The department manages county finances and development by formulating budgets, mobilizing local revenue, maintaining strict accounting controls, overseeing legal public procurement, and ensuring citizen public participation under the PFM Act.
The department drives food security and rural income by providing farming extension services, managing livestock disease control, promoting aquaculture, supporting agribusiness, and managing local inputs, slaughterhouses, and fisheries.
The department ensures safe water access by building infrastructure, manages environmental conservation and waste disposal, regulates natural resources like sand or forests, and implements local climate change adaptation strategies.
The department manages administrative decentralization down to villages, oversees the county civil service payroll and HR, coordinates mandatory public participation forums, and digitizes public services through e-governance and revenue automation.
The department develops infrastructure by building county roads, supervising public works designs, managing urban spatial planning and land surveying, and expanding street lighting and green energy installations.
The department drives economic growth by managing retail markets, promoting local tourism sites, empowering youth and digital creators in the creative economy, and auditing cooperative societies and SACCOs.
The department delivers healthcare by managing local hospitals, driving public health immunizations and sanitation, providing free maternal and neonatal care, and hiring medical personnel to ensure universal health coverage.
The department manages Early Childhood Development centers and polytechnics, builds sports stadiums to nurture talent, provides youth enterprise funding, and implements social safety-net programs for vulnerable community members.
