CAPACITY BUILDING
PROJECT OVERVIEW:
OUR AIM:
To strengthen capacity of government, civil society, including business associations and service providers, for effective socio-economic engagement, inclusive governance for growth and peaceful co-existence in the Niger Delta.
OUR APPROACH:
- Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) of Regional Development Committees.
- Measuring the position and progress of the RDCs and opportunity for the development of action plans.
- Provide a basis for support in the next five years from 2020 – 2024.
TESTIMONIALS
AKANDU GODWIN, PIND-TRAINED AGRO-DEALER IN RIVERS STATE.
‘’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.’’
Stakeholder - PIND
“The findings from the study revealed some systemic constraints in the cocoa value chain. These include low productivity of farms arising from poor agricultural practices; predominance of older and ageing trees with low yields; absence of high-yielding seed varieties; inferior quality beans arising from poor post-harvest practices – leading to discount prices of Nigerian cocoa in the global market; and a lack of coordination among actors and functions within the value chain.”