This, as Vision 2030 blue print which aimed to make the country a middle-income state nears its end A section of the Nairobi Expressway/ FILE Kenya is laying the foundation for a new long-term national development road map aimed at driving the country's transition into a first world economy.
Th new blueprint aims at replacing Vision 2030 strategy which is at its tail end. President William Ruto on Tuesday received a proposal titled Developing a New Vision for Kenya: Towards a First World Nation, describing it as the beginning of a national conversation on the country's future beyond Vision 2030.
The strategy, prepared by a team led by Kisumu Governor Anyang' Nyong'o and Japanese scholar Hiroyuki Hino, argues that Kenya can achieve developed nation status within 30 to 40 years. This will however be achieved if the country embraces policy consistency, strong institutions and sustained investment in productive sectors of the economy.
President Ruto said Kenya must move beyond short-term political cycles and adopt a shared national development agenda that survives changes in government. "Development cannot be the project of one administration, nor should every election require us to abandon one national vision and begin another," he said during the presentation at State House, Nairobi.
The President said Vision 2030 had provided the country with a shared direction for nearly two decades, but was approaching its conclusion, making it necessary to craft a successor capable of steering Kenya towards high-income status. Launched in June, 2008 by the third President of Kenya, the late Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s Vision 2030 was aimed at transforming the nation into a globally competitive, newly industrialising, upper middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens.
It was anchored on three key pillars of economic, social and political aspects, all supported by specific macroeconomic enablers.