Integrated planning and infrastructure form the core of long term regional sustainable development. This PPP initiative seeks to consolidate on the disparate and seemingly unconnected industries (and resultant opportunities) across the Niger Delta Region to create a fully connected and integrated energy, employment, and economic corridor.

Developed through local and international workshops between 2010 and 2012 the NDEC serves as a strategic framework aimed at delivering long term and sustainable development across the region focused on harnessing local resources and easily developable industry to address prevalent socio‐economic challenges.

The corridor investigates, identifies, and strategically connects disparate existing, planned, and moribund assets, infrastructure, industries, and industrial concerns with one another, creating an economic ecosystem driven by sustainability, intra-trade, and development inter-connectivity amongst others. Nodal hubs (BRACED cities) are to mark key intersections across the network, serving as a collection point for urban systems and settlement(s) within the corridor.

Developed on behalf of the BRACED Commission and National Planning Commission, and promoted by the joint-State-framework of Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Cross Rivers, Edo, and Delta States, the NDEC extends through an approximate length of over 850km the corridor, taking its effective start from the Tinapa precinct in Calabar, in the east, aligning with the proposed coastal railway and road system, through Port Harcourt, and terminates on the outer fringes of the Lekki industrial fabric in Lagos, in the west.