The physical planning department has a role in ensuring sustainable use of resources in order to secure livelihoods in the county.
This has often been achieved through adoption of dynamic urban and rural planning strategies and tools such as:
The Trade, Tourism and Industrializaiton Ministry seeks to help create a globally competitive economy with sustainable and equitable socio-economic development where citizens can transact freely across borders.
The goal is to promote, coordinate and implement integrated socio economic policies for a rapidly industrializing economy, to encourage micro-enterprise and self employment, promote and grow the tourism sector, guide and regulate investment and thereby enhance the economic growth of the county.
The Department of Medical Services, Public Health and Sanitation is mandated to oversee the general health of the residents of Kajiado County through provision of essential health services that are affordable, equitable, accessible and responsive to them.
The overall effect of the department’s work is a reduction of morbidity and mortalities through provision of optimum health care for all. The department has 7 key investment areas; Health Products and Technologies; Human Resources; Health information
The vision of the Department of Education and Vocational Training is to offer globally competitive education, training, research and innovation system through provision, promotion and coordination of quality education and training, integration of science, technology and innovation for sustainable development in Early Childhood Education and Vocational Training.
The Education Department has seen progress in the past year, with a new ECD centre built, new education books written and printed, implemented a feeding programme and distributed millions of shillings in bursary funding. The county government has also made strong progress towards the goal of raising literacy levels in the County to 70%.
The Vijana Tujiajiri programme seeks to train, empower, and equip out of work and unemployed youth with training and vocational skills and create business entrepreneurs, growing youth micro-businesses that will create thousands of jobs in the county.
We have enrolled thousands of students at Maasai Technical Training Institute (MTTI) and other Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) across the county through our subsidized vocational training grants programme.