Ruto to launch post-Vision 2030 dialogue on August 12

President William Ruto has announced that the government will formally launch a nationwide conversation on August 12 to develop Kenya's next long-term development blueprint as Vision 2030 nears its end.

Speaking during a Special National Address on Thursday evening, Ruto described the exercise as the most significant national reflection and public participation process since the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution.

He said the consultations would seek to develop a new national development charter that will guide Kenya's transformation beyond Vision 2030.

"Accordingly, on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, we shall formally launch the National Conversation on Kenya's Future Beyond Vision 2030; the most consequential exercise in national reflection and public participation since the promulgation of our Constitution in 2010," Ruto said.

The President said the process will be anchored on public participation, insisting that the country's next development vision cannot be designed by government alone.

"Our Constitution places public participation at the very heart of governance. It is therefore not merely my desire, but my constitutional duty, to ensure that the national vision which succeeds Vision 2030 is shaped through an inclusive, transparent, people-driven and genuinely national process," he said.

Ruto said the exercise would bring together leaders and stakeholders from across the country to help define Kenya's long-term development priorities.

According to the President, participants will include political parties, county governments, the private sector, workers' organisations, faith-based organisations, universities, professional bodies, innovators, civil society, the creative industry and young people.

"We shall bring together every institution of our Republic, every county and every generation. Leaders from political parties, the private sector, workers' organisations, faith communities, universities, professional associations, innovators, civil society, our creative industries and, above all, our young people will be at the centre," he said.

Ruto said the proposed development charter would translate the aspirations contained in the Constitution into measurable development outcomes capable of improving the lives of Kenyans.

He argued that while Vision 2030 had provided the country with a common development framework for nearly two decades, Kenya now needed a new long-term vision shaped by citizens and anchored in the Constitution.

The President said the discussions should rise above partisan politics and electoral cycles, focusing instead on the country's shared future.

He disclosed that over the past several months he had consulted current and former national leaders, politicians, scholars, business leaders, religious leaders, professionals, civil society representatives, grassroots leaders and young people from across the country on Kenya's future.

Ruto added that he had also commissioned a team led by Professor Hiroyuki Hino and Kisumu Governor Professor Anyang' Nyong'o to examine Kenya's long-term development beyond Vision 2030.

He said he received the team's proposals last week, describing them as ambitious but achievable.

"The thrust of their proposals is both ambitious and achievable: that Kenya can become a prosperous, high-income, industrialised and globally competitive nation within a generation, provided we remain united in purpose, disciplined in execution and unwavering in our commitment to long-term national transformation," he said.

Ruto maintained that the proposals would now form the basis of a broader national conversation involving all Kenyans.

He urged citizens to seize what he described as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to define the country's future, saying the decisions made today would shape the Kenya inherited by future generations.