Kenya Kwanza Alliance Manifesto; Breakdown Of Ruto's 'THE PLAN' If Elected President

In his 66-page manifesto, Ruto, who has been a vocal opponent of President Uhuru Kenyatta for the past five years, includes some of the Big Four Agenda proposals. The Kenya Kwanza leader pledged to give priority to a number of important areas, including housing, industry, healthcare, and agriculture.

His bottom-up economic strategy, which he has been advocating over the past two years, was reflected in the manifesto.

1. Agriculture

Ruto promised to turn around the agricultural sector by reviving collapsed factories and companies such as Mumia Sugar, offsetting debts and streamlining service delivery. He also promised to invest in technology and modern farming practices to boost production.

Here are some of the key points:

Ensure that all farmers have access to sufficient, affordable operating finance through cooperative societies.
Utilize cutting-edge risk management strategies for agriculture to make sure that farming is profitable and that income is predictable. The instruments include price stabilization plans, forward contracts, futures contracts, and insurance plans for crops and livestock traded on the commodity markets.
2 million underprivileged farmers might become surplus food producers with the help of input financing and extensive agricultural extension assistance.
Increase the productivity of the major food supply chains (8–15 bags of corn per acre, 2.5–7.5 kg of milk per cow per day, and 110–150 kg of beef carcass weight).
30 percent less reliance on imports of basic foods (domestic oil crops production from 5 percent to 25 percent , rice from 18 percent to 40 percent ).
Upgrade failing or failing export crops and grow new ones (coffee cashew nuts, pyrethrum, avocado, macadamia nuts).

2.Healthcare

The Kenya Kwanza government committed to hiring additional community health care service professionals and enrolling every Kenyan in Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Additionally, the Ruto-led team vowed to create the Health Service Commission, which would have a centralized administration like to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

Other crucial details

Give patients the option of choosing between public and private healthcare providers based on a controlled tariff when it comes to entirely publicly sponsored primary healthcare (preventive, promotive, outpatient, and basic diagnostic treatments).
With mandated national insurance (NHIF) as the primary and private insurance as the secondary coverage, there is a universal, seamless system of health insurance.
Create a national fund that will be supported by a combination of insurance premiums and government spending to pay for the costs of chronic and catastrophic illnesses and injuries (such as cancer, diabetes, strokes, and accident rehabilitation).
To increase openness and accountability in the public procurement process, create a stakeholder-managed national procurement plan akin to the petroleum products procurement program.
Increase earnings-based progressive NHIF contributions. (High-income earners must pay KSh 3,000 per household per month, while low-income earners must pay KSh 300.

3. Education

The Kenya Kwanza government will

Pay for government-sponsored in-service teacher training.
Within two fiscal years, close the present 116,000-teacher shortage gap.
Create a Special Service Tariff for all educational institutions for essential utilities to make learning more convenient.
By establishing alternative entry criteria, the current exam-based system of academic progression—which has barred millions of students based on basic education level exit exams—can be revised.
Enhance secondary day schools’ ability to offer access to high-quality education while lowering costs.
HELB, TVET, and University Funds Board should be merged into a National Skill and Budget Council, and funding should be increased to close the present funding gap of 45 percent.

4. Social protection

Within three years, the Kenya Kwanza government promised to enroll all senior persons in the NHIF program. The coalition also pledged to restructure the cash distribution programs for senior citizens and other disadvantaged households in order to increase coverage, accountability, and operational effectiveness.

Other key points include:

Spend money on medical staff education and training to fill the skills gap in providing specialized care for elderly patients.
Ensure that PWDs have 18 months to receive full NHIF coverage.
Integrating students with disabilities into the general population from an early age helps them regain their confidence and self-esteem.
Combine the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) and the National Fund for the Disabled of Kenya (NFDK), and submit to parliamentary scrutiny for accountability.
Increase the number of students with disabilities by 50%. 15% of all public-funded bursaries designated for students with disabilities should be put aside.
Set aside an appropriate portion of the Hustler Fund for PWDs.
Make sure that PWDs receive 5% of all market stalls.
Make sure 5% of AGPO should be for PWDs with an increase in the LPO financing Fund

5. Governance

Ruto implemented and operationalized Kenya’s 2010 Constitution.

Ruto stated that in order to do this, his government will:

granting the Office of the Attorney General the resources and capabilities necessary for it to protect the public interest in court and ensure the independence of the judiciary and all other independent institutions
Create a quasi-judicial public investigation to determine the level of cronyism and state capture in the country and to provide suggestions in order to end state capture.
Strengthen devolution, for example, by ensuring that sharable revenue is given to counties in a timely, predictable, and legal way, and by guaranteeing that all duties designated in the constitution as devolved functions are fully passed to counties within six months.
Establish an engagement platform akin to the defunct Economic and Social Council and convene an annual State of the Nation Forum as an extension of the national consultative economic forums that have been a key element of this push to strengthen leadership accountability.
Put an end to all sorts of extrajudicial executions, police brutality, and ethnic profiling.

6. Women agenda

Under this program, the Kenya Kwanza government will:

Support women’s initiatives like as women-led co-operative societies, chamas, merry-go-rounds, and table banking financially and by strengthening their capacity through the hustler fund.
Within a year of an election, the public sector must implement a two-thirds gender rule for all elective and appointed roles, with 50% of cabinet positions going to women.
Increase financing for the Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Board and staffing levels at gender desks in police stations.
Create a social welfare fund for Kenyan women who work overseas to act as a safety net for displaced people.

7. ICT

Kenyan ICT start-ups will receive 5% of the KSh 50 billion Hustler Fund, thanks to Ruto’s administration. In each of the industrial parks that will be established in the TVETs, it will also construct ICT labs and incubators.

The Kenya Kwanza administration also plans to install fiber in villages, schools, establishments, and residences.

Ruto promised to locate and eliminate the bottlenecks holding back Kenya’s BPO (Business Processing Outsourcing) business (and digital transform).

8. Housing and Settlement

Under this program, Ruto promised to build 250,000 new affordable houses every year through a public-private partnership.

The Kenya Kwanza government will also grow the number of mortgages to one million and establish a Settlement Fund to acquire land and resettle landless families.