Through Advocacy, PIND carries out initiatives to influence the government to put concrete long-term plans in place to see sustainability in its efforts to reduce poverty in the Niger Delta. As part of its mandate to strengthen partnerships with the government, PIND has worked to influence government expenditure, planning, and funding of projects.
Changing Systems to Change Lives
Providing actionable data to guide inclusive policies.
Ensuring evidence informs decisions that shape communities.
Connecting public and private actors for unified efforts.
Ensuring grassroots realities guide development priorities.
The Advocacy program works with and for:
To influence systems at scale, the program uses a range of practical advocacy tools:
This multi-layered approach ensures that change happens from both the top-down and the bottom-up.
In donor and private sector spending influenced
In government spending influenced
From 2020 to 2024, the Advocacy program has:
In 2025, the Advocacy program will focus on:
I encountered PIND in 2011 as the Delta State Commissioner for commerce, and I found the focus, the objective of PIND within the Niger Delta, as very purposeful and related to development. We are predominantly an oil-producing region in the Niger Delta. However, oil does not provide as much labor as you can see. Agriculture provides a higher percentage of jobs to our people. The whole essence of job creation is a better life for the people.
That’s what PIND is focusing on. PIND has chosen agriculture or agrobusiness as a focus area to get away from the magnet of oil and let people see the other side. And our first major contract was the issue of the fish feed meal in aquaculture. PIND can relate with the people and is research-based. The issue of fish feed meal cropped up. And they had to do research on what are the challenges that our farmers truly face–in order of ranking. They saw that feed was the biggest challenge. And a study was carried out that helped us in developing the blueprint for fish feed meals…modular fish feed meals. And that has been of great value to our people. They have helped us put up our agriculture policy. Our agriculture policy is one of the biggest things if you ask me because if you don’t have a proper policy, the policy expires. And we are one of the few states in the country that has an agricultural policy, and that has helped us tremendously. Sixty percent of our state is on land, but we have challenges with planning, and that led us to the land bank issue–to be able to provide land for those areas. Now that we are talking about the land bank, they are going to put strong professional backing and a proper structure to what the state is doing. So, as technical partners, PIND is very beneficial to us, exceedingly beneficial to us. I am also aware that they are playing in the Niger Delta, but I need to narrow it down to the benefits to Delta State, so we are happy. If you look at our gross domestic product (GDP), non-oil GDP is way higher at 52.3%, while oil GDP is 47.1%. That tells you the trajectory. Agriculture has grown.”
DSS DELTA STATE
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