CSO decries non-preparedness for energy transition, gender exclusion in HCDTs

Policy Alert, a civilian nine organisation successful the Niger Delta, has decried the inability of Host Community Development Trusts, HCDTs, crossed the portion to make a broad modulation strategy to cleaner vigor which it described arsenic inevitable.

It besides expressed reservations astir non-inclusion of women successful the committee absorption of astir of the Trusts.

HCDT is an instauration created nether the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, to transmission lipid wealthiness into assemblage development, mostly managed by the people.

The Executive Director of Policy Alert, Tjah Bolton-Akpan, made the observations astatine the Public Presentation of 2026 Gender Aware Host Communities Development Index successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Akpan said the discoveries were made pursuing an autarkic probe of 18 Trusts crossed Rivers and Akwa Ibom states connected 4 cardinal pillars including governance and accountability, sex and societal inclusion, biology sustainability, and preparedness for the planetary vigor transition.

He observed that precise fewer Trusts govern with competence by havin...