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Youth, Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services

Directorates
  1. Directorate Gender and Culture
  2. Directorate Children and Social Services
  3. Directorate Social Development
  4. Directorate Youth Empowerment
  5. Directorate Sports, Talent and Creative arts
Functions

Youth and sports

  1. Promote manufacturing of sports equipment
  2. Formulates, implements, coordinates, reviews and monitors youth and Sport development policies and initiatives
  3. Evaluate all aspects of sports in the County
  4. Sports talent development
  5. Sports facility development and management
  6. Mobilizes and facilitates County citizens to participate in sport
  7. Promotion and development of all aspects of performing arts, music, acrobatics, dances, racing, traditional games through capacity building
  8. Develops youth empowerment centers
  9. Facilitates leadership/mentorship, entrepreneurship and life skills in training and
  10. Facilitates Youth Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (YAGPO)
Functions

Gender, culture and Social Services

  1. Formulates and reviews policies and guidelines for gender mainstreaming
  2. Advises and gives technical support on gender and social development issues
  3. Sensitizes and builds capacity for women and vulnerable groups
  4. Facilitates equal opportunities for special needs groups in education, employment, decision-making, representation and business
  5. Designs and implements children participation programs
  6. Builds capacity on child rights, welfare, advisory and referral of individuals and groups to relevant service providers
  7. Guides community development and supervises programs and institutions for childrens care and development and
  8. Facilitates access to Government Procurement Opportunities (PWDs and Women)
  9. Promotion and development of all aspects of performing arts, music acrobatics dances, racing, traditional games through capacity building
  10. Promotion of languages and traditional practices harmonious with county development aspirations
  11. Promotion and development of visual arts/literary artist and their creative works through capacity building exhibitions, culture exchange programs and other promotion strategies
  12. Promotion and development of traditional medicine, indigenous foods preservation and conservation of environment in line with County development aspirations
  13. Promotion of culture education documentation and dissemination of cultural information and research findings
  14. Development and construction of cultural centers
  15. Establishment of libraries and museums