PIND is a Nigerian non-profit Foundation established in 2010 with initial funding by Chevron Corporation to support a portfolio of socio-economic development programs for Nigeria’s Niger Delta to improve the standards of living of communities in the region
A. PIND is a Nigerian non-profit Foundation established in 2010 with initial funding by Chevron Corporation to support a portfolio of socio-economic development programs for Nigeria’s Niger Delta to improve the standards of living of communities in the region.
B. PIND supports projects in collaboration with a diverse range of donor partners including bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, federal and state government agencies in Nigeria, private companies, and foundations.
C. With an overarching goal of increasing income and employment in the region, the Foundation has two distinct but interrelated program areas, and enablers. They are:
D. PIND has adopted the “Making Markets Work for the Poor” (M4P) approach to economic development. The M4P approach focuses on developing market systems by addressing underlying causes rather than symptoms of weak market performance.
E. Centre for Social Awareness, Advocacy and Ethics (CSAAE) is a not-for-profit-making organization launched in 2013, working in both urban and rural communities in the Niger Delta and Nigeria at large. The Centre pursues its mission by designing and implementing entrepreneurship programs that channel people into activities that develop effective leaders, cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurship, and, promote a culture of integrity. CSAAE has facilitated several successful innovative enterprise development interventions across Nigeria with technical support from it’s Baltimore, MD, USA office.
F. Both PIND and Centre for Social Awareness, Advocacy, and Ethics (CSAAE) have expressed interest in collaborating to carry out/implement interventions in developing the poultry value chain in all states of the Niger Delta Region.
G. This collaboration is expected to run for 12 months.
The Nigerian poultry industry is one of the most important and viable subsectors in the Nigerian agricultural sector. It provides means of livelihood for millions of poor Nigerians and a source of high-value investments for profit-driven entrepreneurs. The sector has been rapidly expanding in recent years and is currently one of the most commercialized subsectors in the Agricultural sector. It is estimated to be worth about N80 billion, comprising approximately 165 million birds which produced about 1.5 billion MT of eggs and 790,000 MT of chicken meat. From a market size perspective, Nigeria’s egg production is the largest in Africa (South Africa is the next largest at 540,000 MT of eggs) and it has the 2nd largest chicken population after South Africa’s 200 million birds.
PIND, in 2013 completed an assessment of the poultry value chain industry to understand the structure of the Niger Delta region’s poultry sector, identify key value chains actors, map out the market system, uncover constraints that inhibit the growth of the sector, identify pro-poor opportunities and to identify avenues where actions can be taken to facilitate the Niger Delta poultry industry to attain its economic potential in the production of chicken meat and eggs.
Between 2014 and 2017, based on the outcomes from the assessment, PIND worked extensively on the processing side of the value chain. PIND supported the establishment of three medium processing plants in the Delta, Bayelsa, and Ondo states. PIND also supported two out of the three to develop out-grower schemes to guarantee the supply of birds to the plants.
Having worked on the processing side of the value chain, in 2018, PIND did a rapid assessment of the poultry sector to have updated information and understanding of the sector and decided to expand its work by building the support market for service provision for poultry farmers.
Resulting from the decision, between 2018 and 2019, PIND worked in the poultry sector to support and promote the adoption of good poultry practices among farmers. PIND trained and mentored nine poultry service providers who worked with input companies and financial institutions to train and support about 2,700 poultry farmers across the region.
In 2020 and beyond, PIND will be expanding its outreach to more farmers in the poultry sector across the nine states of the Niger Delta working with different partners. Also, PIND intends to expand its good poultry practice intervention by onboarding poultry vaccine and drug manufacturing companies to improve the availability and quality of vaccines to commercial and smallholder poultry farmers.
Having recorded some significant progress and results in the interventions, PIND now intends to expand and deepen its activities in the Niger Delta with the overall objective of improving their livelihood and income through activities that stimulate economic activities.
The grant will support the CSAAE to address the key production constraints by improving farmers’ practices and facilitating effective linkage to input companies for quality and cheaper inputs.
The objective of this grant is for Centre for Social Awareness, Advocacy and Ethics (CSAAE) to act as an implementing partner (Co-Facilitator) for PIND’s Poultry Value Chain Project to help expand and deepen the interventions activities across the Niger Delta region.
CSAAE will build on the network and structures of service providers (PSPs & VLDs) in the Niger Delta states to ensure sustainable uptake of best practices, and facilitate linkages amongst stakeholders in the various sectors as well as on-board more partners to invest in the sector.
CSAAE would work with other partners to implement intervention activities geared towards improving productivity, linkages to business and technical support services, market linkages, and access to finance for poultry farmers as well as processors. This will involve the following:
At least 8000 poultry farmers across Niger Delta states are going to be targeted for this intervention as stipulated in the project work plan below.
Under this agreement, PIND and CSAAE agree to provide the following services:
PIND will:
CSAAE will:
Provide oversight and track the performance of the training of the poultry service providers that are aimed at improving the productivity of poultry farming practice. CSAAE will further monitor/facilitate the scale-up of these intervention activities in the Niger Delta states using the Market Systems approach and working with other implementing partners. This will include:
The total expected outreach under this co-facilitation is 8000 poultry farmers spread across the Niger Delta states. The scope of work above is broken down into key activities/deliverables in the table below. The entire project is expected to be completed within 12 months.
S/N | Description of activities | Duration | Associated Deliverables (Codes) |
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1. | Improve farmers’ productivity through access to information on good poultry practices and quality inputs. Identify, engage and onboard at least 4 input companies and obtain commitment. Facilitate the training of poultry farmers on good poultry practices and linkages to quality inputs through poultry service providers and VLDs. Work with market actors (PSPs and Input companies) to organize promotional and sensitization activities to improve awareness on the use of quality vaccines by poultry farmers. | 12 months | Output ● At least 4 input companies on-boarded and commitment obtained. Meeting report produced. ● At least 8,000 poultry farmers trained on good poultry practices or/and linked to quality vaccines, DoCs, and feed to improve their knowledge attitudes, and practices. ● 3 promotional/Linkages activities organized Key deliverables: ● 8,000 poultry farmers trained/supported with at least 1000 linked to market. ● 40% female beneficiaries. ● 3 promotional activities organized |
2. | Strengthen the support market for poultry farmers Mentor and oversee the activities of Poultry Service Providers (PSPs) and VLDs trained and supported by PIND to commercially provide quality and value-adding technical and business support services to poultry farmers in the Niger Delta. Support the PSPs to identify and engage large buyers (Egg buyers & Chicken processors), financial institutions, input, and insurance companies. This would also include supporting PSPs to develop out-grower schemes in partnership with input companies and chicken processors. | 12 months | Output ● At least one monitoring/ mentoring visit per state per quarter to PSPs/VLDs in each state to review activities and performance. ● Supported PSPs and village vaccinators reach 8,000 poultry farmers. At least 70% of adoption and 40% are female beneficiaries. ● Organize at least 1 capacity building workshop for PSPs & VLDs. ● Organize at least 2 knowledge sharing activities/workshops for PSPs & VLDs. ● 30 PSPs and 20 village vaccinators mentored and are offering services sustainably to poultry farmers leading to an increase in sales and income ● At least 6 new PSPs actively delivering/selling training and other services to poultry farmers. At least 4 input (DoC, Feed & Vaccine) new companies providing training/support to farmers in collaboration with PSPs & VLDs. ● Coordination of the quarterly reports of the PSPs and VLDs. |
3. | Facilitate finance and market for poultry farmers I. Identify and support 4 large buyers of chicken products in the Niger Delta. II. Engage large buyers and secure their commitments to offtake from poultry farmers. III. Work with PIND’s poultry team to facilitate the linkages between the large buyers and the farmers. IV. At least 1000 out of the 8,000 farmers reached should be linked to market (large buyers of poultry products). V. Support at least 500 poultry farmers with their loan applications. | 12 months | Output ● 4 large buyers engaged and commitment secured to off-take from poultry farmers. ● Link at least 1000 farmers to large buyers. ● Support 500 farmers with loan application Key deliverables: ● 4 large buyers engaged and commitment secured to off-take from poultry farmers. ● Link at least 1000 farmers to large buyers. ● 500 farmers supported with their loan applications. |
4. | Monitoring and Evaluation i. Adopt PIND’s Monitoring and Results Measurement (MRM) strategies using DECD standard for results measurement ii. Adopt PIND’s Monitoring and Evaluation system to track project performance and measure results. iii. Be responsible for managing the Intervention Guides (IG) in the Poultry sector in compliance with the DCED Standard. This would involve a periodic update of the IG with results from the field and assessments carried out. iv. Carry out periodic monitoring and evaluation of project activities. v. Carry out impact assessments of project beneficiaries using the DCED standard/PND’s M&E template/tools. vi. Manage PIND’s database system and provide adequate evidence of results and activities for the various sectors. | 12 months | Output ● Weekly activity reports ● Trip reports ● Monthly progress reports ● Quarterly report on project progress and outcomes. ● Assessment report. ● Regularly updated intervention guide ● Regularly updated database of farmers and other actors reached Indicators to measure: ● No of poultry farmers trained ● No of poultry farmers adopting ● No of poultry farmers with increased income. |
Under this Grant Agreement, CSAAE shall provide to PIND the following reports and documentation which are to be submitted periodically. Others can be requested as and when required including intervention-specific deliverables that may be set upon mutual agreement by both parties.
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CSAAE is a registered NGO in Nigeria; a 501(c3) nonprofit in the United States; an organization in special consultative status with the United Nations’ ECOSOC and former representative of African CSOs at the World Bank & IMF. The Centre carries out its operations from its head office in Nigeria, with technical support from its U.S. office