Community Based Department
MANDATE
The department has a mandate of empowerment and mobilizing communities to participate in the development processes access services and demand accountability in public and community based initiatives.
• Gender and Culture
• Probation and Social Welfare
• Community Development
• Labor
Functions of the Department
• Community mobilization and empowerment
• Promoting gender and inclusive education
• Promoting social protection among communities
• Registering community based organizations
• Monitoring and supervising NGOs in the Municipality
• Advising council on matters related to gender, labor and social development
• Coordinating the collection, analysis and dissemination of labor information
• Monitoring community centers and community training institutions and children homes
Strategic Objectives
• To strengthen human resource and operation capacities for effective community mobilization and empowerment
• To carry out community sensitization mobilization and promote participation in development initiatives
• To promote gender equality and women empowerment through ensuring equitable access to opportunities and ensuring participation of both male and female in development
• To empower the youth with skills for self-reliance and socio-economic progress
• To improve the welfare and livelihood practices of the elderly
• To promote the wellbeing of the people living with HIV/AIDS
• To promote and enhance positive and progressive cultural practices
• To institutionalize gender responsive planning and budgeting in all public institutions in the municipality
• To promote and enhance compliance with relevant laws policies on occupational health and safety by all public and private sectors in the municipality
Staff composition

Challenges in the Department
• Low sustainability of community groups especially YLP
• Inadequate funds for labour, probation and gender sections
• Unemployment of youth and poor living conditions of the elderly
• Inadequate NGOs add support to activities implemented by the department
• Lack of vehicle for transport in the department
• Ignorance of communities on existing laws on labour, child protection and other matters like gender based violence
• High enrolment VS the low completion rate of pupils in schools
• Child labour is still an issue on streets
Recommendations
• Well-wishers to support the department with a vehicle for transport for ease of service delivery
• Communities to be trained on the issues of ownership of government programmes and thus sustainability
• Fundable proposals to be written and thus support to the department in the section of labor, probation and culture.
• Continuous sensitization of communities on the existing legal frame works governing community matters
• Continuous sensitization of communities on the values of education for their children and taking responsibility towards their children