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Skills for livelihoods
Promoting practical, market-relevant vocational and technical training that can equip young people with useful capabilities.
LEADERSHIP THROUGH SERVICE
Honourable Commissioner for Youth Development and Skills Acquisition
Cross River State
Creating pathways.
Unlocking potential.
Advancing practical skills, youth employability, enterprise and meaningful participation in public life.
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01 / ABOUTTHE PERSON & THE PURPOSE
A COMMITMENT TO PEOPLE
Public service should create lasting opportunity.
Barr. Odum-Ijom Ukam is a legal practitioner and public servant serving as the Honourable Commissioner for Youth Development and Skills Acquisition in Cross River State.
His ministry's youth-development agenda, as described in the supplied profile, places emphasis on practical vocational skills, employability, entrepreneurship, partnerships and pathways that can help young people build sustainable livelihoods.
Visit the Ministry of Youth Development website ↗02 / AREAS OF FOCUS
Building a stronger future
through youth opportunity.
A people-centred approach connecting learning, work, enterprise and participation.
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Employability & enterprise
Supporting job readiness, entrepreneurship, mentorship and connections to opportunities across the economy.
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Youth participation
Encouraging constructive civic engagement and the inclusion of young people in community and public life.
03 / PROGRAMMES & INITIATIVES
Turning ambition into
practical pathways.
Selected programmes and partnerships associated with the ministry's youth-development agenda.
PROGRAMME IN FOCUSVOCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT / 01
Skills in the Hands
A programme focused on equipping Cross River youths with practical, market-driven vocational skills. The supplied photograph shows a group of trainees and ministry representatives in a programme setting.
Practical training. Useful capabilities. Pathways to livelihood.
MULTI-SKILL TRAINING
One Youth, Two Skills
An initiative centred on helping participants develop more than one practical capability, broadening their options for work and self-reliance.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & EMPLOYABILITY
CRS-YEEP Hub
The Cross River State Youth Entrepreneurship, Employability and Productivity Hub is described as a platform for mentorship, digital tools, job readiness and business connections.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Internship & workplace pathways
Supporting access to structured workplace exposure and professional development, including collaboration around the Nigerian Jubilee Fellows Programme.
Programme descriptions are based on information supplied for this portfolio. Confirm current programme status, eligibility and outcomes with the ministry before publication.
04 / PUBLIC SERVICE
Partnership.
Participation.
Progress.
Working with institutions, communities and youth structures to support a more capable, engaged and economically active generation.
Institutional collaboration
Engagement with public institutions, development partners and organisations to widen access to skills and professional opportunities.
Grassroots engagement
Community-facing activities and youth engagement across Cross River State's local government areas.
Responsible citizenship
Advocacy for positive youth participation, community responsibility and constructive alternatives to social harm.
Leadership development
Supporting opportunities for young people to strengthen leadership, civic knowledge and contribution to public life.
05 / OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Leadership and impact in pictures.
Portrait and programme photograph supplied for this portfolio.
06 / OFFICIAL CONTACT
Connect with the
Ministry.
For official enquiries, programme information and correspondence, use the ministry's published contact channels.
Ministry website ↗OFFICE ADDRESS
Michael Ani Secretariat,
Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
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