About Us

By 1989, the national and state commission for women were created to act as administrative organ for the better life programme which grew in leaps and bounds.The participation in women in nation building gradually gave assistance globally and nationally. After the Beijing which prescribe 23 critical area of women development including available focal machinery for women, the FWNA and social development and directed state to do same. In cross river state, the ministry of women affairs and social development was created in CRS on the 4 of June 1997.

Women for the first time had administrative machinery, a cabinet minister and commissioners that could seat at the apex decision making organs to discuss women issues. In the first tenure of senator Liyell Imoke as governor of CRS in July 2007 further splinted the ministry of women affairs and social development into ministry of women affairs and ministry of social development respectively. Which implies that ministry of women affairs, is an independent separate ministry from his own sister ministry.

Structure

The ministry of women affairs is structure in to five department and 3 unit. The department are administration department, finance and supply department, planning research and statistics department, child development department, women affairs department, the unit are information unit, audit unit, servicom unit and recently, procurement unit.

The first 3 department are statutory why the last 2 are professional and operational department. The department of women affairs initiate programme for women development. The child department on the other hand, carry out policy and programme that will lead to holistic development of children especially, those difficult circumstances in their affairs that concern them and ensure the development, protection and survivor of children in accordance with provisions of the child right law.