NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - KENYA

Facilitation of the work of Council and its committees is the responsibility of the Council Secretariat headed by the Secretary to Council and supported by the technical and support services.

Technical Services: - This comprises of scheduled science units undertake technical operations of the Council. Each unit is headed by a Chief Science Secretary who works with various cadres of science secretaries that are specialists in the various sciences. The science secretaries generate, prepare and submit for Council discussion, policy papers containing advice relevant to the development of all aspects of national research, science and technology policy in a specific science area. Therefore Schedules routinely undertake the following:

Currently there are the Agricultural, Biological, Health, Industrial, Information, Physical and Nuclear, Social and Environmental Science schedules.

Support Services: - The Research Coordination Division, Administration, Accounts Divisions as well as internal Audit and Procurement units respectively provide coordination and support services to the scheduled sciences.

In terms of scientific information documentation, there is the Kenya Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (KENSIDOC), is largely a referral information resource centre for the national scientific community. KENSIDOC exists to document scientific and technological literature and to enable the scientific research, and policy- and decision-making communities identify and access relevant literature on science and technology available in the country.