Where we work
From the creeks of the Niger Delta to communities across Nigeria.
We work where environmental and economic challenges hit hardest, and where communities are ready to lead the response.
01Where it starts
Port Harcourt is home.
Our headquarters and largest team are in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It gives us deep experience in the Niger Delta’s riverine, coastal and oil affected communities, one of the most environmentally affected regions in Africa.
From there, our programmes, partnerships and advocacy reach communities in other states, and we expand to new states each year.
Where we work
Eleven years of showing up, place by place.
Creeks that once fed families were black with oil. Farmland was failing. Children were missing school every flood season. That is what we saw in 2014, and it is why Prime Initiative for Green Development began.
This is the record of where we went next: the classrooms, creeks, farms and forests, and the rooms where global decisions are made. Choose a state to read what happened there, in our own words.
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03State by state
Nine places, one commitment.
Every state where our work is on record, with the most recent story from each. Choose a state on the map to read them all.
20 stories
Rivers
Latest: Girls, rights and science at Perfect Start Academy (2026, Perfect Start Academy).
6 stories
Akwa Ibom
Latest: Standing with the forest custodians (2026, Ikot Ukpong Iman and Ikot Umiangede, Etinan LGA).
2 stories
Bayelsa
Latest: Bayelsa quiz: a movement for future leaders (2022, Secondary schools, Bayelsa State).
1 story
Federal Capital Territory
Latest: Starting with the ground beneath us (2015, Abuja).
1 story
Niger
Latest: Civic participation, in Minna (2021, Minna).
1 story
Cross River
Latest: Cross River quiz: sharp minds, deep understanding (2022, Secondary schools, Cross River State).
1 story
Edo
Latest: Edo quiz: a state comes together (2022, Secondary schools, Edo State).
1 story
Kaduna
Latest: One household, one tree at Shika Dam (2024, Shika Dam community, Sabon Gari LGA).
1 story
Lagos
Latest: One of 39 at the GEF-SGP OP7 inception (2025, Ikoyi, Lagos).
04Beyond Nigeria
Carrying their voices to the world stage.
As a UNFCCC observer organisation, we take what we learn in Nigerian communities to the places where global climate decisions are made.
2021 · COP26, Glasgow
A Nigerian youth voice on the road to Glasgow
As the world counted down to COP26 in Glasgow, PIGD joined discussions on Africa's position and carried the priorities of Nigerian youth into them. Africa's concerns and development needs must be reflected in global negotiations, and young people need a seat at the table where decisions about their future are made.
2022 · COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh
Loss and damage, said out loud at COP27
At COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, PIGD team members demanded urgent attention to loss and damage and to climate finance, as catastrophic floods had overtaken communities at home. We took the suffering of displaced and flood-affected people to the front of international climate policy.
Your chapter
Could your community be the next pin?
We work with schools, farmers, women, young people and governments. Partner with us, volunteer, or help us reach one more community.