River States to advocate a stop to the targeted killing of women and girls for ritualistic purposes in the Niger Delta. On March 21, 2022, both organizations brought together 31 stakeholders from various organizations to analyze, brainstorm and […]
