The Directorate is responsible to the Principal Secretary for the overall coordination and management of peace building and conflict management functions.
Functions
- Coordinate development, implementation, interpretation and review of policies, strategies, laws, regulations, standards, guidelines and mechanisms governing peace building and conflict management;
- Oversee provision of technical advice to national and county governments on matters of peace and conflict management;
- Promote conflict prevention, management, resolution, national healing and reconciliation process;
- Coordinate domestication and implementation of international instruments and regional declarations, protocols, agreements and mechanisms on peace building and conflict management;
- Oversee capacity building and training for peace stakeholders;
- Coordinate monitoring and evaluating of peace building and conflict management initiatives and programmes;
- Coordinate research, documentation and innovation on peace building and conflict management agenda;
- Oversee establishment of linkages and collaborations with relevant development partners and stakeholders in peace building and conflict management;
- Ensure safe custody of data bank of all development partners and stakeholders involved in peace building and conflict management;
- Coordinate assessment of quality of programs, content and training on peace building and conflict management;
- Undertake sensitization, publicity and advocacy of training programs on peace building and conflict management;
- Oversee monitoring and evaluation of training programs on peace building and conflict managementfor continuous improvement;
- Spearhead development, maintenance and updating knowledge management repositories on peace building and conflict management to facilitate information sharing;
- Arbitrate and mediate intra and inter-county boundary disputes and conflicts over natural resources;
- Spearhead implementation of a national awareness, sensitization and programmes on peace building and conflict management initiatives;
- Oversee identification and mapping of hot spot areas;
- Oversee implementation of peace building and conflict management related multi-agency Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), Agreements and social contracts;
- Coordinate multi-agency initiatives on technology and innovations on peace building and conflict management;
- Oversee customer satisfaction survey on services offered by the Directorate; and
- Spearhead Business Process Re-engineering in the Directorate.