The Directorate is mandated with:
- Identifying, nurturing and developing sports in the county
- Supervising sports associations
- Developing and maintaining sports grounds
- Domestication and implementation of the national youths and sports policy
- Planning and formulating, reviewing and implementing sports policy
- Developing coordinating and promoting sports at all levels
- Coordinating inter-sectoral programmes among stakeholders for sports development
- Mobilising residents to participate in sports as career through search nurturing and development of talent
- Ensuring provision and development of facilities
- Preparing and facilitating teams to participate in local and international sports event
- Conduct training and research in sports
- Marketing and expanding sports as in industry
- Promoting sports tourism
- Promoting and diversifying sports
- Promoting ethnical and free participation in sports