This report aims to highlight the different forms and drivers of domestic violence in the Niger Delta, with a particular focus on Rivers state. Through greater awareness and engagement on the issue across sectors, community leaders, policy makers and practitioners work together to address the underlying drivers of domestic violence, as well as strengthen prevention…
This conflict brief provides a snapshot of the trends and patterns of organized criminality and political violence in the Niger Delta and examines the security and risk implications of organized crime on the upcoming 2019 Nigerian general elections in the region. DOWNLOAD Organized Crime in the Niger Delta: Implications for the 2019 Elections (6357 downloads…
This study examines the current structure of the fish feed sector, with a view to updating market players on how the sector works and what changing dynamics have occurred in the last five years in the various channels for fish feed supply into the Niger Delta. It goes further to identify major constraints and opportunities…
Since 2015, the Pro-Biafra movement has been making steady progress in raising awareness, and drawing sympathizers and supporters to its cause in the South East
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…
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 briefing outlines the evolution and transformation of street children in Cross River State, and traces the causal link between the prevalence of street children and rise in criminality and gang violence in the state.
From May through July 2015, with support from USAID/PIND, a team from LITE/Africa and ANEEJ program officers carried out 96 focus group discussions and 44 interviews with 845 community residents in 24 communities, 8 local government areas and four states of Cross River, Delta, Edo and Ondo States, all in the Niger Delta. This report…
This report by PIND Foundation, NDPI Foundation and Fund for Peace provides a state of play in Rivers State in the sensitive first few months since the national and gubernatorial elections in the state. This report provides background on the political environment, the role of the judiciary and security officials as well as the various…