The Administration Section is headed by the Deputy Permanent Secretary.  The Section is mandated to provide administrative support and general support services for the entire Ministry.  Additionally, the Section is responsible for ensuring that staff welfare is maintained.  This is done through training (local/in-house), dissemination of administrative policies affecting staff, compliance to administrative policies, ensuring that the tools of trade are procured, monitoring of contracts, monitoring of leave entitlements and ensuring that health and safety rules are complied with. It is the Human Resource Management Center.