The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) has opened applications for the Service Provider Performance Grant (SPPG) 2026, inviting private agricultural Service Providers to expand access to quality seeds, inputs, technologies, and structured markets for smallholder farmers across the Niger Delta.
The performance-based grants, ranging from N3 million to N10 million, are designed to help qualified Service Providers scale innovative and climate-smart services, strengthen farmer productivity, and create jobs in the region.
PIND is a non-profit committed to promoting peace and equitable economic growth in the Niger Delta through strategic partnerships and collaborations with bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, federal and state government agencies in Nigeria, private companies, and civil society groups.
PIND’s overarching goal is to increase income and employment in the region through two primary programmes: Economic Development and Peace Building. The Economic Development programme facilitates inclusive, sustainable, and diversified economic growth enabled by improved analysis, advocacy, and capacity building of market actors, while the Peace Building programme strengthens conflict management systems and capacities for enabling peace and economic growth, utilizing analysis and advocacy to address constraints to peace.
Both programmes are supported by four enablers: capacity building, advocacy, communications, gender equity, and social inclusion.
The purpose of the SPPG initiative is to further strengthen the capacity of private agricultural Service Providers to sustainably expand and deepen the delivery of Agricultural services, inclusive of climate-smart agricultural advisory and linkage services, leading to increased income and job creation for smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
Specifically, the grant seeks to increase farmers’ access to climate-smart good agricultural practices, improve linkages to and adoption of quality agricultural inputs including improved and certified seeds, facilitate access to productivity-enhancing and climate-resilient technologies, strengthen linkages between farmers and higher-value markets, and promote commercially viable, scalable, and sustainable service delivery models led by private sector actors.
The grant is open to private agricultural Service Providers with the capacity and experience to deliver climate-smart agricultural training, advisory, input, technology, and market services to smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in the Niger Delta.
Eligible applicants must ensure that proposed intervention activities are based in the Niger Delta and have the potential to generate employment and improve livelihoods for households in the region. Applicants must have participated in PIND-organised capacity building programmes targeted at Service Providers and demonstrated understanding of PIND’s market system development approach.
They must also show experience in delivering agricultural advisory, extension, or technical services to smallholder farmers, provide verifiable legal registration through a Tax Identification Number (TIN) or Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) certificate, and operate within priority agricultural value chains such as aquaculture, cassava, cocoa, palm oil, poultry, vegetable, rice, maize, bee keeping, and small ruminants.
Applicants are required to demonstrate a viable business model, willingness to co-invest financially or in-kind, capacity to reach smallholder farmers including women, youth, and persons with disabilities (PWDs), and readiness to collaborate with input suppliers, aggregators, processors, and other market actors. They must also comply with PIND’s grant management requirements, including monitoring, reporting, and use of PIND database tools.
Interested Service Providers are to submit a technical proposal and detailed budget outlining the proposed intervention, target farmers, geographic coverage, service delivery approach, expected results, inclusion strategies, partnerships, marketing and linkage plans, sustainability strategy, and co-investment plan.
Applications must include a detailed budget indicating grant funding requested, cost assumptions, value-for-money considerations, and the applicant’s co-investment contribution.
The submission deadline is February 24, 2026. All applications, including the technical and detailed budget proposals and mandatory supporting documents, must be sent via email to etender@pindfoundation.org on or before the deadline.
