Mandate and Functions

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1. Coordination of county government functions.
2. Participatory development and local development organizing
3. Enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to disasters while building a culture of disaster risk reduction among communities.
4. Enhance capacity for effective response to disasters and more so emergencies.
5. Enhance devolution capacities and good governance for a working devolution.
6. Liquor licensing and control.
7. Civic knowledge and competency development
8. Research, documentation and knowledge management

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1. Facilitate a pragmatic implementation of equitable and sustainable devolution at the county level;
2. Facilitate the integration of the objects, values and principles of devolution in the county’s development processes;
3. Management of the County Government Administrative function;
4. Management of county government enforcement and compliance function;
5. Liquor compliance in collaboration with national government;
6. Enhance integration and implementation of socio- economic and political rights in county’s service delivery;
7. Support county departments and communities in integrating community development theory in the implementation of devolved functions;
8. Establishment and coordination of devolved service delivery mechanisms towards a one government approach in project implementation and reporting at the decentralized levels;
9. Coordination of meetings of County directors (Heads of Technical Units) with a view of building the linkage between decentralized service delivery units, heads of departments and county
10. executive committees working groups;
11. Enhance self-governance, community resilience, community led development and local development organizing;
12. Devolution support and acceleration programs’ coordination;
13. County Social safeguard mechanisms;
14. Facilitate the County Devolution Sector working Group;
15. Establishment of frameworks, structures and harmonization of public participation and civic education function across departments;
16. Facilitate public participation in planning, budgeting, implementation and citizen oversight throughout the development processes (participatory development);
17. Promote citizen participation in the exercise of their rights, management of their own affairs and furtherance of their development;
18. Enhancing community ownership, project management and sustainability mechanisms;
19. Enhance good governance and sustainability of projects handed over to communities and community groups in close collaboration with the lead departments and development partners;
20. Coordination and management of livelihood guarantee policy, programs and projects;
21. Research & development, Innovation and knowledge management for a working devolution;
22. Civic education and support to civil society groups;
23. Grievance redress and community feedback mechanisms;
24. Disaster management planning and mainstreaming;
25. Emergency response and administration of other county special programs;
26. Emergency fund administration, coordination and documentation;
27. Promote open government partnership (OGP);
28. Develop and operationalize the County School of Community Led Development;
29. Monitor, evaluate and oversee the management of devolved functions under the county government; and
30. Liquor licensing and control.

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