Reviewing Kenya's Vision 20230
LAPSSET Corridor: New Impetus KENYA’S Long-term development Blueprint, Vision 2030, launched in 2007, is hurtling toward the end. And Kenyans are discussing a new blueprint- Beyond 2030. Now, it is time to review Vision 2030. Did it deliver? Is it a good foundation to build a new blueprint? Were there weaknesses? What were they? Can they be redeemed? Vision 2030 “aimed to transform Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle-income nation providing high quality of life for all its citizens by 2030. It was premised on three pillars Viz: Economic, Social, and Political. Anchored on Enablers and Macro foundations.” The target is defined. W e can now review it. Did Vision 2030 deliver? According to the scorecard published by the Vision 2030 Secretariat, by 2024 significant progress had been made in all the pillars except the Economic Pillar. The Political Pillar, the least technical of the three, was 88.2 percent enforced. The Social pillar, incorporating education, Health, Clean...