Linking Partners for Niger Delta Development

August 5, 2016

Agrihack West Africa 2016 participants inspired at bootcamp

The 2016 Youth-Enabled Fish Farming AgriHack West Africa (YEFFA) continues with a week-long series of events. The CTA sponsored ICT4Ag intervention is being staged simultaneously in four West African cities of Ibadan, Warri, Lome, and Cotonou and hosted at technology hubs of Wennovation Hub, PIND, Woelab, and EtriLabs respectively.
August 4, 2016

GIZ and PIND partners with FG, Development Organizations on National Cassava Summit

On September 8th, 2016, GIZ and PIND, in collaboration with public and private sector partners, as well as the federal government, will host a one-day National Cassava Summit, with the theme “Towards a U.S.$5 billion Per Annum Cassava Industry in the Next Five Years.”
July 26, 2016

2016 Nigeria Agricultural Sector Policy Roadmap

Starting in 2010 – 2011, the Government of Nigeria, after years of benign neglect, began to reform the agriculture sector. To refocus the sector, the Government implemented a new strategy, the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA). In 2011-2016, the focus was on rebuilding a sector whose relevance had shrunk dramatically. That was reflected in the lack of lending to farmers by the financial system and the dramatic levels of food imports from across the world. That intervention, the ATA, served its core purpose of helping refocus Nigeria’s attention on agriculture
July 25, 2016

Netopps organises first Startup Sunday Anniversary Colloquium

After a year of monthly Sunday learning and working sessions of “Startup Sunday”, Netopps and NDLink decided to hold a review session to highlight some of the key points of learning discovered over the past year in a Colloquium titled Startup Sunday Port Harcourt: Collaboration for a Sustainable Ecosystem.
July 20, 2016

Insights for Creating Change in Complex Environments

After more than five years of work, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI) – which together focus on addressing socioeconomic issues in the Niger Delta – hired the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) to assess the organizations’ impacts since 2010