11. MDGs and Vision 2030
Vision 2030 is Kenya’s development programme covering
the period 2008 to 2030. It was launched on 10 June 2008 by
President MwaiKibaki with an objective of helping
transform Kenya into a newly industrializing,
middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all
its citizens by 2030 in a clean and secure environment.
Developed through "an all-inclusive and participatory
stakeholder consultative process, involving Kenyans from all
parts of the country," the Vision is based around three
"pillars": Economic, Social, and Political. The Vision's
adoption comes after the country’s GDP growth, from 0.6%
in 2002 to 6.1% in 2006, under Kibaki's Economic Recovery
Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERS). The
Kenya Vision 2030 is to be implemented in successive
five-year medium-term plans, with the first such plan
covering the period 2008–2012 (with the next covering the period 2012–2017, and so until 2030). Under the Vision,
Kenya expects to meet its Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) by the deadline in 2015, with some of them already
met as posted in the Kenya vision 2030 website.