PIND through its Appropriate Technology Enabled Development (ATED) program is partnering with Lagos-based ICT innovation center Wennovation Hub, as well as e-TriLabs and Woelab (ICT innovation centres in Benin and Togo respectively) on the Youth-Enabled Fish Farming AgriHack (YEFFA) project, which aims to support ICT innovations and entrepreneurship in agriculture by youth. Also dubbed AgriHack…
Reports of cult violence have increased sharply in the Niger Delta since the beginning of 2014. This has been particularly salient in Rivers State, where the violence has been spread over a wide geographic region. DOWNLOAD
Transition of gubernatorial power has historically been fraught with violence in Bayelsa. Now, in 2015, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed 5th December 2015 for the Bayelsa State gubernatorial elections, and there are signs that conflict issues are emerging once again. This report details analysis of the situation in Bayelsa State based on…
This quarter, PIND’s Business Linkages recorded a milestone in its work to improve support markets for small businesses and the capacity of small businesses with whom we work. We also worked with local partners to secure funding for the deployment of 1,200 biosand filters to the Dodo River Community in Bayelsa State, and began work…
The goals of this study are to inform future potential NDPI and PIND programming in the Niger Delta power sector through investigating, analyzing, and drawing conclusions on the sector’s fundamental dynamics in relation to the national grid and formal privatization context, off grid solutions, and self-generation. Where might there be opportunities for new approaches, business…
This study examines The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta’s (PIND’s) aquaculture pilot project at the Ufuoma Fish Farm in Warri, to determine how the project currently contributes to social stabilization, ways in which it might increase stabilization, and potential opportunities for enhancing stabilization beyond the aquaculture program. To answer these questions, Mercy…
In 2009, after over three years of intensive militancy activities and violence in the Niger Delta which saw the nation’s oil production capacity drop to an all-time low, President Yar’Adua declared the Presidential Amnesty Programme. The programme provided amnesty from prosecution for ex-militants in return for the surrender of arms, and ongoing financial incentives to…
“The forum provided the opportunity and the platform to know what the stakeholders were doing and how best to address Nigeria’s election violence issues,” […]
This study on the catfish feed market in Delta State was carried out to get a better understanding of the supply and demand sides for feed, whether farmers were able to easily access feed and the range of factors affecting the overall cost of feed as an input into the production of catfish. View full…
This past quarter so progress in pro-poor economic development interventions with further scale-up on the successful demonstration pond pilot project with new ponds in Warri and progress on an outgrower scheme for cassava farmers in Edo, Delta and Ondo States. The team also worked to support business support service providers operating in the Niger Delta…