A decade of contracted delivery for the World Bank, AfDB, GIZ and USAID — including in North East Nigeria.

Selected engagements, and who funded them

Donor-funded programmes and commissioned work. Contracts and memoranda of understanding are shared with programme officers during due diligence.

• 2025Kano, Nigeria

  Digital Solutions for Sustainable Development in Nigeria

  Donor:

  GIZ (German Development Cooperation), funded by the European Union and the Federal Republic of Germany

  Contracting partner:

  Digital Transformation Center (DTC) Nigeria

  Consulting contract to train MSMEs to use digital tools in their businesses, using the Digital Business Optimisation (DBOT) curriculum.

  • Four-day training for 35 Kano MSMEs, 27–30 October 2025: 19 women and 16 men.
  • Six modules, with digital competence based on NITDA's harmonised framework.
  • In the post-training survey, 26 of 27 respondents learned digital tools they had never used, and all 27 would recommend the training.
• 2025Nigeria

  IDEAS–TVET: Nigerian Youth Employment through Skills Acquisition Fund (NYESAF)

  Donor:

  World Bank (IDA), through the Federal Ministry of Education

  Contracting partner:

  IDEAS National Project Coordinating Unit (NPCU)

  Memorandum of understanding to deliver short-term skills programmes for young people, aligned with emerging job markets.

  • Creative Media Production programme delivered 12 January to 13 July 2026, aligned to the National Skills Qualification Framework and NBTE standards.
  • 105 completed, 48 of them women: 57 referred through NBTE and the IDEAS Project, 48 selected through an open call.
  • Weekly Creative Industry Connect sessions with practitioners, internships, enterprise incubation and a closing Demo Day.
• 2024Uyo, Akwa Ibom State

  Policy Dialogue on Enhancing Nigeria's Digital Innovation Ecosystem

  Donor:

  GIZ Digital Transformation Center (DTC) and the Innovation Support Network (ISN)

  DD Hub's CEO moderated the dialogue, which brought together government, industry, academia and development partners, and authored its outputs.

  • Overall report, abridged adoption strategy, and co-authored reports from the five breakout sessions.
  • Policy brief on establishing and scaling a Nigeria Innovation Fund.
• 2024Kano, Nigeria

  IDEAS Innovation Grant Facility (IGF): Digital Skills Development Plan

  Donor:

  World Bank (IDA), through the Federal Ministry of Education

  Contracting partner:

  IDEAS National Project Coordination Unit (NPCU), with Kirkira Development Hub as consortium partner

  Grant agreement to train 500 people in UI/UX, web and mobile development, Python, AI and data science, remote sensing and GIS, cinematography, photography and graphics, with certification.

• 2022Nigeria, with Jordan

  Digital food traceability and smart agriculture

  Client:

  National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), AMEDI centre

  Partner:

  Decapolis (Jordan), digital agriculture company; DD Hub is its Nigerian partner

  A three-way agreement, signed in Abuja, to bring a digitised food traceability system to Nigeria. It uses IoT and blockchain to help farmers and agro-processors meet GLOBALG.A.P. standards and reach export markets.

  • Food traceability built on Decapolis's Food Safeguard system (IoT and blockchain), adapted for Nigeria.
  • IoT weather stations and smart agriculture systems for NASENI's AMEDI centre.
  • Digital GLOBALG.A.P. documentation, supporting the government's Zero Reject policy for exported produce.
• 2022Jordan

  Citizen diplomacy platform

  Client:

  Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Amman

  Built web and mobile systems that let the Embassy engage Nigerian citizens remotely, as part of DD Hub's digital transformation work.

  • Web and mobile apps giving citizens direct contact with the Embassy.
  • Easy access to Embassy services, for faster and simpler service delivery.
• 2018–2019Nigeria (multi-country programme)

  Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)

  Donor:

  African Development Bank (AfDB)

  Contracting partner:

  International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), with IITA, ICRISAT and other partners

  A continental agricultural technology adoption and e-extension partnership, run by the African Development Bank with IFDC's support.

  • Produced the Farmer Series: multilingual audiovisual extension videos with rice, groundnut and soybean modules on climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive agriculture, in Hausa with English subtitles.
  • Under the Soil Fertility Enabler, built a TAAT stakeholder engagement platform and a farmer engagement platform working over WhatsApp, interactive SMS and a bot.
  • Completed translated explainer videos on urea super granule technology for rice farmers, trained about 12 TAAT stakeholders on the platform, and supported analysis of input-supplier mapping data.
• From 2017Northern Nigeria

  Peacebuilding and countering violent extremism in Northern Nigeria

  Donor:

  USAID

  Contracting partner:

  Equal Access International

  Implementing and technical partner, drawing on DD Hub's grasp of technology, social media and the Nigerian tech scene.

  • Contracted from November 2017 to facilitate a five-day Tech Camp for 32 participants and to mentor 20 Peace Promoter fellows on using social media to counter violent extremism.
  • Gave fellows social media audits, tactical plans, remote technical support and site visits, and provided technical support for a second Tech Camp.
  • Ran youth hackathons that produced civic-tech startups and projects for countering violent extremism.
  • Technical partner for the Peace Promoters Fellowship and the Farar Tattabara platform, which mentored 30 young people over six months to build social-impact startups for peace.
  • Field research and wider peacebuilding work.
• Completed by 2017Kano State

  Citizen engagement and service tracking in Kano

  Donor:

  UK DFID, through Mobilising for Development (M4D)

  Technology and film for accountable local government, delivered with DD Hub's subsidiary, Digital Film Base.

  • Films of best practice in local-government accountability, screened for community audiences in Kano State.
  • A tracking system that let community members assess health and education services in rural areas.
• Completed by 2017Kano State

  Early open-data and developer programmes

  Partner:

  Connected Development and Code for Africa; Google Developer Group and Bayero University Kano

  Community technology projects from DD Hub's early years in Kano.

  • Geo-referenced and mapped waste dump sites to support environmental sanitation in Kano State.
  • Android incubation training that produced 20 young developers and 5 tested community-development apps.
• 2016–2018Six North Eastern states of Nigeria

  North East Regional Initiative (NERI)

  Donor:

  USAID and the Federal Government of Nigeria

  Contracting partner:

  Creative Associates International

  Subcontractor to Creative Associates International, running the hotline and data-mining centre behind the programme's monitoring and evaluation.

  • Set up and staffed a hotline centre, using an IVR system and a toll-free line, to engage farmers, refugees and other beneficiaries in Hausa, Kanuri and Fulfulde.
  • Handled 1,507 calls from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe between January and August 2017, turning them into analysed feedback for the programme.
  • Expanded the centre into data-mining services: triangulating M&E data and running surveys, impact assessments and needs assessments.
  • Provided M&E and ICT backstopping across Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba.
• 2016Kano

  E-Green Nigeria: #1student1tree campaign

  Partner:

  Bayero University Kano

  DD Hub's ICT-driven tree-planting initiative to mobilise communities, companies, government and civil society against desertification, launched on the university's new campus.

  • Led by the Vice Chancellor, with students and management planting over 300 seedlings at launch, towards a campus target of 3,000 trees.
  • Green Tracker software designed to update planters on their tree, send an SMS alert if its survival is threatened, and map surviving trees in the planter's name.
• Commissioned workKaduna State

  Kaduna Peace Connect: virtual stakeholder management system

  Client:

  Kaduna State Government, through the Kaduna State Peace Commission

  Built a digital platform for the Commission to coordinate civil society organisations working on peacebuilding in Kaduna State, and to support co-creation between government ministries, agencies, CSOs and other stakeholders.

  • Designed to support early warning and early response, alongside project management, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management and data storage.
  • Web dashboards with tiered access for the Commission, organisations and sub-organisations, plus a mobile experience for field officers and volunteers.
  • Tools for digitised theories of change and log frames, activity planning, results tracking, attendance capture, analytics and broadcast messaging.
• Commissioned workTrans Amadi, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

  Trans Amadi Micro Agro-Industrial Park: Environmental Impact Assessment and PPP transaction advisory

  Client:

  Consortium of Lexxgems Integrated Limited (concessionaire) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture

  Ran the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for remodelling and upgrading the Trans Amadi slaughter market into a Micro Agro-Industrial Park, and served as transaction business adviser for the public-private partnership between the parties.

  • EIA for a park with livestock ranches, a modern automated abattoir, agro-stock shops, warehousing, cold rooms, an open livestock market and processing industries.
  • Transaction business adviser bringing the concessionaire and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to a PPP agreement.
  • Engaged the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) on the PPP process.