OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES

STRATEGIES AND MEASUERES

IMPLEMENTING AGENCY

TIMETFRAME

Reduce poverty by 50%

Ensure that the government will aim at ensuring Kenyans have basic needs

MOF, MLHRD, FKE,COTU, other stakeholders

Over the next five years

Provide free and effective health services

Address issues of health personnel, develop sport facilities, financing and provision of drugs, and rehabilitation of duplicate health service infrastructure, review the Public Health Act, assist those infected by HIV/AIDS, establish a medical Scheme for all Kenyans, continue research for cure of terminal diseases

MoH, MCSV, other stakeholders, attorney general

2008

Support Sound Industrial Relations

Build capacity of the industrial courts;

Establish a court of appeal at the industrial court;

Build the capacity of COTU, FKE and MLHRD

Religious organizations and political parties

Continuous exercise

Sustain the morality of the society

Enforce and implement National and universal laws of justice

MoF, KRA, Parliament, AG Chambers

Over the next three years

Reduce the overall rate of taxation

Harmonize and codify the taxation laws,

Widen the tax base and improve tax collection

Improve tax collection and tax holidays to encourage both domestic and foreign investments

Ministry of land and settlement, Ministry of Natural Resources, office of the President, AG, and other stakeholders

Continuous exercise

Formulate a National Land Policy and Strategy

Harmonize the different land laws such as agricultural, pastoralism, wildlife, forestry, individual locations in tourism, and human settlement, accelerate registration and titling of land, open new settlement scheme for landless,

address the issue of absentee landlords

MLS, MENR, OP, Other stakeholders

Immediate

Moral and Religious Organizations

Maintenance of law and order; development of health and education facilities, Conflict resolution

MCSS, NCCK, SUPKEM, other stakeholders

Continuous exercise

Fight against HIV/AIDS, alcoholism drug abuse and other social problems

Work with religious organizations to promote peace and unity and ensure there is a national day of prayers

MCSS, NCCK, SUPKEM, OP, other stakeholders

2008

Work for a safe and peaceful, free of ethnic strive and violence

Provide adequate numbers of personnel with adequate and modern equipment, train the police public relations, communications skills and ICT, introduce village community policing

OP, MLG, NCCK, SUPKEM, other stakeholders

Continuous over the next five years

Fight against corruption

Ensure that anti corruption agencies are provided with necessary and sustained legal support

MJCA, OP, KACCA, TI and other stakeholders

Continuous

Undertake a Comprehensive Constitutional Review that is de-linked from the electoral cycle

Oversee implementation of the necessary legal and economic reforms

MJCA, Judiciary, COTU, FKE, NCCK, SUPKEM, Parliament, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, other stakeholders

Immediate

Provide the youth with the necessary leadership and business skills, education and training employment and credit

Establish youth development policy and training programme,

MoY, MoE, MLHRD, other stakeholders

Continuous

Guarantee freedom of worship and mass media

Establish family life programmes in our education systems

NCCK, MCSP, SUPKEM, MoE, other stakeholders

Immediate

Ensure equal opportunities for women, physically-challenged, and the elderly in areas of public life to attain equity

Provide productive resources such as land, credit, housing, and employment; formulate a national policy for the elderly people, establish homes for the elderly, domesticate the UN convention of the Rights of Persons with Disability, implement in full Persons with disability Act 2003

MOLS, MOE, Other Stakeholders

Immediate

Nurturing the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation among Kenyans

Ensure direct access to affordable credit; guarantee an enabling environment for the private sector; add value to Kenya’s products

MOTI, KAM, COTU,FKE, Other stakeholders

Continuous

programme

Improve and maintain efficient infrastructure including roads, waterways, pipeline, rail ,post and telecommunication system and provide affordable rural and urban housing

Extend oil pipeline to Kampala; modernize the East African Refineries in Mombasa; open the Northern Corridor by building by pass in major towns, establish dual carriage ways, make Mombasa a free port, develop a port at Lamu, improve and expand Kisumu, Malindi and Wilson airports, modernize the passenger train to international standards and develop a programme to reform the energy sector

MPWH, MOTC, MOE, Other stakeholders

2008/2009 financial year

Pursue independent foreign policy to promote EA Unity, regional cooperation and African integration

Enact new laws and protocols on regional issues; remove non tariff barriers (NTBs), disseminate information on existing treaties, review trade agreements, continue negotiation with European Union in the EPAs

MFAIC, MTI, MPND, Other stakeholders

2008

Preserve, conserve, and maintain a healthy environment

Protect all forests, wild life sanctuaries, water catchment areas and flora and fauna, demarcate all forest land, build capacity for KWS and NEMA, ban the use of polythene papers, promote agro forestry, conserve and develop the wetlands

MENR, KWS, NEMA, Other Stakeholders

Continuous

Make Jua Kali and Small Scale Enterprises to continue generating employment contribute employment generation

Provide urban land to the sector; extend affordable credit; develop training programmes for the sector

MLHRD, MCSS, MLS, MLG

Continuous

Promote a modern and productive agriculture and cooperative sectors

Enhance new technologies; develop a proactive ;and policy; ban the export of Kenya Agricultural Raw materials; maintain rural infrastructure; increase budgetary provision for research to 5 percent of GDP;

Reduce post harvest losses; complete the privatization of sugar factories; invest in seed multiplication and certification se vices; strengthen the management of the cotton Board; increase Bixa Research and extension services and provide free bixa seed and better marketing system; encourage the private sector to invest in cashnenut production and marketing; streamline the role played by CBK, KPCU, KMC, KCC, KTDA, NCPB and primary Cooperative Societies; enhance the implementation; Intensify The Use Of Fertilizer; liberalize the pyrethrum production and Marketing; encourage production of macadamia nuts, citrus, coconuts, sisal, traditional crops, simsim, sunflower, castor, soya bean and ; rapeseed improve food security for all people, establish a strategic food policy, improve food distribution and information systems, increase food strategic reserve to 10 million bags; develop food import – export strategies, improve the performance of the livestock sector, improve the artificial insemination delivery system, ban the export of all livestock raw materials, hides and skins and live animals among others, improve breeding stock for dairy cattle, beef, poultry, sheep and goats

MOA, MLFD, MCD, HCDA, and other stakeholders

2008/2009 fiscal year

Improve efficiency and effectiveness in trade in services

Develop a tourism policy, diversify integrate sports and tourism, build capacities of KTB, KTDC, KATU, and other tourism development agencies

MOA, MLFD, MCD, HCDA, and other stakeholders

2008/2009 fiscal year

Improve efficiency in the fishing industry

Establish a credit scheme for the fisheries sector, establish refrigeration or cold room along the trading centers in the Lake shores and at the Coast estuaries, increase investment in fisheries development

MOA, MLFD, MCD, HCDA, and other stakeholders

2008/2009 fiscal year

Develop a programme that will improve the livelihood of the people living in the ASAL areas

Provide sufficient water both for human and livestock; improve infrastructure and develop markets

MLS, MPNS, MPWH, MLFD and other stakeholders

Immediate

Develop a disaster management policy and programmes to deal with droughts, floods, disease outbreaks, terrorism, ethnic conflicts

Develop a disaster recovery programme, develop a disaster early warning system, develop a conflict resolution mechanism, develop a programme for dealing with terrorism, floods and other disasters, and establish an autonomous Disaster Preparedness Institute (DPI)

OP, MOA,MFLD, MLFD, OVP/HA and other stakeholders

Immediate

Provide free compulsory secondary and targeted technical training, make university relevant to the labor market and self employment

Expand education infrastructure,

reduce student teacher ration, improve teachers skills and knowledge etc, establish Kenya Education Policy Research Institute

MED, Universities, CHE, And other stakeholders

Immediate

Make Local Authorities effective and efficient

Review and revise the Local Government Act Chapter 265, enhance physical planning of the rural trading and market centers

MLG, MJCA, Attorney General, Parliament

Immediate

Improve the economic performance of the banking sector

Build capacity at the Capital Markets Authority(CMA), create sector banks, reduce government borrowing in the local market, make NSSF a source of venture capital, use pension funds for venture capital, provide incentives to banks and micro finance institutions operating in the rural areas

MOF, CBK, CMA, NSSF, NHIF, and other stakeholders

Continuous

Provide an enabling environment for consumer organization to play rightful role to ensure consumer get quality, safe and fairly priced goods and services

Develop a national safety policy, build capacity of KEBS, KEPHIS, DVS,DPH, DFI, HCDA,PCPB and other stake holders

MTI, MOE, MLFD, MOA, other stakeholders

Continuous

Improve welfare of the physically and mentally challenged persons

Create a national trust fund for the affected, domesticate etc

OVP/HA, OP, MOF, APDK and other stakeholders

Continuous from 2008/2009 budget

Develop adequate sporting and recreational facilities

Increase investments in sports development ,establish a National Sports academy, make sports a tourist attraction, develop district stadia

MCSS, AK, NOCK, MOE, MOY, other stakeholders

Over the next five years

Improve the welfare of the elderly

Formulate a national policy for the elderly people, provide free medical care to the elderly, establish home for the elderly and build capacities in the existing ones

MOE, OVP/HA, Parliament, Attorney general, other stakeholders

Immediate

Harmonize the relationship among population, unemployment ,poverty and environment and natural resources

Manage poverty reduction programmes efficiently and effectively and intensify Family Planning Programmes

MPND, OP, NCPB, MENR, MLHD, and other stakeholders

Continuous

Improve the welfare of women

Ensure women are involved in decision making by creating special seats in parliament and local authorities; Ensure that 50 percent of the cabinet and parastatals are women, outlaw early marriages for school going girls, provide free sanitary towels

MJCA, Maendeleo ya Wanawake, Parliament and other stakeholders

Immediate

Improve efficiency and the growth of leisure and entertainment industry

Import entertainment equipment duty free, encourage courses in music, drama and film making in our schools, reward and protect intellectual property and music, and protect our artists from piracy

MOCSS, Private sector organizations, property rights

Immediate