Pioneering New Models: Systemic Human Capacity Development and Wealth Creation – Lessons from the Niger Delta

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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″…

Youth Unemployment: PIND to train about 1, 000 youth in Niger Delta

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To address the growing rate of youth unemployment and underemployment in the Niger Delta, The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), a Non-Governmental Organisation intervening in the nine states of the Niger Delta, will be training about 1, 000 young men and women to be sustainably employed in the agricultural and Information…

Time is of the Essence: Preventing Election Violence in Rivers State

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This briefing examines the senatorial zoning system in Rivers and outlines the challenges and drivers of insecurity specific to each senatorial district going into the 2019 elections. Download report below: [wp_mb_plugin_download instance=”1″ password=”” buttonname=”Download” name=”Preventing Election Violence in Rivers State” datetime=”September 5, 2018 – 9:45 pm” other=”v.1.7 (PIND)” atagseo=”tag”]https://pindfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Conflict-Briefing-Preventing-Election-Violence-in-Rivers-State-FINAL.pdf[/wp_mb_plugin_download]

SUCCESS STORY: Friday Diyen – Making A Business of Being an Aquaculture Service Provider

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“My name is Diyen Friday, an Aquaculture Service Provider (ASP) trained by PIND. As an ASP, I carry on trainings on best practices on fish farming, starting from pond preparation to harvest stage and inclusive the NAEC (Nigeria Agricultural Enterprise Curriculum) training that talks about the business side. I train farmers in all of this’’.

SUCCESS STORY: P4P Restores Peace between Two Warring Communities.

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An over 50 year old land boundary dispute between two neighboring communities, Igbidi and Okpolo-Enweh in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State resurged into fresh conflict in June 2017. Both communities are predominantly food crop and fish farmers, with people coming from other towns to buy proceeds from the women.  The conflict brought everything to a halt, along with loss of lives and living on the edge of anxiety.

SUCCESS STORY: Veronica’s Story: From Subsistence To Commercial Farmer

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Aladinma Umukabia Ogodo Multi-purpose cooperative society is an association of over 200 women cassava farmers operating in Imo State. These women come together to help each other pursue economic prosperity for a simple reason: to take better care of their children. Veronica Njoku is the Vice President of the Association.

SUCCESS STORY: New Processing Technology Boosts Yield for Stanley

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Stanley Agbuebu has been a palm oil processor in Imo State for more than 20 years.
‘’I started from using the local mill’’ he recalls. ‘’We cook the palm fruits ten foot from the ground. From there we will call people that will carry it to the place that they are going to digest it. From digestion, we proceed to where we will process it and from there we will extract our oil. It is labor intensive, and the cost is too much’’.

SUCCESS STORY: CAPABLE NGO Wins £2-Million Grant, EXPANDS SERVICES

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When Youth Alive Foundation (YAF) relocated from Lagos to Akwa Ibom State, Uddy Okon, the Executive Director said it was like starting a new Niger Delta grown organization from the scratch. She had to recruit new staff who didn’t have enough skills to support projects. As she was weighing how to solve the problem, she learnt about the PIND Capacity Building for Local Empowerment (CAPABLE) institutional and technical training opportunity for regional non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like herself.