President William Ruto speaking during the National Conversation: Beyond Vision 2030. [PCS]
With less than four years left before the expiry of Kenya’s Vision 2030, President William Ruto has launched the process of developing a new long-term national development blueprint that will guide the country beyond 2030.
The President says the proposed Beyond Vision 2030 framework is necessary to ensure Kenya does not enter the next decade without a clear development plan, as the current medium-term planning cycle will extend beyond the lifespan of Vision 2030.
Speaking during the National Conversation on Beyond Vision 2030, Ruto argued that the country needs to begin planning for the period after 2030 before the current blueprint expires.
“Vision 2030 will come to an end in the next three years, [while] Medium Term Plan Four will come to an end in 2027,” he said, adding that the next medium-term plan would overlap with the final years of Vision 2030.
“For us to plan Medium Term Five, it is going to take us from 2027 to 2032, yet Vision 2030 is ending in 2030. We need to have the longer-term vision for us to plan the Medium Term Five,” he said.
But beyond the expiry of Vision 2030, Ruto argued that Kenya itself has changed significantly since the blueprint was developed.
Vision 2030, launched in 2008 as Kenya’s long-term development blueprint, set out ambitions for transforming the country into a newly industrialising, middle-income economy.