Vision, Mission, Guiding Principles

Vision
Globally competitive and sustainable industrial, enterprise and cooperative sector
Mission
To create an enabling environment for a globally competitive, sustainable Industrial, enterprise and Co-operative sector through appropriate policy, legal and regulatory framework.
Guiding Principles
In order to reactivate the rapid and sustainable growth of the industrial and enterprise sector in Kenya, the following guiding principles adapted from the National Industrialization Policy (NIP) will be embraced

• Enhancing productivity and competitiveness: The policy emphasizes increased productivity and competitiveness as one of the key guiding principles for expanding and maintaining the domestic and export markets in a liberalized environment.
• Market access: The Plan takes cognizance of the need to regional and global markets for Kenya's manufactured
• High value addition and diversification: The Plan seeks to take advantage of the existing natural and human resource endowment to open up avenues value addition, creation of wealth, and employment generation It focus on promotion of processing of primary products.
• Equitable development: The Plan lays a framework for equitable dispersion of industries throughout the country in order to accelerate the pace of development in all areas.
• Technology and innovation: The Plan presents strategies for initiating innovation and technological advancement for boosting productivity and competitiveness of the industrial sector.
• Fair trade practices: The Plan seeks to lay a foundation for developing the necessary infrastructure or enforcing Intellectual Property Rights to create a level playing platform for fair competition by guarding against property rights infringement preventing dumping of counterfeits and substandard and second hand goods.
• Growth and graduation of MSMIs: The Plan embraces the principle of promoting the growth and graduation of MSMIs into large industries that will form the bedrock of industrialization.
• Employment Creation: This Plan targets quality and sustainable employment creation.
• Environmental Sustainability: The Plan recognizes the need to promote sustainable industrial development that upholds environmental protection, management and efficient resource utilization.
• Compliance with the Kenya's Current Constitution: The Plan advocates for policy, legal, and regulatory reforms to enhance compliance with the provisions of the Constitution and takes into account the constitutional provisions for a devolved structure of government and the particular call to encourage regional dispersal of industries as a basis for equity and empowerment across the nation.
• Education and human resource development: The policy recognizes that industrialization can only take place when there is a strong and well trained workforce from all levels of training.

Core Values

The Ministry seeks to uphold the following core values:

Customer focus: We are committed to upholding the  highest standard in our services delivery to all customers;
Integrity: we are committed to acting in an honest impartial, fair and transparent manner and being devoid of corruption practices while delivering our services;
Team work: We will deliberately nurture team spirit, collaboration, consultation and adopt  participatory approach in discharging our mandate;
Professionalism: We will maintain high level of professionalism through continuous competency development;
Creativity and innovativeness: We will continuously seeking innovative methods of delivery our services;
Efficiency and effectiveness: We will be guided by operational, rationalization and cost saving measures;
Equity: We will mainstream government policies on gender, the physically challenged, and HIV/AIDS and to treat all employees fairly.
Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: We shall be committed to ensure sustainable industrial and enterprise development process which protects the environment.
National Values: We shall uphold the National Values as outlined in Article 10 of the Kenya Constitution.

Core Functions

• Industrialization Policy
• Kenya Property Rights Policy (Patents, Trade Marks, Service Marks, and  innovation)
• Private Sector Development Strategy
• Quality Control including Industrial Standards
• Leather Development
• Special Economic Zones
• Co-operative Policy and Implementation
• Co-operative Financing Policy
• Micro and Small Enterprise Development
• Co-operative Legislation and Support Services
• Co-operative Education and training
• Co-operative Governance
• Co-operative Production, Marketing and Value Addition
• Promotion of Co-operative Ventures
• Co-operative Audit services
• Co-operative Savings, Credit and other Financial Services Policy
• Small and Medium Enterprise Training
• Development of Micro and Small Business
• Private Sector Development Policy
• Buy Kenya policy