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| About Vision
2030 |
“In
2004, the government appointed a team of imminent persons to
the National Economic and Social Council of Kenya (NESC) to
offer valuable advice on critical issues on the country’s
overall development aimed at developing a long term vision for
the country. The team of eminent persons, drawn from the public
and private sectors, the academia and civil society was tasked
with conceptualizing Kenyan’s long term vision, dubbed
the Vision 2030.
The team offered advice on numerous areas including, but not
limited to, new ways for accelerating the pace of reconstruction
and expansion of our infrastructure- in particular roads; promoting
new industries in the agricultural processing sector; changing
the face of our capital city of Nairobi in order to turn it
into an attractive and internationally-competitive metropolis;
new ways of delivering health and education services to the
people of Kenya, and in devising effective ways of promoting
local and foreign investment.
In so doing, they were conceptualizing the blue print for a
prosperous Kenya, a Kenya that will last many generations to
come.
The Vision 2030 aims to make Kenya, ‘a globally competitive
and prosperous nation with a high quality of life’ in
the next 25 years, hinged on three key pillars.
I. Economic Pillar: Maintain a sustained economic growth of
over 10 percent per annum over the next 25 years
II. Social Pillar: Achieve a just and cohesive society, enjoying
equitable social development in a clean and secure environment
III. Political Pillar: Develop an issue-based, people-centred,
result-oriented and accountable democratic political system.
The achievement of these three key pillars, will lead to a social
end that derives a united prosperous community at peace with
itself and its neighbours; a society in which no citizen will
ever be in danger of starvation or hunger, and where access
to adequate shelter, health care and education for all is assured.
A society with conscientious observation of democratic governance,
freedom of worship, the rule of law, free of corruption; a community
in which nobody needs to live in fear that his or her personal
liberties and the right to property will be violated. A key
tenet of the Vision 2030 is underpinned by the fact that it
transcends any government of the day and therefore must be owned
by Kenyans of all cultures, races, religions and geographical
locations. The NESC (National Economic and Social Council),
which comprises of both government and private sector leaders,
is the architect of the concept and has been working to drive
the process forward on behalf of the Kenyan people. At the expiry
of terms for any future government, the Kenyan people must rally
for the continuous ownership of the process so that it is insulated
from political competition at all times.” |
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