Functions

• To promote an Institutional Framework to devise and implement a national sectoral and workplace strategies to develop and improve the skills of the Kenyan workforce and to integrate those strategies within the National Qualifications Framework
• Overseeing skills Development among Actors and establishment of sector specific skills Council
• Establishment and management of institutional frameworks for linking industry skills development and training
• Implementation of the Industrial attachment Policy
• Harmonization of skills training at all levels of Training
• Management of National Skills Development Fund
• Implementation of National apprenticeship Policy
• Development and implementation of Employment Data Base system with linkages to all cadres of graduates and jobs in the market
• Assessing industrial training, Testing and Occupational Skills and awarding Certificates including Government Test Certificates
• Registration and approval of Professional Bodies
• To improve productivity in the workplace and the competitiveness of Employers
• To promote self employment
• To improve the delivery of social services