Ministry of Homeland, Local Affairs, Building and Equality of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Ministry for Homeland, Local Affairs, Building and Equality of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia - MHKBG NRW -
State level	North Rhine-Westphalia
position	Supreme state authority
founding	2017
Authority management	Ina Scharrenbach , Minister for Homeland, Local Affairs, Building and Equality for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Web presence	www.mhkbg.nrw

The Department of Homeland, municipal, construction and equality of North Rhine-Westphalia (abbreviation: MHKBG NRW , also called home and Municipal Department , Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Equality NRW ) is one of twelve ministries in the national administration of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . With the formation of the Laschet Cabinet in June 2017, it was newly created in its current form from the divisions of various other ministries. Responsibility for communal matters changed from the Ministry of the Interior , from the Ministry of Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport, responsibility for building, housing and urban development, and from the previous Ministry of Health, Emancipation, Care and Old Age, responsibility for gender equality policy . Ina Scharrenbach ( CDU ) has been the first minister in the Laschet cabinet since June 30, 2017 .

Seat

The seat of the ministry is in the state capital Düsseldorf in the building Jürgensplatz 1, which until June 2017 was the official seat of the ministry for traffic of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

management

Minister Ina Scharrenbach

Portal Jürgensplatz 1

As state minister under Prime Minister Armin Laschet ( CDU ), Ina Scharrenbach (CDU) has headed the newly created ministry since June 30, 2017. Under her, as State Secretary, Jan Heinisch heads the administration.

Organization and tasks

The organizational, task and departmental structure of the new ministry can be found on the ministry's website, as can the organizational plan. Areas of responsibility and political objectives of the house are published (details below).

Home area

The ministry describes its homeland maintenance tasks as follows: “North Rhine-Westphalia offers us all a home worth living in in the heart of Europe. Open-mindedness and tolerance, a sense of responsibility and a sense of community create a strong social cohesion - whether in the big cities or in the rural regions. ”This should be preserved and promoted.

Municipalities area

The ministry describes its municipal tasks as follows: “We will promote equal living conditions and opportunities in town and country. This requires on-site dialogue as well as reliable framework conditions for finances and the design options for cities and municipalities as well as for districts, regional councils, landscape associations, the Ruhr Regional Association and the Aachen city region. The overriding maxim of our local politics is to shape state action in accordance with the subsidiarity principle as close to the citizen as possible, to respect local self-government and, where possible, to strengthen it. "

Construction area

The ministry describes its tasks in the field of construction as follows: “North Rhine-Westphalia is shaped by both rural regions and metropolitan areas. We want to take these different structures into account in building policy. "

Equality area

In the area of ​​women's policy, the ministry puts professional equality and the development of potential in the foreground of its activities: “We want to increase the number of women in employment in North Rhine-Westphalia and, through targeted promotion of women, strive for better conditions for women to gain access to management positions. In cooperation with the Regional Directorate NRW of the Federal Employment Agency , we will strengthen the return to work for women and men after a family break. To this end, existing instruments for promoting re-entry must be checked for their effectiveness and further developed. We will create an atlas on equality between women and men as a means of information, documentation and monitoring of equality policy. It can provide important impulses on the way to a future 'law for equal opportunities and diversity'. In the course of this, the individual ministerial equality reports are abandoned. We will promote women in ' men's jobs ' and men in ' women's jobs '. To this end, we will, among other things, develop the ' Girls Day ' and the ' Boys Day ' so that they have a more sustainable effect. We want to reduce the proportion of employable women without a vocational qualification . Part-time training in North Rhine-Westphalia is to be strengthened. "

In addition, the Ministry is responsible for protection and offers of help in the event of violence against women and men, for example through women's shelters .

List of women ministers

The following tabular overview shows the management of the house since its foundation in 2017. Since the responsibilities for communal matters were taken over from the Ministry of the Interior and those for building from the Ministry of Transport , it is worthwhile for the list of ministers responsible for this before 2017 in the articles of these respective Ministries as well as in the article of the former Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Surname	Life dates	Political party	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires	Cabinet (s)
Minister for Home, Local Affairs, Building and Equal Opportunities for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Ina Scharrenbach	* 1976	CDU	June 30, 2017	officiating	Lash

Web links

• Homepage of the ministry at the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organization plan April 1, 2019 PDF, 215.96 kB
2. ^ The Ministry for Homeland, Local Affairs, Building and Equality of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
3. ↑ land.nrw : More money for women's advice centers ensures protection and help. Retrieved April 9, 2019