Kenya Vision 2030 is the country's new development blueprint covering the period 2008 to 2030. It aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrialising, "middle-income country providing a high quality life to all its citizen by the year 2030". The Vision has been developed through an all-inclusive and participatory stakeholder consultative process, involving Kenyans from all parts of the country. It has also benefited from suggestions by some of the leading local and international experts on how the newly industrialising countries around the world have made the leap from poverty to widely-shared prosperity and equity. The Vision is based on three "pillars": the economic, the social and the political.
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. For that reason, this vision makes frequent references to projects and programmes scheduled for implementation between 2008 and 2012. While the "flagship" projects are expected to take the lead in generating rapid and widely-shared growth, they are by no means the only projects the country will be implementing. A flagship project only sets the pace for multiple vessels behind it. By the same token, there are many on-going projects and yet others planned for the future by the Government and the private sector. All of these deserve attention and support. The full details will be found in the Kenya Medium-Term Plan for 2008-2012. At an appropriate stage, another five-year plan will be produced covering the period 2012 to 2017, and so on till 2030.