PIND and the DFID-funded Market Development Program in the Niger Delta (MADE) collaborated to produce a report on the impact on the recent naira devaluation and import tariffs on agriculture in the Niger Delta.
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…
Every year, we produce an annual report that reflects on the work we have done, the partnerships we have forged, the impact that has been made on this journey to improve incomes and build peace in the Niger Delta. The theme for this year’s is “Broadening Our Reach for Bigger Impact”. You can read the…
This is a two-page summary of our report on the impact of naira devaluation on select agricultural value chains in the Niger Delta. This report is a collaboration between The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and Department for International Development (DFID)’s Market Development (MADE) Program, and covers aquaculture, cassava, palm oil,…
Ogoniland has long been an area symbolic in the minds of people both inside and outside of the Niger Delta for its struggle against environmental degradation caused by resource exploitation. While both the Clean-up Project and the renewed amnesty programme are an attempt to restore security and economic viability to Ogoniland, multiple overlapping and intertwined…
This last quarterly report of the year 2016 contains data and analysis on impact of PIND’s programs in economic development, capacity building, peace building, and analysis and advocacy over the period. It also contains narratives of the quarter’s success stories from beneficiaries across different programs, as well as insights and lessons learned by program and…
As part of this event, the Brazil-Africa Institute in collaboration with IITA and AfDB will also sponsor 30 youth to be trained in Brazil this year
PIND Market Development Officer for Cassava Faith Soya has been traversing the region in her work to expand the use of cassava farming best practices promoted as part of the demonstration plot intervention. Here, she makes observations on the work done so far and shares her hopes for the direction of the project in months…
We did a World Earth Day event on the 24 April, 2017, at our Appropriate Technology Enabled Development (ATED) Center on the premises of our Economic Development Center in Warri, Delta State. It was a day full of interesting discussions with educationists, climate change activists, agriculturalists, students, and everyone in between. In this post, Florence…
Donor Coordination As we tackle poverty and insecurity in the Niger Delta, not only are local partnerships key but also the facilitation of regional cooperation through donor coordination. The multiplicity of donors and partners in the Niger Delta, many with projects, programmes, interests, structures, and procedures of their own increases the proliferation of initiatives and…