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The need for strategic interventions aimed at empowering women of all classes and status has been reiterated by the Commissioner Ministry of International Donor Coordination Elder. Hippolatus Lukpata PhD affirming that women Empowerment brings peace and Progress at home. The Commissioner stated this during a working visit by some development partners to his office New Secretariat Complex Calabar.
The Commissioner inform that CRS under the able leadership of His Excellency Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu has carried out geo-mapping of the lands across the 3 Senatorial Districts of the State to ensure crops are cultivated according to comparative advantages. Adding that, due to systematic policies and approaches adopted by the Government the State has recorded significant progress even in the Health sector.
That there is a deliberate policy of Government to ensure that projects don't end at the end of intervention or pilot stage by transiting beyond for the benefit more Cross Riverians, and the Ministry has a Department of Monitoring and Evaluation in addition to the monthly development partners meeting which is meant to track progress made by development partners while M&E also gets to the cites to confirm report earlier presented. He used the occasion to welcome the partners and expressed appreciation for Cross River State to be among the benefiting States.
Earlier, the different projects heads or coordinators and their team took time to ask questions that concerns them and how the Ministry monitor activities of donor partners as some are new project while others have been in operations.
Some of the projects are Building Agricultural Livelihoods, opportunities Optimal Health for Women and Girls (BLOOM), implemented by UNFPA and UNwomen supported by KOICA and operate 3 States of Adamawa, Kaduna and Cross River State with the objectives to transform the lives of rural women by enhancing their productivity and participations in Agriculture, integrating essential health and protection services by addressing systemic barriers to gender equality, while aligning it's holistic approach with Nigeria national development plans 2021 to 2025.
While the Korea International Cooperation Agency undertakes survey to meet with women in Agriculture to evaluate them as part of consideration for women Empowerment for the BLOOM project, with the objectives to increase Agricultural Productivity and income among rural women and girls through the establishment of women led cooperatives and training centres providing modern and climate-Smart Agricultural Skills and Technologies.
In attendance were the Hon. Commissioner MIDC, Elder, Hippolatus Lukpata PhD, the Permanent Secretary Barr. Anthony Effiom, the Director of Administration Mrs. Ekaete Okon, Directors and Heads of Departments from the Ministry, while Dr. Andrew Kirima, Head of Office/Programme, Coordinator UNFPA CRS office, others includes Kayode Adebisi Assistant Manager KOICA, Ibrahim Nurden, Programme Officer UN women, Sola Toye Reproductive health Analysts, etc. The visit featured questions and answers and group photograph.
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