When President Mwai Kibaki produced Vision 2030 master plan, it was to envision and implement Kenya’s socio-economic development for the next 30 years, subject to periodic formally endorsed updates. The only shortcoming is this plan was not ring-fenced by a parliamentary instrument, leaving it open to unjustified alterations by successive regimes.
Harmonised long-term development planning enables a country to bridge from one generation to the next, align projects with funding capacity, while allowing managed changes when local and global circumstances change. This is how in 1960-70s Kenya managed socio-economic transition from a colonial state to an economic model that nearly propelled it into an economic tiger.
