Vision

“Sustainable cooperatives, competitive trade and world-class industrial products and services”

Mission

To develop and promote a competitive and export-led private sector through accelerating Industrial development for economic growth

Mandate

To formulate, review and support policies, strategies, plans and programs that promote and ensure expansion and diversification of trade, cooperatives, environmentally sustainable Industrialization and appropriate technology development to generate wealth for poverty eradication and benefit the country socially and economically.

Goals and objectives

• Promote local economic development in order to enhance people’s incomes
• Build up the economic capacity of a locality to improve its future and to improve the quality of life for all in the locality
• Support dialogue among actors in the public sector, private/business sector and community with the specific objective of creating a conducive environment for investment through enacting byelaws and ordinances
• Mobilize, form and register organized private sector into cooperatives

 Commercial Services Department policy issues

• Public-private partnership (PPP) in LED related ventures
• Commitment of relevant stakeholders –Local governments, the private sector, the communities and civil society to fully participate in economic development of the locally
• Ensuring that local governments prioritize investments that promote LED
• Consistency with the national development plan and decentralization policy and strategic framework
• Competitiveness enhancement –building the capacity of the private sector to improve the districts competitiveness
• Gender equality, equity and inclusiveness-encouraging effective and inclusive participation of different stakeholders 
• Sustainability-promoting a local governance system that ensures optimal utilization of natural resources and ongoing processes of wealth creation

Services offered:

• Commercial services
• Trade development and promotion services 
• Enterprise development services 
• Market linkage services 
• Cooperatives mobilization and outreach services 
• Tourism promotional services