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The Government of Kenya has listed four key development priority areas dubbed the 'Big Four Agenda' in response to the needs of Kenyans. Development partners that focus on TVET and Youth Employment contribute to this agenda through the various activities they fund.

(Source http://www.president.go.ke/)

1. Enhance Manufacturing

Textile/Apparel/Cotton

  • By 2022, 500,000 jobs are targeted for this sector and an additional 100,000 in the apparel industry. To achieve this policy reviews for sector and incentives will be conducted, 5msq ft of industrial sheds will be constructed, 200,000 ha of BT cotton grown and train 50,000 youth and women.

Leather

  • Train and set up 5,000 cottage industries that will create 50,000 new jobs and 20 million new shoes made by 2022. Machakos leather park will also be completed.

Agro processing

  • A total of 1000 SMEs creating 200,000 jobs are targeted for this sector. This will be achieved through mapping of tea, coffee, sugar, meat, dairy and crops value chains, develop warehousing and cold chain sites and progress Mombasa food hub concept.

Construction materials

  • 10,000 news jobs are targeted for this sector. Specific initiative will include identifying key housing components and manufacturers and advance a buy Kenya policy (70% of total) for housing materials.

Oil mining and gas

  • Attract one global player in mining value add

Iron and steel

  • Core and iron ore deposits will be established and a joint venture concluded with a manufacturer

ICT

  • 10,000 jobs are targeted from business process outsourcing companies in phone, laptop and television assembly plants.

Fish processing.

  • Fish feed mill investment is expected to yield 20,000 jobs

2. Food Security and Nutrition

Enhance large scale production

  • Place an additional 700,000 new acres through PPP (including idle arable land) under maize, potato, rice, cotton, aquaculture and feeds production

  • Form an Agriculture and Irrigation Sector Working Group (AISWAG) to provide coordination for irrigated Agriculture.

  • Use locally blended fertilizer on a 50/50 basis.

  • Avail incentives for post-harvest technologies to reduce postharvest losses from 20% to 15% e.g. waive duty on cereal drying equipment, hematic bags, grain cocoons/silos, fishing and aquaculture equipment and feed.

Drive small holder productivity

  • Establish 1,000 targeted production level SMEs using a performance based incentive model in the entire value chain

  • Improve access to credit/input for farmers through Warehouse Receipt System and strengthen commodity fund

  • Establish commercialized feed systems for livestock, fish, poultry and piggery to revolutionize feed regime and traceability of animals

  • Establish East Africa’s Premier food hub, secure investors to construct a Shipyard (in 2018 – site existing) and increase domestic fishing fleet by 68 Vessels in the Coast

Reduce cost of food

  • Contract farmers for Strategic Food Reserve and other commercial off-takers

  • Redesign subsidy model to maximize impact by focusing on specific farmer needs (flexible voucher and incentive based model)

  • Secure investments through PPP in post-harvest handling (storage, cold storage for fish, aggregation) and market distribution infrastructure to reduce losses

  • Eliminate multiple levies across counties in the agriculture value chain (enforce laws on roads)

3 Universal Health Coverage

Initiatives:

  • Scaling up of National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) intake by creating customer friendly processes introduce multi-tier benefit packages and enlist 100,000 Community Health Volunteers to each recruit 20 households.

  • Legal reforms to align NHIF to UHC.

  • Adopt agency model by enlisting 37,000 banking sector agent networks, 4 banks and 3 mobile telecom networks

  • Gradual increment of budgetary allocation to health

  • Adopt new low cost service delivery models such as e-health for telemedicine, m-health and eHubs collection and dissemination of information.

4. Affordable Housing

Attain 500,000 new homes by:

  • Developing demand based master plan for social and affordable housing.

  • Unlock land for development by identifying land against affordable housing targets and create incentive for private land owners or idle land tax.

  • Reduce construction costs.

  • Scale up developer capacity and financing

  • Grow mortgage finance market

Ensure a supportive eco-system such as fast public processes, reduce administrative and burden cost and align county development plans, zoning and location selection an public infrastructure spending

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