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.

PIND Embarks On Project To Address Youth Unemployment In The Niger Delta

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The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) today commenced the dissemination of key findings of a study it undertook recently on ‘Identifying Pathways to Youth Employment in the Niger Delta: An Analysis of Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States’.  To seek innovative ways of addressing the growing rate of youth unemployment and…

Identifying Pathways to Youth Employment in the Niger Delta: An Analysis of Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States

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PIND and its partner, Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI), conducted a labour market assessment for youth employment in Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States, to map the community of stakeholders concerned with youth unemployment within Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States, showing their key constraints and explaining national and subnational economic, demographic, and social trends impacting…