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