Globally competitive and sustainable investments, trade and industrial sector.

To facilitate an accelerated growth of the Investments, trade and industrial sectors through provision of an enabling policy, legal and institutional framework.

Values are an integral part of an organisation’s culture, and they create a sense of identity, belonging and purpose.To this end, the State Department seeks to uphold the following core values:

1. Customer focus: We are committed to upholding the highest standard in our service delivery to enhance customer satisfaction;
2. Integrity and transparency: We are committed to honesty, impartiality and transparency while delivering services; 
3. Team work: We will deliberately nurture team spirit, collaboration, consultation and adopt participatory approach in discharging ministerial mandate;
4. Professionalism: We will maintain high level of adherence to set standards through continuous competency development;
5. Creativity and innovativeness: We will continuously be open and proactive in seeking better, acceptable and efficient methods of production and service delivery.
6. Effectiveness and Efficiency: We will be guided by operational, rationalization and cost saving measures;
7. Equity and Inclusivity: We will mainstream gender, youth and special groups’ issues in the distribution of resources, responsibilities and opportunities in the Ministry.