BDSP Accreditation sets a standard benchmark by providing the leading mark of quality for the delivery of Business Development Services to the MSME sector. The certification could then be used by professionals with high growth potential, Banks and Financial Institutions, Individual Business Development Service Providers, Government agencies, BMO and beyond as a guarantee of standards.…
From March 21-23, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and the New Nigeria Foundation (NNF) hosted a three-day capacity-building workshop on the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). The event, which took place in Warri, Delta State, is one of the key…
In March and April 2022, PIND’s Peacebuilding Program organized capacity-building training for 32 (15 male, 17 female) participants from upland communities in Abia, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers States. PIND’s Integrated Peace and Development Unit (IPDU) trained the participants on volunteerism, leadership, conflict analysis, and identifying and reporting conflict incidents through the Early Warning Early Response…
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) held a capacity-building training for key youth stakeholders of Abiteye and Utonana both in Warri, Delta State from January 31 to February 1, 2022. The training was in line with the implementation of an intervention aimed at curbing an impending inter-communal crisis threatening the peaceful…
(Warri, Delta State) On December 6, 2021, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and DMG-Events, headquarted in Dubai, UAE commenced a concurrent one-week entrepreneurship training program in Warri, Delta State and Yenegoa, Bayelsa State for 50 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Renewable Energy sector, with similar training scheduled to…
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) on 23 February 2020, signed an MoU with the German international development agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to develop Nigeria’s human capital for improved access to renewable energy and energy efficiency in Nigeria through the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP).
PIND and Ford Foundation piloted the Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways (NDYEP) project in 2018 to develop models of youth training in which marginalised young people are trained in market-relevant skills and subsequently supported into sustainable jobs or enterprise.
Margaret Adedeji was always worried about plights of women in rural areas—for her, women who form the bulk of the underprivileged and the vulnerable deserve more than they are getting from the society. She believes in “empowering women to empower the whole community.” Hence, Adedeji started her Non-governmental Organization, Better Living Foundation (BLF) in Akure,…
The service provider’s model is one of PIND’s new market development approaches for boosting economic opportunities and reducing poverty for thousands of farmers and SMEs.
Join the conversation online as PIND share insights and lessons learned from using its model of human capacity development to foster sustainable economic opportunities in productive sectors, especially for the youth population and to enhance civil society role in promoting good governance aimed at poverty reduction priorities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. [tnc-pdf-viewer-iframe file=”https://pindfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PIND-NES24-Session-Program.pdf” width=”900″ height=”1100″…