Through P4P we seek to identify, establish, and strengthen grass-root conflict resolution initiatives within the Niger Delta region to promote a more enabling, integrated, and peaceable environment conducive for economic growth and development. Learn more
CAPACITY FOR PEACEBUILDING
Partners for Peace members hold up their official
stickers at the launch of the network in Port
Harcourt, Rivers State
AND AFTER STATE ELECTIONS
Partners for Peace members at a break-out session
during a conflict sensitivity workshop
P4P is made up of members from different age
groups and walks of life united in their
commitment to peace in their communities
For many decades, the Niger Delta has been embroiled in a cycle of conflict that has ravaged the region and has had severe effects on livelihoods. Driving these conflicts are myriad issues like competition over resources, crises in leadership, the absence of credible dispute resolution mechanisms, militancy, oil theft and environmental degradation. These issues have impacted negatively on economic growth and development; they have succeeded in devastating communities, destroying their various sources of livelihood, leaving inhabitants impoverished and vulnerable, and keeping the region in a cesspool of instability and violent conflict.
PIND’s peace-building program is aimed at achieving the greater goal of regional and lasting peace in the Niger Delta. Through this program, we are strengthening peace-building initiatives that enable sustainable economic development.
To achieve these objectives, PIND employs a number of strategies and activities to enable the Peace Building Program to provide support to our economic development program while also working on the drivers and root causes of conflicts in the region through innovative stakeholder partnerships and social marketing. These strategies include:
- Building capacity of peace-building actors
- Enabling economic development
- Promoting synergy and cooperation among actors in the region
- Strengthening PIND’s capacity for peace-building both in its projects and within the organization as a whole.
- Promoting a more dynamic and holistic peace-building approach
Under the Peace-building Program, PIND implements projects that promote information sharing, collaboration, and synergy among peace-building actors in the region as a whole. These projects help monitor changes in knowledge, attitudes, and practices that demonstrate a communal or regional leaning towards more participatory and inclusive processes in local governance. They also encourage acceptance of peaceful approaches and deliberative dialogue processes instead of violent conflict, monitor improved awareness of the drivers and impacts of conflict on peaceable livelihoods and also measure the impact of projects on conflicts.
The Integrated Peace and Development Unit (IPDU) is PIND’s response to the rapidly changing conflict dynamics in the Niger Delta. The Unit promotes collaboration and synergy amongst community
stakeholders, local, regional, and national actors in both public and private sectors to address conflict early warning and response with particular focus on youths.
Our IPDU is made up of three components with interdependent functions:
- A Research component that distributes all our studies on conflict in the region and helps plug all knowledge gaps on conflict in the Niger Delta in the donor community and government stakeholders.
- A Capacity Building component that provides training based on identified needs
- An Applied Learning component that implements projects with local and international stakeholders
The P4P Prevent Team works to address early stage conflicts throughout the Niger Delta before they worsen. The Prevent Team has addressed 107 incidents of early conflict between 2016 and June 2017
- Improving Early Reporting on Conflict during Elections and Beyond
- During the 2015 general elections, our IPDU established the Community Stakeholders Network (CSN), which was an early warning and early response system in 18 selected LGAs. The network was made up of trained volunteers, each of them private and public sector community leaders and security personnel based each of the selected LGAs. The team worked with Community Life Project (CLP) to develop a GSM-based online platform with the capacity to receive text messages and make voice calls from multiple phone lines. These trained volunteers sent conflict early warning messages to a dedicated SMS hub. The SMS also led to responses from appropriate security forces and INEC officials.
- The CSN has now become the Prevent Team, a subset of the P4P which uses the SMS platform for its work in early warning on conflict and early conflict mitigation.
- Supporting Local Peace Actors with Capacity and Networks
- We helped establish the Partners for Peace (P4P) Network to serve as a network of private and public sector peacebuilders working in each of the nine Niger Delta States who work to respond to conflict in their communities. Each state chapter is independently-managed and organizes its own interventions, while we support the network members with technical support and capacity building trainings. In 2016, our Peacebuilding team supported 95 new and/or scaled-up interventions in peacebuilding and conflict resolution, resulting in a remarkable increase in conflicts being resolved by P4P Network members. Letting P4P grow on its own steam has been key to its growth; the Network has grown from 120 members at its start in 2013 to over 5,000 members from across all nine states of the Niger Delta region by June 2017, creating their own sub-chapters in some communities and even forming their own partnerships with relevant state actors as they deem fit. For more on P4P, visit their website p4p-nigerdelta.org
- Providing Analytical Framework for Peace and Security Working Groups’ Deliberations
- The NDPSWG is a state-level working group comprising of stakeholders working to mitigate conflict. The object of the NDPSWG is to analyze trend and patterns of conflicts and strategize on how to coordinate resources to address conflict issues. In the reporting period, the Peacebuilding team facilitated the Niger Delta Peace and Security working groups (NDPSWG) in Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Cross River States. The working groups had expanded to 3 other states since March 2017, and have enlarged its stakeholder groups to include representatives of security institutions and government agencies.
Peacebuilding Map
PIND is becoming known as a repository of data on conflict in the Niger Delta, and this is due in no small part to the P4P Peacebuilding Map. Populated with conflict information from PIND’s peace actors in all nine Niger Delta states, this interactive map compiles the shared knowledge of the wider peacebuilding community on the holistic patterns of conflict risk and the locations of peacebuilding actors working to address those risk factors. You can see the map here. Below is a short video on how the map works:
Through the Peace Building program, PIND has organized Peace and Security Working Groups made up of civil society and public sector stakeholders that meet every quarter in a Niger Delta state, in Abuja and in Washington DC to study conflict trends generated from the peace building map and proffer solutions to strengthen conflict mitigation efforts based on the information provided in the map.
This unit responds to emerging threats, identifies and mobilizes the appropriate actors and resources via three interdependent components – research, capacity building, and applied learning. Learn more
Through this project, PIND boosts relations with communities surrounding the Economic Development Center (EDC) in Warri, Delta State, by promoting peace and helping identify opportunities that bring a functional means of livelihood. Learn more
I am Enwerem Corlivics, the Imo State coordinator for [the] P4P [Network] in the Niger Delta. The PIND trainings that I have attended, particularly resource mobilization, have impacted much on my business and livelihood.
My name is Uduak Etuk; I’m from Ekono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Currently, I’m a woodworker. I graduated with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Administration. After my NYSC (National Youth Service Corps), I have worked for several corporate bodies as an administrator, but I never... Read More
My name is Uduak Etuk; I’m from Ekono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Currently, I’m a woodworker. I graduated with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Administration. After my NYSC (National Youth Service Corps), I have worked for several corporate bodies as an administrator, but I never saw the satisfaction in the job, so I had to stop. Then I picked up a form to start my post-graduate diploma, but along the line, there was no money for school fee, so I paused.
They [conflicts] reflect differences in values, clashes of interests, and the ensuing tensions between the various, different groupings. It is not the conflicts per se that is the problem, but the manner in which they are resolved…I didn’t know anything about conflict management. But ever since I started attending the... Read More
They [conflicts] reflect differences in values, clashes of interests, and the ensuing tensions between the various, different groupings. It is not the conflicts per se that is the problem, but the manner in which they are resolved…I didn’t know anything about conflict management. But ever since I started attending the P4P [Network] trainings, I now step up to get involved in conflict situations. In my community— Ossah, Umuahia North LGA, Abia State—there was a boundary dispute, and with the knowledge acquired from the P4P [Network] training on conflict management, I mitigated this conflict.
With strong field work experience garnered over the years as a member of the Conflict Prevent Committee of the Partners for Peace in the Niger Delta (P4P) Imo State Chapter and the Oguta LGA sub-chapter, I have navigated the nooks and crannies communities, building community and family peace and resolving... Read More
With strong field work experience garnered over the years as a member of the Conflict Prevent Committee of the Partners for Peace in the Niger Delta (P4P) Imo State Chapter and the Oguta LGA sub-chapter, I have navigated the nooks and crannies communities, building community and family peace and resolving conflicts across Imo State and some Niger Delta states
After participating in PIND’s training on EWER (early warning and early response), Amamogiran set up an early response subgroup in the five (5) communities that his organization works with Amatu 1, Amatu 2, Bilabiri 1, Bilabiri 2, Bisangbene in Ekeremor LCA of Bayelsa State. The subgroups make use of the... Read More
After participating in PIND’s training on EWER (early warning and early response), Amamogiran set up an early response subgroup in the five (5) communities that his organization works with Amatu 1, Amatu 2, Bilabiri 1, Bilabiri 2, Bisangbene in Ekeremor LCA of Bayelsa State. The subgroups make use of the EWER system to get timely information and mitigate conflict quickly before it escalates. This has greatly helped in reducing conflict incidences in those communities.
"During training by the P4P [Network], I was taught how to use various methods to address conflicts in my communities. When I became the CSO, I tried to use force to end the conflicts, but it was not working. Then, I introduced a football competition. I give a little token... Read More
“During training by the P4P [Network], I was taught how to use various methods to address conflicts in my communities. When I became the CSO, I tried to use force to end the conflicts, but it was not working. Then, I introduced a football competition. I give a little token to the first, second, and third winning teams. And after that, I will gather both winners and losers back to the community and tell them that, “You are one (1), both winners and losers.” I teach them how to be together, be their brother’s keepers. And they go home very happy.”
My name is Blessing Samuel. I live in Rivers State. I got to know about the NDYEP training project through a friend who happened to be a member of the Rivers State Youth Empowerment ministry. Before I joined the PIND training program, I had no idea whatsoever with anything that... Read More
My name is Blessing Samuel. I live in Rivers State. I got to know about the NDYEP training project through a friend who happened to be a member of the Rivers State Youth Empowerment ministry. Before I joined the PIND training program, I had no idea whatsoever with anything that has to do with aquaculture. In short, I felt when you talk about fisheries or talk about poultry, It had to do with farmers who are from the rural villages. The PIND empowerment training program has changed a lot of things for me.
My Name is Tari Jackson. I have been living in Fish Town since 2002. And, in 2003, I started the fish drying business, which we send to Yenagoa. We are always drying fish every day. So, when we heard that there is a cold room here in Fish Town and... Read More
My Name is Tari Jackson. I have been living in Fish Town since 2002. And, in 2003, I started the fish drying business, which we send to Yenagoa. We are always drying fish every day. So, when we heard that there is a cold room here in Fish Town and this is really going to help us a lot because sometimes our fishes get spoiled because there is no firewood to keep it from getting spoiled and as a result of that, we lose a lot of money…
My name is Kehinde Emmanuel Tayo, CEO of Vectis Business Option, a company built on the promises of renewable energy to bring power to the people of this great country. Our quest to solve energy challenges has brought us into the mini-grid-energy space to provide power for the people in... Read More
My name is Kehinde Emmanuel Tayo, CEO of Vectis Business Option, a company built on the promises of renewable energy to bring power to the people of this great country. Our quest to solve energy challenges has brought us into the mini-grid-energy space to provide power for the people in the underserved and unserved communities of rural communities in Nigeria. Our partnership with PIND has brought about this relationship where we are able to reach out to more communities in the coastal region to provide them energy access to power.
’Training these farmers, they always complain. Some of them say,” We want to expand, how do you come to our aid’’? So, we package them together in groups in clusters. And, as I am talking to you right now, they are being taken to the CBN under the Anchor Borrowers... Read More
’Training these farmers, they always complain. Some of them say,” We want to expand, how do you come to our aid’’? So, we package them together in groups in clusters. And, as I am talking to you right now, they are being taken to the CBN under the Anchor Borrowers programs so that it can help them to maintain their plantation. It can help them to expand their farms. They are following their CBN processes; they have been introduced, they have been trained by DDI (a PIND-trained BSP), interviewed, asked to package their papers. And they have done all those things. They are now feeling the impact of PIND.
My name is Peter Wealth. I am from Akwa Ibom State, married with four (4) children. I am into movie production, which has been a long-time passion since I was 16. I heard about PIND for the first time from Filmatura Film Production (a PIND-trained BSP (business service provider)], who... Read More
My name is Peter Wealth. I am from Akwa Ibom State, married with four (4) children. I am into movie production, which has been a long-time passion since I was 16. I heard about PIND for the first time from Filmatura Film Production (a PIND-trained BSP (business service provider)], who did several trainings for a group of us on movie making, music video, photography, and cinematography.
My name is Nzeota Prince Uche, from Abia State, married to a lady from Osun State, and we have three (3) children. I am a poultry farmer and poultry service provider too. I am also into fish and snail farming. I have known PIND for about four (4) years now.... Read More
My name is Nzeota Prince Uche, from Abia State, married to a lady from Osun State, and we have three (3) children. I am a poultry farmer and poultry service provider too. I am also into fish and snail farming. I have known PIND for about four (4) years now. When I came to PIND, I was doing like 50-100 broilers.
I am Akandu Godwin from Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. I deal on agro-input, mostly fertilizer and agrochemicals. I received some orientation and training from PIND (on palm oil best management practices) in 2018—2019 and started officially partnering with them. Since I met with PIND in the first place, they broadened my... Read More
I am Akandu Godwin from Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. I deal on agro-input, mostly fertilizer and agrochemicals. I received some orientation and training from PIND (on palm oil best management practices) in 2018—2019 and started officially partnering with them. Since I met with PIND in the first place, they broadened my knowledge. They added value to my business, so it’s not just to tell a customer, “please buy fertilizer.” Now, I can tell them the right fertilizer to buy and the method of application, and those things have increased my output.
“I am Anthony Akinmade, a farmer from Ondo State, and also one (1) of the agro-dealers that PIND trained through Saro Company in farming cocoa, farming in palm oil, farming in cassava. I have five (5) to seven (7) people that I have, in turn, trained on how to use... Read More
“I am Anthony Akinmade, a farmer from Ondo State, and also one (1) of the agro-dealers that PIND trained through Saro Company in farming cocoa, farming in palm oil, farming in cassava. I have five (5) to seven (7) people that I have, in turn, trained on how to use the machines to prune cocoa trees, to clear, to apply chemical, and different types of chemicals to be applied, and they have joined me, and we are working together. If I get some little job at a farm, I call them so we can go together. Right now, I have maybe 5000 farmers I have trained that I know with their numbers, their names, with their villages. At least one (1) of them calls me per day. I go to one (1) farm and send my boys (co-trainers) to the other villages. We go there, we negotiate fees, and it’s been moving fine as we are getting more profits and more gain from it. PIND has added so much income for me. They (PIND and Saro Company) trained us, and we went outside there and told some people, and through us, they have gained so many things too”.
I am Mrs. Vivian Dada, a fish smoker in Madangho coastal community, Warri South local government area, Delta State. Before, I used the local drum to smoke my fish, and it gave me a lot of stress. When they did a demonstration of the Chorkor oven to us, I bought... Read More
I am Mrs. Vivian Dada, a fish smoker in Madangho coastal community, Warri South local government area, Delta State. Before, I used the local drum to smoke my fish, and it gave me a lot of stress. When they did a demonstration of the Chorkor oven to us, I bought five (5) of them for my business. The Chorkor oven has really helped me save money because it does not consume a lot of firewood, it does not stress me, and it does not take a lot of time to dry the fish.
My name is Alfred Ukane from Delta State. My journey started in 2013 when I was a farm manager in a fish farm for three (3) years, and after that time, I decided to move on to start doing my own business in agriculture. At the time, I was, literally,... Read More
My name is Alfred Ukane from Delta State. My journey started in 2013 when I was a farm manager in a fish farm for three (3) years, and after that time, I decided to move on to start doing my own business in agriculture. At the time, I was, literally, just running about with no structure, nothing. One (1) day, somebody introduced me to PIND.
It (the loan) has helped me a lot in my expansion because there were things that I needed to get, some equipment I needed to get…then I needed to get irrigation materials because the main thing involved in farming on an expanse of land is irrigation. If you have proper... Read More
It (the loan) has helped me a lot in my expansion because there were things that I needed to get, some equipment I needed to get…then I needed to get irrigation materials because the main thing involved in farming on an expanse of land is irrigation. If you have proper irrigation, you can use as much land as possible…the poultry area had to employ three new people, two males and one female “
Thank God another door has opened to me…before now, I was just engaged in tailoring…being a tailor is good but when I came to know about solar and started doing this installation, more funds are coming…. I now pay more bills which I couldn’t afford before, put more food on... Read More
Thank God another door has opened to me…before now, I was just engaged in tailoring…being a tailor is good but when I came to know about solar and started doing this installation, more funds are coming…. I now pay more bills which I couldn’t afford before, put more food on the table which I also couldn’t do before…it has helped a lot, and it has doubled the standard of my living. “
The Warri MSP has done great. You can find out too that if an Ijaw has an occasion, Itsekiris will join them. The people are now living together and doing things together. I can assure you that if we continue like this, the sky will be our limit. Because the... Read More
The Warri MSP has done great. You can find out too that if an Ijaw has an occasion, Itsekiris will join them. The people are now living together and doing things together. I can assure you that if we continue like this, the sky will be our limit. Because the rate at which we are relating and communicating to each other shows that the future will be bright as far as conflict management is concerned.”
One of the most important first term achievements/deliverables which history will give you much respect for is the 30-year Growth and Development Strategy for Cross Rivers State. The document is so good that it can be a standard/reference point for all States and the Federal Government of Nigeria. You should... Read More
One of the most important first term achievements/deliverables which history will give you much respect for is the 30-year Growth and Development Strategy for Cross Rivers State.
The document is so good that it can be a standard/reference point for all States and the Federal Government of Nigeria. You should be very proud of it, show it off and use it. “
"Before, we can get like 10,000 Naira from one plot after harvesting but now, because of the improved variety of cassava, one can make around 25,000 – 30,000 Naira from one plot. I have 4 kids with my mother and brothers and others…at least we have been feeding very well... Read More
“Before, we can get like 10,000 Naira from one plot after harvesting but now, because of the improved variety of cassava, one can make around 25,000 – 30,000 Naira from one plot. I have 4 kids with my mother and brothers and others…at least we have been feeding very well now…I can send my children to private school . I can treat them very well and I can pay for all those things because of this improvement.”
"Now that we have solar power, the amount of noise pollution by generators is reduced. Situations where you want to sleep but can’t because of the noise from your neighbors’ generator, that doesn’t happen anymore... it has been a long time we have seen something like this …we don’t see... Read More
“Now that we have solar power, the amount of noise pollution by generators is reduced. Situations where you want to sleep but can’t because of the noise from your neighbors’ generator, that doesn’t happen anymore… it has been a long time we have seen something like this …we don’t see such often here so we are happy and grateful.”
"Following the CAPABLE trainings, my organization’s efforts at transforming life of women in rural areas have started yielding results. Besides serving as a mentor to others, it has trained and empowered women in soap making, batik and climate friendly fish smoking. Today, because of our organizational capacity, we have been... Read More
“Following the CAPABLE trainings, my organization’s efforts at transforming life of women in rural areas have started yielding results. Besides serving as a mentor to others, it has trained and empowered women in soap making, batik and climate friendly fish smoking. Today, because of our organizational capacity, we have been able to access the status of co-facilitator in promoting access to new smoking technology to women fish smokers in riverine areas.”
I came in contact with PIND a few months ago. But before then, I had been hearing about their impacts across the Niger delta. And I have seen their support for women in the Niger delta. When you tell people that you are a woman in construction, people wonder, but... Read More
I came in contact with PIND a few months ago. But before then, I had been hearing about their impacts across the Niger delta. And I have seen their support for women in the Niger delta. When you tell people that you are a woman in construction, people wonder, but with the support of PIND I am more confident in my work since I know what I am doing.”
"We started adopting the best management practices in 2018 when a team from PIND introduced it to us. As soon as we now went into pruning and the best management practices, we were having more yield. This period, we have about 250 liters per week because I have more bunches... Read More
“We started adopting the best management practices in 2018 when a team from PIND introduced it to us. As soon as we now went into pruning and the best management practices, we were having more yield. This period, we have about 250 liters per week because I have more bunches where before it wasn’t up to 50 liters. There is increase in production, so the staff strength increased so as to be able to cover the entire farm. In 2018, I had just five (5) workers, in 2019 seven (7) workers and in early 2020 now, I have fifteen (15) workers.”