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Press Briefing on Findings and Recommendations from the Ebonyi State Budget

By Ugochi Joseph   The Ebonyi State Budget Committee (ESBC) and Participatory Development Alternatives (PDA) shared their thoughts on the 2024 budgetary allocation to agriculture in the state. In their briefing to the media, they highlighted their demands to the government, focusing on the crucial roles of small holder women farmers in Ebonyi State. According …

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The Official Launch of SPAC- West Africa, Nigeria Project & National Stakeholders Meeting on Agroecology and Climate Justice – by Ugochi Joseph

The Official Launch of SPAC- West Africa, Nigeria Project & National Stakeholders Meeting on Agroecology and Climate Justice, organized by AAN held in Broadfield Hotel, Appo, Abuja on the 6th -9th June, 2023. The meeting is aimed at officially launching the project and having conversations amongst key stakeholders on how to scale up agroecology as …

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Educated Girls, a Positive Force for Development -by Kingsley Uro

Education is a uniquely positive force with a wide-ranging impact on society and human development. It has neither always nor everywhere been used to free people from the bonds of ignorance. No country has succeeded without educating its people; education is key to sustaining growth and reducing poverty. Too many people are still excluded from education …

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Smallholder women farmers and Budget Committee Group decry for increase in allocations to Agriculture Budget – By Ugochi Joseph, Program officier SUPIA.

As an organization working to eradicate poverty, promoting social justice and gender equality, and a group working on budgets and budgetary process, Participatory Development Alternatives (PDA), Smallholder Women Farmers and Budget Committee Group with support from Actionaid through the Scaling up Investment Public Agriculture (SUPIA) have successfully organised a -day Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the …

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PDA Consoles Former CEO and Now Advisory Board Member on the Death of her Husband By Charles Abani, PDA Advisor

The Board and Management of PDA wish to condole our former CEO and current Board Advisor, Mrs Victoria Ebere Eze, on the sad loss of her husband and soul mate. With great sadness, we join our colleague to announce the loss of Mr. Emmanuel Chukwuma Eze, who was popularly known as Pazee. He was born …

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The Local Rights Program By Chidinma Arukwe

Participatory development alternatives is a Civil Society Organization based in Ebonyi State with the mission of working with the poor and excluded to improve their standard of living and dignity through mutual respect, humility, non-violence, participation under gender equality learning, sharing, transparency and accountability. The poor and excluded enjoyed all the above-mentioned elements through PDA’s …

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Obstetric Fistula (OBF)- A neglected Women’s Health Problem By Caroline James, Fundraising Campaign Manager

An Obstetric Fistula is a medical condition in which a hole develops between the vagina, rectum, and or bladder as a result of prolonged and/or obstructed labour i.e., when a baby is not able to come out of the birth canal easily and she has no access to a caesarean section. Affected women leak either …

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