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Kenya Vision 2030 (Swahili: Ruwaza ya Kenya 2030) is a Kenyan development program, aiming to raise the average standard of living in Kenya to middle income by 2030. It was launched on 10 June 2008 by President Mwai Kibaki .
Vision 2030 is Kenya's current blueprint for its economic future, with the goal of creating a prosperous, globally-competitive nation with a high quality of life by 2030. The plan aims to transform Kenyan industry and environment in three pillars: economic, social, and political. [60] [61]
In 2007, the Kenyan government unveiled Vision 2030, an economic development programme it hopes will put the country in the same league as the Asian Economic Tigers by 2030. In 2013, it launched a National Climate Change Action Plan, having acknowledged that omitting climate as a key development issue in Vision 2030 was an oversight failure.
The development of new and renewable sources of energy is one of the key projects in Kenya Vision 2030, a program launched by the former late President Mwai Kibaki to transform Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle-income country. [48] Over the past decade, Kenya has expanded its access to electricity from below 30% to over 75%. [49]
The key policy is Kenya Vision 2030, [4] which is the long-term development blueprint encapsulates flagship programmes and projects with aspects of adaptation and mitigation. The other key policies include the National Climate Change Response Strategy (NCCRS), 2010; [ 5 ] which was the first national policy document on climate change.
The World Bank has also stated their support for Kenya's "Vision 2030", which is a development blueprint to turn Kenya into a middle income nation by 2030. [5] [6] The World Bank's country director for Kenya is C. Felipe Jaramillo, he also acts as the country director for Rwanda, Somalia, and Uganda.
Despite its high potential for wind energy generation, [1] wind power in Kenya currently contributes only about 16 percent of the country's total electrical power. [2] However, its share in energy production is increasing. Kenya Vision 2030 aims to generate 2,036 MW of wind power (9% of the expected total maximum generation capacity) by 2030.
In July 2009, Kibati was appointed Director General of Kenya Vision 2030. In that role, Kibati spearheaded the implementation of Kenya Vision 2030, the official national strategy to transform Kenya into a newly industrialized country by the year 2030. During his tenure, Kibati, with the support of his colleagues in government, the private ...