The funtions of the directorate include:
- Advice County Government entities on economic planning and audit matters
- Ensure that Busia County gets unqualified audit opinion by reducing the value of audit queries in the directorate
- Increase public participation in pertinent economic planning matters
- Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction
- Embed performance management in the economic planning
- Put in place an optimal organizational structure for efficient and effective functioning of the Department
- Attract, develop and maintain adequate qualified and competent staff
- Prudently streamline and enhance the capital investment venture strategies
- Build and enhance the Directorate infrastructural capacity Economic Planning