A capacity building training was carried out for the disabled persons on how they can be part of the ongoing climate action.
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Current global waste generation levels are approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year, and are expected to increase to approximately 2.2 billion tonnes per year by 2025. This represents a significant increase in per capita waste generation rates, from 1.2 to 1.42 kg per person per day in the next fifteen years. However, global averages are broad estimates only as rates…
POOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SANITARY CONDITIONS IN YIKABO-POLO COMMUNITY
Yikabo-Polo Community is a small coastal community in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It is plagued heavily by waste pollution, and one can only imagine the unhealthy repercussions that comes with inhabiting such an environment. It worsens the case that they still practice open defecation.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM
Community Outreach program on National Climate Change Policy in Rives State. #Nigeria
TOWN HALL MEETING ON THE IMPACT OF BLACK SOOT IN RIVES STATE
The event was attended by forty-six (46) participants. The program of event include; Community dialogue on Environmental Pollution, Environmental sustainability awareness, Climate Change and Environmental Human Rights as a key note address delivered by the Community Development Chairman (CDC) who also doubles as the youth head/leader, a welcome address was delivered by the ED Prime Initiative for Green Development, Opening Speech by the…
CLIMATE STRIKE 2019
The Prime Initiative for Green Development Team joined the rest of the World in commemorating the Climate Strike Event. The aim of the event was to raise awareness on the plight of Climate Change. The event which started at 09:30 am with a 2hours CLIMATE WALK from Port Harcourt to Isaac-Boropark the event centre, To pass on the information to the participants, a…
Impact Evaluation: Reducing Conflict and Increasing Local Economic Activities
Over the past decade, Nigeria’s ethnically and religiously diverse Middle Belt has experienced recurrent eruptions of violence, much of which stems from conflicts over shared resources between farmer and pastoralist communities. These conflicts, which often include the destruction of property, crops, and livestock resources, directly undermine market development and hinder economic growth. From December 2012 to December 2016 Prime Initiative…
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Prime Initiative for Green Development (PIGD) in collaboration with Climate & Sustainable Network of Nigeria (CSDevNet), Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) Oxfam Nigeria and action2015 Nigeria coalition yesterday celebrated world Food Day 2015 in the Niger delta region of Nigeria. The event which took place at Omuse Community Hall, Elele Town, Rivers State sensitized the community on the unlimited opportunities…
CLIMATE MARCH 2015
Pre-COP21 Climate City-wide March round Port Harcourt, South-south Nigeria, organized by Prime Initiative for Green Development (PIGD) ..