The year 2021 was a year of several striking accomplishments. We are grateful to all those who chose to take the walk through the rugged road of development with us. We applaud the courage of our community folks who never gave up but, chose to support our human rights-based approach. PDA acknowledges the full support …
By Caroline James, Fundraising Campaign Manager Participatory Development Alternatives is a non-profit, non-political and non-discriminatory organisation. We work with the poor and excluded to improve their livelihoods and dignity, and we provide alternative and participatory approaches to development, poverty eradication and transparent and accountable governance for the citizens of Ebonyi State. PDA holds its key …
By John Otu Okocha, Sponsorship Officer PDA is committed to ensuring that the adverse effects of climate change are minimized in the State. One major step to actualize this task was the desk review and situation analysis of agroecology policies and practices in Ebonyi State in 2019. In the process, many gaps were identified. Notable …
By Patience Ugochi Joseph, Program Officer SUPIA The Malabo Declaration commitments are targeted approaches to achieve agricultural vision for the continent. it is an essential document that assists AU members to achieve agriculture-led growth and end poverty and hunger. In 2003, the African Heads of States and Governments in Maputo in 2003 conceptualized and launched …
By John Otu Okocha, Child Sponsorship Officer Over the years, PDAs Child Sponsorship programme has had great impacts on the lives of our community children. Many children have acquired life-skills through this programme, and for those who were lucky enough to continue in the programme throughout their primary and secondary education, the impact has been …
By Patience Ugochi Joseph, Program Officer 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 with support from ActionAid through the Scaling up Investment Public Agriculture (SUPIA) have successfully organised a one-day Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2022 …
Smallholder women farmers advocate for increase budgetary allocations to Agriculture Read More »
By Charles Abani, PDA Advisor 2020 brought several exiting changes for key players in the first generation of Participatory Development Alternatives at both Executive and Board levels – we’d like to share our exciting news of these changes with you all. Firstly, our long-standing CEO since inception, Victoria Ebere Eze, moved on to other exciting …
Agriculture remains an important sector of the country’s economy. This is as a result of the role which the sector contributes to the well-being of the teeming population such as provision of food for the increasing population, generation of employment opportunities and supply of adequate raw materials to industries. Similarly, according to National Bureau of …
Farming and livestock rearing are the main livelihood for over 80 percent of households in Ebonyi State and Nigeria at large (Egwu, 2015) and about 90% being smallholder farmers with an average farmland size of 1.5 to 3.0 hectares (Ebonyi State Agriculture Policy – 2010). According to the National Bureau of Statistics report of Quarter …
The world is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19 pandemic, which started in November 2020, with new cases and deaths recorded. Governments all over the world and corporate bodies like World Health Organizations (WHO), donor agencies, NGOs, research institutes, pharmaceutical companies, etc. are making relentless efforts to find solutions to the global pandemic. Safety measures introduced …
