Directorates
A. Directorate of Investment
The directorate will be headed by an Investment Secretary who is responsible for the co-ordination of investment Policy, Investment promotion & Strategy and field services Division.
The division is responsible for the development and reviews of Investment Policy and Strategy.
Functions:
1. Development and implementation of national Investment Policy and Strategy;
2. Review and formulate investment frameworks for legislation, guidelines and stakeholder engagement;
3. Coordination and alignment of Inter-governmental and Regional blocs ( EAC, COMESA, TFTA, AfCFTA, etc);
4. Develop and implement a framework for sustainable investments, green investment initiatives and climate change finance;
5. Develop and coordinate Kenya’s position with respect to investment agreements and treaties, including related chapters in other international and regional treaties;
6. Coordination and alignment of subnational/county investment promotion strategies with national investment policy;
7. Negotiate bilateral investment treaties BIT EPAS;
The division is responsible for the driving legislative and regulatory reform on the ease of doing business and business transformation.
Functions:
1. Developing communication plans for reforms, branding of reforms;
2. Creating public awareness on business transformation reforms;
3. Review of National Legal framework and their appropriateness to business reforms and identification of legal overlaps and hurdles that exist in current laws;
4. Liaison with county legislative teams on ways to minimize regulatory hurdles that choke business such as levies, licenses, permits and proposing ways to mitigate the same legal realm;
5. Providing necessary platforms to ensure citizens and business communities provide a robust feedback mechanism on operational challenge areas;
6. Monitor the business climate and recommend appropriate policy, legal, regulatory and administrative changes;
The division is responsible for Co-ordinating the transformation of the business eco-system supporting private sector development.
Functions:
1. Facilitate private sector, development partners and stakeholder participation;
2. Formulating and reviewing policies, strategies, and programmes for private sector development;
3. Liaise with regional and international partners to address investor concerns;
4. Coordination of programs for enhancing enterprise productivity and competitiveness;
5. Enhance investment transparency and clarity for investors seeking to invest in Kenya;
6. Development of investors’ capacity;
7. Undertake advocacy to improve the investment climate within the National and County levels;
B. Directorate of Business Competitiveness
The Directorate is headed by the Business Competitiveness Secretary who is responsible for the co-ordination of Business and investment Reforms, regulatory & Communication Services; and Private Sector Development Divisions.
The division is responsible for the Development and implementation the business reform agenda across the entirety of Government; and for Championing automation and re-engineering Government business and services processing.
Functions
1. Identify and address factors constraining Ease of doing business;
2. Championing automation and re-engineering Government business and services processes;
3. Co-ordination and oversight of national and county implementation of business climate reforms;
4. Creating public sensitization of reforms in the business climate and ease of doing business;
5. Review and recommend business reforms for promoting business and for making Kenya competitive;
6. Conduct county competitiveness index ranking & publishing;
The division is responsible for the driving legislative and regulatory reform on the ease of doing business and business transformation
Functions:
1. Developing communication plans for reforms, branding of reforms;
2. Creating public awareness on business transformation reforms;
3. Review of National Legal framework and their appropriateness to business reforms and identification of legal overlaps and hurdles that exist in current laws;
4. Liaison with county legislative teams on ways to minimize regulatory hurdles that choke business such as levies, licenses, permits and proposing ways to mitigate the same legal realm;
5. Providing necessary platforms to ensure citizens and business communities provide a robust feedback mechanism on operational challenge areas;
6. Monitor the business climate and recommend appropriate policy, legal, regulatory and administrative changes;
The division is responsible for Co-ordinating the transformation of the business eco-system supporting private sector development.
Functions:
1. Facilitate private sector, development partners and stakeholder participation;
2. Formulating and reviewing policies, strategies, and programmes for private sector development;
3. Liaise with regional and international partners to address investor concerns;
4. Coordination of programs for enhancing enterprise productivity and competitiveness;
5. Enhance investment transparency and clarity for investors seeking to invest in Kenya;
6. Development of investors’ capacity;
7. Undertake advocacy to improve the investment climate within the National and County levels;
C. Directorate of Partnerships Research and Development
The directorate is headed by Secretary Partnership Research & Development who is responsible for the co-ordination of partnership & Research; and Investment Project Coordinationdivisions.
The division is responsible for the Promotion and Oversight of the Development of Special Economic Zones and Industrial Parks.
Functions:
1. Oversee all investment projects are consistent with the national priorities specified in the relevant policies.;
2. Establish and maintain a Private Investment Management and Information System to inform decision making in Private Investments;
3. Collecting and disseminating investment information and intelligence;
4. Tracking FDI and DDI to inform decision making;
5. Conduct research on investment opportunities and investment sources;
6. Establishment and operationalization of an Investment observatory;
The division is responsible for the Co-ordination of Investment Projects & Infrastructural Development.
Functions:
1. Facilitate development of common-user facilities for industrial parks and aggregation centers;
2. Co-ordinate investment sourcing and closing;
3. Provide for an effective monitoring and evaluation process and Impact Assessment of Investments;
4. Develop standards, methodologies, and tools for appraisal of project concept notes, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies;
5. Carry out periodic reviews on the investment climate in the zones;
6. Conduct surveys on the effectiveness of investment incentives in the zones;
7. Establish clear quantitative and qualitative strategies to increase the retention of investments;
8. Provide for the continual evaluation of the quality of investor support by both national and county governments;
9. Conduct periodic reviews on international investment flows (FDI);
D. Administration & Support Services
The Administration and Support Services is headed by the Secretary of Administration. It is made up of various units that provide specialized support services for the optimum operations of the technical directorates. It also provides centralized services concerned with the coordination, organization, and management of administrative services within the State Department.
Responsible for the management and coordination of the Human Resource Management and Development function.
Responsible for the management and coordination of the Supply Chain Management Services function
Its mandate is to provide advice on the planning process, policy formulation and monitoring and evaluation to ensure national development goals are realized. The mandate of the directorate was expanded to include monitoring and evaluation of all government and donor-funded projects in 2005 vide a Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of Civil Service Circular of 7th July 2005.
The State Department for Economic Planning deploys Economists/Statisticians to the CPPMDs.
Functions
- Providing technical advice on planning, economic and statistical issues on the formulation and setting of policies on manufacturing and industrial development;
- Undertaking Monitoring and Evaluation of policies, programmes and projects under Industry and ensuring their timely, efficient and effective implementation;
- Provision of technical input and support in the preparation of Medium Term Expenditure Frame Work (MTEF) budget and its implementation;
- Coordinating the preparation, negotiation and vetting of the State Department’s and its Agencies’ Performance Contracts;
- Coordinating formulation, implementation and review of Medium Term Plans and Manufacturing Sector Plans under Kenya Vision 2030;
- Developing, coordinating, implementing and reporting on Ministerial and State Department’s Strategic Plan and Annual Work Plans;
- Coordinating the formulation, implementation and review of national and sectoral development plans, policies and strategies;
- Monitoring, evaluating and reporting progress on implementation of the national development blueprints, policies, programmes and projects;
- Uploading, updating in formation and generating Ministry/State Department projects/programmes’ reports in the Electronic National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (e-NIMES);
- Conducting sector-specific economic analysis and research on topical and emerging socio-economic issues to inform policy formulation and planning;
- Preparing periodic sector-specific progress reports and ensuring compliance with public investment management guidelines;
- Updating and maintaining knowledge management repository; and
- Coordinating implementation of international commitments and regional integration issues including sustainable development goals and African agenda 2063 and economic partnerships.
Develops and implements internal audit programs, plans, strategies, and schedules
Responsible for the management and coordination of the Finance and Budgeting function
Responsible for the management and coordination of the accounting function
The core mandate of the ICT Unit is to make the State Department result-oriented, efficient and citizen-centered through providing high-quality customer focused Information Technology services and solutions to actualize on its mandate
OBJECTIVES: -
1. Setting up IT strategies in the department in line with ICTA.
2. Support the implementation of different ICT Systems in the State Department.
3. Prepare strategic and operational plans for the ICT unit to ensure that all necessary ICT tools, processes and systems are in place to meet the State Department's requirements.
4. Improve and maintain ICT infrastructure in the State Department.
5. Provide support related to ICT capacity building.
6. Manage ICT use and security issues in a comprehensive and coordinated way.
7. To provide user support and ICT Equipment Maintenance.
8. Develop and maintain ICT Business Continuity Plans
9. Enforce and implement e-Government standards and procedures developed by ICT Authority
10. Champion adoption Green ICT.
11. Improves interaction with stakeholders, internal and external customers through use of ICT
12. Develop and manage the ICT plan and budgeting for the ICT services to ensure that adequately used to yield better services.
13. Leverage on ICT to foster innovation for business processes.
14. Ensure that the Department’ IT assets are safeguarded and properly maintained in good working condition.
Management and coordination of legal counsel services in the State Department including advising on all matters of corporate governance, regulation, and managing litigations.
Management and coordination of public communications and public relations functions.