Kenya Vision 2030

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

July - August, 2007

This publication is a summary of Kenya’s new long-term national planning strategy, officially known as Kenya Vision 2030. The publication briefly states the main goals of the Economic, Social and Political pillars that underpin the
Vision 2030. It also provides a run-down of major, (or flagship) projects to be embarked upon in the Medium Term period of the Vision, i.e from 2008-2012.
The final version of Vision 2030 will be completed after this and other consultations. Kenya Vision 2030

THE CONTEXT OF KENYA VISION 2030
Kenya Vision 2030 is the new country’s development blueprint covering the period 2008 to 2030. It aims at making Kenya a newly industrializing, “middle income country providing high quality life for all its citizens by the year 2030”.
The Vision has been developed through an all-inclusive stakeholder consultative process, involving Kenyans from all parts of the country. The vision is based on three “pillars” namely; the economic pillar, the social pillar and the political pillar.

This vision’s programme plan comes after the

successful implementation of the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERS) which has seen the country’s economy back on the path to rapid growth since 2002, when GDP grew at 0.6% rising to
6.1% in 2006. The relationships between the pillars can be seen in Exhibit
One below.
The economic pillar aims at providing prosperity of all Kenyans through an economic development programme aimed at achieving an average Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 10 % per annum the next 25 years.
The social pillar seeks to build “a just and cohesive society with social equity in a clean and secure environment”. The political pillar aims at realising a democratic political system founded on issue-based politics that