Core Functions
Arising from the constitutional mandate of the National Government to spearhead policy formulation, ensuring standardization and uniformity, the national government and its agencies shall be responsible for:
- Formulation, adoption and implementation of policy and legal framework for the development and growth of all co-operatives in keeping with the overall national development policies and priorities
- Registration and liquidation of co-operative enterprises
- Establishment of uniform standards of the operations of co-operative enterprises, recognition of county co-operative enterprises, cross-county co-operatives enterprises
- Develop and maintain inter-governmental relations framework on co-operative enterprises
- Carry out inquiries, inspections and investigations into the affairs of co-operatives
- Provide oversight to apex, federations, secondary, and cross-county co-operative enterprises
- Regulate co-operative audit services including social and value for money audits
- Promote good governance and ethics on co-operative enterprises
- Formulate co-operative education, training, standards and regulations
- Carry out capacity building to the county Governments
- Promote public private partnership and joint ventures
- Promote and facilitate regional and international co-operative relations
- Establish and maintain a data and information center for co-operatives
- Promote research and development in Co-operatives
- Review and enforce registration requirements from time to time
- Promote harmonization and /or linkages between the movement, the National Government and County Governments through periodic forums
