MANDATE
- Policy formulation and coordination of human services and social development in the state.
- Promote and protect the welfare of women, youths, and vulnerable groups in the state.
- Monitor compliance and ensure enforcement of provisions of the Child Welfare and Protection Law, 2018.
- Encourage and promote women’s civic, political, cultural, social and economic education by boosting their cooperative societies’ participation and engagement in creative entrepreneurship.
- Promote integration and inclusion of vulnerable groups and eliminate all social and cultural practices that discriminate against them.
- Develop and implement social protection programmes, including a social safety net and conditional cash transfer.
- Monitor the implementation of the equal opportunity agenda of the Government.
- Ensure the eradication of child trafficking, ‘almajiranci’, and child labour by enforcing the Government’s free and compulsory education policy.
- Support the work of relevant Non-Governmental Organizations and coordinate with Nigeria women organizations.
- Coordinate, encourage and support youth activities in the state.
- Promote the organization of exhibitions, performances and festivals of Arts and Culture in the state.
- Ensure the promotion and preservation of Arts and Culture in the state.
- Regulate and coordinate the registration of youth groups, cooperative societies and development associations.