By Ukongikwen Adie-Nzuanke
Calabar, Nigeria – In a joint dedication in the direction of the realisation of the 2025-2027 Work Plan for the rights of youngsters and ladies in Cross River State, the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) Enugu Chief of Discipline Workplace, Juliet Chiluwe, led an advocacy staff to Calabar, on twelfth March 2025, on a working go to to the Workplace of the Appearing Governor of the State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey (PhD).
Talking throughout the go to, Chiluwe paid the very best compliments to the State Governor, Senator (Prince) Bassey Otu, for his sterling management as a terrific advocate for the welfare of ladies and kids within the State.
She famous that the State’s dedication is an indication of anticipated progress in working with UNICEF in the direction of the development in little one well being indices in Cross River State.
The important thing intervention actions for the 2025-2027 Work Plan are: Well being, Vitamin, Training, Little one Safety, Social Coverage and WASH.
The Commissioner for lnternational Donor Co-ordination, Dr Hipolatus Lukpata, who was accompanied by the Everlasting Secretary of the Ministry, Barr. Anthony Effiom, and the Director of Administration to the advocacy expressed confidence that the 2025-2027 work plan will strengthen all which were achieved beforehand in order to make sure that the ladies and kids in Cross River State are educated, wholesome and guarded.
The Appearing Governor, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey, lauded UNICEF for his or her collaboration with the State in the direction of bettering the lives of youngsters and ladies.
Odey knowledgeable the staff that Otu has for the reason that inception of the administration addressed problems with counterpart funding immediately due to his perception in his ‘PEOPLE FIRST’ mantra.
He assured UNICEF of the Authorities’s unwavering dedication to working with them in all areas of intervention and actions for the holistic growth of mom and little one.
The excessive level of the go to was the signing of the 2025-2027 UNICEF/ Authorities of Cross River State Work Plan.
