Chairperson and Executive Director's Annual Message
Dear Friends and Partners, PIND’s work as a long-time, independent development resource in the Niger Delta has empowered the region’s communities, bestriding age, ability, education, gender, location, or status. Our programs deliver the financing, information, linkages, mindsets, skills, technologies, and tools that have proven to improve lives and livelihoods. The past few years have been momentous, and we look at them with amazement and fulfillment. Our world changed in 2020 and continues to feel the widespread challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in our workplace and activities, but we have met these challenges with unique innovations and continue to build on them. We creatively sustained personal relations and collaborated effectively with partners to deliver another year of solid performance in 2021. We leveraged NGN 10.85 billion/USD 26.46 million in investments from the public and private sectors that helped thousands of smallholder farmers and enterprises to implement good agricultural practices, technological innovations, and business upgrading solutions. This also facilitated over 10,000 new jobs in the agro-allied and renewable energy sectors through our commercially incentivized service providers.
Rick Kennedy
Tunji Idowu
Chairman, Board of Trustees, PIND.
Executive Director/Trustee, PIND.
In 2021, we reinvented ourselves to remain relevant as the world around us changed as a fallout of the pandemic and other emergent global issues. We seized opportunities with agility, raised the bar on our resolve to win, inspired ourselves from within and around us, and worked as One Team with a common mission. This helped us to deliver more value to the people that we serve, focus on sustaining the programs that work for the Niger Delta region, and test new program innovations that advance our mission of peace and prosperity. A notable example of this was how, through Sombreiro Kapital (our backed special purpose finance vehicle), we successfully pioneered tailor-made single-digit interest rate loans worth NGN 226
2021 ANNUAL REPORT
