To achieve these objectives, the Gender Affairs Directorate endeavours to undertake the following activities:

• Provide advisory and counselling services when students and face gender based problems in their academic and social lives.
• Provide orientation programs for first-year students about different aspects of campus life, including introducing the environment, gender policy, different forms of gender based discrimination, exploitation, harassment and violence, as well as existing mechanisms to address the same.
• Conduct training programmes in areas of life skills, gender awareness, leadership, assertiveness, anti-harassment code, and human rights.
• Organizing And supporting gender student clubs.
• Conduct programmes to sensitize on the enrolment, performance, achievement and retention of females in science, information, communication, and Technology.
• Support extracurricular activities targeting female and male students to promote positive interactions.

In addition to coordinating these student-targeted activities, the Office also endeavours to do the following:

• Coordinate KIUT Celebration of International Women’s Day (8^th March).
• Seeks To increase gender awareness among the University community.
• Work to minimize gender based and sexual harassment in the University.
• Partner with internal stakeholders as well as external organizations to create synergies and utilise available expertise to achieve shared goals.
• Participate in developing curricula, research, and consulting programmes related to gender responsive society.
• Support Female empowerment in lecturers, researchers and leadership through training, seminars, and workshops.
• Create awareness around HIV and AIDS to empower men and women to make responsible decisions regarding their sexuality.
• Create a mechanism of channelling all gender related grievances to the Directorate so as to seek redress.