This study examines the effects of the Nigerian currency’s devaluation and related government trade restriction policies on four key agricultural value chains in the Niger Delta region. These value chains—palm oil, cassava, aquaculture, and poultry—are focal points for the Chevron funded Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and the DFID funded Market…
Development International Incorporated (DAI) is implementing a £14 million Department for International Development (DfID), UK funded programme titled Market Development in the Niger Delta (MADE) in the nine states of Nigeria (Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers). Niger Delta is home to over 31 million people and generates all…
Market Development for the Niger Delta (MADE) is a market development programme implemented by DAI Europe (contract supplier) from 2013 to 2020. It seeks to improve the incomes of poor producers by generating economic growth in the non-oil sectors, across nine states of the Niger Delta Region. MADE uses the ‘making markets work for the…
The Market Development Programme in the Niger Delta (MADE) over its lifespan from inception in September 2013 to the end of implementation in February 2018. The report’s content includes an overview of progress in the final year of implementation (April 2017 – February 2018) as well as the cumulative results during the entire programme duration.…
MADE has an ambitious long-term target of increasing the income of 150,000 beneficiaries (with women being 50%) and lifting them out of poverty over the lifetime of the project. Working in a difficult environment, MADE is making steady progress towards achieving its longterm target. MADE is working under an increasingly suffocating operating environment characterized by…
April 2016 – March 2017 has been the third year of implementation of Market Development in the Niger Delta (MADE) Programme by the service provider Development Alternatives International (DAI). The Programme has made good progress in scaling up its activities from the previous year and has started some new interventions as planned. MADE consolidated its…
2015-16 was the second year of implementation of Market Development in the Niger Delta (MADE) programme by the service provider Development Alternatives International (DAI). It has made good progress in scaling up its activities from the previous year and in also starting some new interventions. MADE was able to consolidate its activities in five markets…
2014-15 was the first year of implementation of the Market Development in the Niger Delta (MADE) programme. It completed the pilot design phase in August 2014; the full implementation phase started in September 2014. This review covers the first seven months of implementation up to March 2015. The focus of this first seven months has…
In line with DFID requirements, Developing Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) Europe Ltd. has carried out a climate and environment assessment as part of the Business Case for the Niger Delta Market Development Project (MADE). The MADE project is designed to address increasing incomes in the Niger Delta by working in four to six different market systems…
MARKET Development for the Niger Delta (MADE) is a development programme that will use a ‘making markets work for the poor’ (M4P) approach to generate pro-poor and inclusive economic growth in the non-oil sectors of the Niger Delta Region (ND), including Agricultural and non-Agricultural value chains. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in…