The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) is holding Awareness Creation Workshops on the Host Community Development Trust (HCDT) aspect of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) in five Niger Delta states which started on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. The workshops will be in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Ondo, and Rivers States. Each…
The Bridges Project is a collaborative intervention by The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and the Ford Foundation to effectively implement Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act 2021(PIA). The main goal of this project is to support and complement the regulatory proposals of the PIA while ensuring the participation of all stakeholders, particularly…
PIND signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs (MNDA) in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday, September 15, 2022. The MoU signing, held during the National Council on Niger Delta (NCND) meeting, solidifies PIND’s partnership with the MNDA to develop a regional peacebuilding infrastructure that would contribute to efforts…
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta and its United States counterpart, the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI) Foundation, on Friday, September 16, 2022, paid a courtesy visit to Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States of America, Dr. Uzoma Emenike in New York. It was an opportunity to highlight PINDs activities and impact…
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) was at the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, which took place from September 13-27, 2022. At a side event organized by Devex, an online global development company, PIND’s Executive Director, Tunji Idowu, discussed how PIND is facilitating sustainable development in…
The Edo State government, in collaboration with PIND, organized the Edo State Access to Arable Land Workshop on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at the New Festival Hall, Government House, Benin, Edo State. The event served as a forum for key stakeholders in the agriculture sector to deliberate on how farmers in the State can gain…
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…
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…
’I am Dr. Nnnena Chikezie, the Permanent Secretary and the Executive Secretary of Abia State Planning Commission. Our collaboration with PIND in developing the Abia State long term plan was very demanding. It was equally a learning process and it gave us confidence that we were dealing with an organization that has strong technical strength to deliver. Even with the COVID-19, PIND kept pushing on, encouraging the State to go with the project. PIND gave us a project manager that would not stop until he got the target achieved. We had to adapt to the new normal and because there was every need to deliver the project on PIND’s part, they supported us in every way.
On 7 April 2021, the Abia State 30-Year Long Term Development Plan (2020-2050) developed by PIND Foundation with support from the Abia State Government was launched by the Deputy Governor of Abia State at the Abia State Government House in Umuahia, Abia State with representatives of PIND Foundation and State Government officials present. PIND’s support…