Using Market Systems Development Approach to Stimulate Livelihood Opportunities and Reduce Human Trafficking in Edo State

Trafficking in human beings, a form of modern-day slavery, involves the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain, and is a $150 billion global industry generated by forced economic exploitation of people for commercial sex, domestic work, or other economic activity. It is the result of forced economic exploitation of people for commercial…

Tools for Increasing Gender and Social Inclusion in Market Systems-Led Programmes

This’ lessons learned’ document seeks to encapsulate the hopes for the future, the concerns of the present and the experiences of the past, to broaden the worthy efforts of both the MADE I & II interventions on a larger scale that the Niger Delta region requires. Recommendations discussed in depth at the conclusion of this…

DCED Certifies PIND as an International Market Development Champion

DCED Certifies PIND as an International Market Development Champion

The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) has been recently certified by the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) as an international market development crusader. This is due to its adoption of the international standard procedure as recognized by the  DCED in its socio-economic development programs to address various economic challenges in…

PIND Partners with Nigerian Economic Summit for Session on Agricultural Development and Green Economy in the Niger Delta

PIND Foundation is partnering with the Market Development Program in the Niger Delta (MADE) and the Nigerian Economic Summit Group to produce a roadmap for the growth of agriculture in the Niger Delta at the Group’s annual summit slated to hold in Abuja on October 10-12, 2017,   Themed “Low Carbon Investment Opportunities for Economic…

Youth Employment

Agricultural Market Systems

The primary objective of the study is to set out the linkages between growth opportunities in agriculture and youth unemployment and skills gaps in Delta State. The intended outcome is to identify channels through which PIND can make an impact on youth unemployment via agriculture and agri-business. The assignment also intended to identify and prioritize…