The Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, known by its French name as the Ministère de la Promotion de la Femme et de la Famille and by the acronym MINPROFF, is a government department of Cameroon. Its responsibilities include promoting and protecting women’s rights and protecting the family.
The ministry is headed by Marie-Thérèse Abena Ondoa. In reporting on killings of women in Cameroon, the ministry provided estimates of nearly 70 such killings in the current year, compared with at least 50 in 2023 and 67 in 2024.