STRUCTURE OF THE SECTORAL POLICY STATEMENT
Introduction
This sector provides community level
activities to reduce poverty and plays a pivotal role that creates the
necessary conducive environment for the other sectors to effectively deliver
services to all sections of the population.
The key role of the sector is to
promote the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized groups and catalyze the
community to appreciate, demand and uptake social services. The sector
facilitates the vulnerable and marginalized groups to harness their potential
through skills development, access to startup capital, mindset change and
building their resilience to shocks. This enables them to participate in the
economic ventures and improve their productivity in the key priority sectors as
identified in the NDP2.
The Local Government (Act Chapter 243)
specifies that the Sector has the responsibility to deliver the following
services.
I. Social
Rehabilitation
II. Labour
and Industrial relations
III. Probation
and social welfare
IV. Orphans
& vulnerable children (OVC)
V.
Gender & Women empowerment
VI. Youth
Affairs
VII. Cultural
affairs
VIII. Adult
learning
IX. Support
to women, youth & disability councils
X.
Support to public libraries
At the local Government level, the
community based Services Department is the conduit for service delivery and
most of the activities are implemented in collaboration with the CSOs and the
community themselves.
Departmental Goal
To empower communities to harness their potential through cultural growth, skills development and labour productivity for sustainable and gender responsive development.