Services Offered
1. It co-ordinates an inclusive consultancy services among university community of scholars.
2. It promotes the development and expansion of expert consultancy opportunities for the benefits of the university.
3. It nurtures high level of excellence and high standard of professionalism in research and consultancy.
4. It provides knowledge and skills based consultancy in order to generate extra income for the university.
5. It creates a market niche for the university, by advertising and bidding for consultancies within its realm.
6. We create an attractive brand for the university by facilitating a database of its consultancies in order to aid its ranking.
7. It provides Kenyatta University Academic Staff with extra index of assessment towards promotion.
8. The intellectual competency of the university provide skills and knowledge which involves a degree of collaborative research analysis, advice and teaching, in order to deliver stronger intellectual property (IP) rights to clients of the university.
9. The consultancy provides facilities in collaboration with other approved institutions for enhancing access to higher quality and excellent standard of consultancy
10. The university consultancy unit, provide team work, innovation, professionalism and integrity in management of university human resource, to provide quality assurance practices in consultancy

Thematic Areas in Consultancy
Consultancy services have managed projects and assignments in a number of areas. The unit focuses on the development and conduct of institutional research, generation of research proposals, conducting surveys and other forms of field based studies.
Directorate of Capacity Development and consultancy services (CDCS) has expertise in the following areas of work:
1. Information and Communication Technology (ICT);
2. Agribusiness, agricultural systems development and value chains analysis;
3. Biodiversity, biotechnology and bio-prospecting;
4. Business development and management consultancy;
5. Business systems and performance improvement;
6. Communication, media and film consultancy;
7. Construction, Building, and Real Estate consultancy;
8. Education development and performance;
9. Energy, environmental law, policy and audits;
10. Engineering, systems design services;
11. Entrepreneurship and small business development;
12. Gender equality and empowerment;
13. Global change management, international business and sustainable development;
14. Governance, risk and compliance;
15. Health services and systems development;
16. Impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation;
17. Labor markets analysis;
18. Law and Governance;
19. Leadership, governance and management systems;
20. Macro and Micro economic policy and sectoral analysis;
21. Project implementation and social sector development;
22. Resource mapping and feasibility studies;
23. Statistical analysis, mathematics and actuarial science;
24. Strategic management;
25. Training and curriculum development;
26. Translation, interpretation and intercultural communication.