PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)

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PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)

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2016 EDITION
 


THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY

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"To form a government based on good governance patriotism, transparency and equity for the restoration, protection and promotion of human rights, civil liberties, freedoms and rights of the individual, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of women, the rights of the child including such as the right to life and human dignity, the right to personal liberty and security of person, the right to property, the right to a fair trial and equality before the law; the freedoms of movement, thought, conscience, expression, press, religion and association and the right to take part in the conduct of public affairs; the right to work and the enjoyment of just and favorable conditions of work"

INTRODUCTION 

BY MR. ISAIAH GICHU NDIRANGU -   NATIONAL CHAIRMAN    

The Kenya we desire is with PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)

The mission and vision of PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is one of national renewal; of a country with drive, purpose and energy ready and willing to face the challenges of the new millennium; the challenges of a healthy growth and development based on tough economic and political choices, the changes in environment and climatic factors so does the need to become increasingly aware of the problems that surround it. With a massive influx of natural disasters, warming and cooling periods, different types of weather patterns and much more, people need to be aware of what types of environmental problems our planet is facing.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) manifesto for Kenya a country of compassion, of confidence and of shared values. We want to awaken and renew Kenyans' collective and individual faith and trust in the ability of its own government, and of its politics; and to remind and reassure us all that we are still Kenya. The Kenya we were. The Kenya we wanted to be. The Kenya we want and the Kenya we want to build. An island of opportunity for all people, not distinguishing them on the basis of class, race and creed; a country of clean leadership; of healthy and competitive growth and development; of a healthy and clean environment with a "city in the sun"; of protected flourishing flora and fauna in our national sanctuaries including the lakes, mountains and oceans; of a people who are healthy and wealthy in positive attitude, sportsmanship and care for the environment and those in need.

In this manifesto, PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) makes specific commitments, based on our vision, to the electorate. We promise to stand by these commitments because we love Kenya, Kenyans and their aspirations and we want each and everyone, and family and community to wake up to a dream-come-true. To a new and healthy beginning of change. Change we have been longing for far too long. Change of a modern society with citizens who enjoy all the freedoms and rights enshrined in international conventions of human rights and citizen rights. Change for unity of purpose founded on the wealth of our racial ethnic and cultural diversity. Change for enhanced conditions for a free market economy without abdicating the state's social responsibility for easing the extreme consequences of capitalist competition; change to gear our efforts towards environmental protection practices and change to enable Kenya play its due role in the integration of the East African region and be available for service to other countries in distress.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) envisages a country with a people whose aspirations and basic needs are reflected in all key tenets of government programmes. The fundamental rights of every citizen, including the right to be a free thinker and entrepreneur, and the basic needs of the physically and socially disadvantaged shall be mainstreamed into priority public investments, as a right.

Our idea of governance is one of collective effort between the government and the people. All people and not just a selection of tribes and communities. Our decisions are based on this premise.

    PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will work in concert with grass-root NGOs and other civic initiatives to continue with the tremendous contribution in strengthening the voice and capability of the poor in both rural and urban areas.

    PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will work in concert with any initiative whose mission is to empower citizens to take charge of their lives and reduce the trend of helplessness and hopelessness that has translated into street persons and mushrooming slums.

    PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will work in concert with any initiative whose mission is to empower citizens to take charge of their lives and reduce the trend of current environmental degradation practices.

    PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will cease to categorize communities unfairly and ethnically to the extent of institutionalizing poverty and stagnation among such communities and relegating them to perpetual soft handouts. Cases in point are Turkana, parts of Eastern, Coast and Nyanza provinces. 

    PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)’s plan is for brave new initiatives to develop infrastructure and mobilize the communities in these affected areas for change development and modernization. A modem airport and free-trade zone amidst modern communication network linkages to all countries. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)’s economic and political policy of demilitarizing the North Eastern Province and converting one of the military airports into a multi-purpose international free port connecting Kenya to the Middle East.

    PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will democratize the decision-making mechanism at all levels in society. A gender perspective will be included in all spheres of our operations from education to environmental management to high policy making positions. 

    PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will also offer capacity building on Environmental advocacy and awareness creation through environmental education and training workshops/seminars, through print, electronic and social media and Civic education focusing on citizen rights to live in a clean healthy environment and need to participate in governance issues.



For example, a PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will ensure the registration of Trade Unions within a framework of reforms that guarantee the collective bargaining rights of workers and employees in both the public and the private sector.




Our Promise to the Kenya People 

Social Justice and Gender Mainstreaming

The PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) believes in gender parity. The empowerment of women to participate fully in a national affairs and leadership is good not just for women but also for the nation at large. Institutional and attitudinal hurdles, which have crippled women's emancipation, will be systematically fought and eradicated. Specific steps taken will include the following:

    Strict enforcement of the sexual offenses act to deter violation of women’s rights.

    Investment in improving facilities for science-based education in girls' schools to reduce the emerging disadvantage of women in science training at University level.

    Offer free pre-intra-, and post-partum care for women.

    Fight institutionalized and other structural disadvantages for women promotion to senior management positions in the public and private sectors.

    Affirmative action to compensate for the present disadvantage women face in leadership until such a time that they can compete more fairly with men. 



At the national level, we believe that a greater participation of women in leadership will properly derive from a constitutional amendment allowing for proportional representation in major organs of national leadership on the basis of a quota system in candidate recruitment for elective office.

Regional Integration

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) believes that the destiny of Kenya is inexorably interview with the destinies of the East African Region. First with Uganda and Tanzania, and then the other neighbouring countries. The quest for greater dignity and wealth for our people must be pursued in tandem with these neighbours. Hence we are committed to a steady and mutually beneficial integration of the region - first into a common market and eventually into the federation of our countries. Our policies on education and trade are based on our determination to harmonize standards in East Africa, re-establish a common labour market, intensify human and resource traffic in the region as a step towards the goal of political integration.

Good Leadership

The party shares the concern of all Kenyans about the bad leadership. We believe patriotic, non-corrupt and informed leadership is the critical engine for preparing our people for the challenges of the next millennium. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) pledges to offer for election, only those candidates who have personal integrity, are committed to serve their electors, and openly reject corruption and betrayal of public trust.

We are committed to cleansing our society of sycophancy, intimidation, bribery and fear. We are committed to a generation change from the current autocrats to a new generation of democratic and enlightened leaders who will truly comprehend and represent the interests of a country in the grip of change. We pledge a safe Kenya for all Kenyans, residents, and visitors, where unpunished killings, governmental brutally, police harassment mysterious arrests will be a thing of the past. Where our youth will be focus of investment as the basis for future property, our women will receive their rightful share in national leadership, and our elders will receive respect and dignity.

Reform of the County Administration

The institution of provincial administration from provincial commissioners, through district commissioners, district officers, to chiefs represents a historical anachronism whose value expired with colonialism. It is the policy of PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) that as part of the process of enhancing popular participation in planning and implementing development, elective offices shall be strengthened through increased role in resource allocation by devolution, this will ensure that the locals are represented at the County and National levels  and also ensure removal of unrepresentative uncompetitive institutions.

To this end, we shall systematically wind down the entire machinery of provincial administration. The development co-ordination functions currently endowed upon the administration will be re-assigned. Professional planning and implementation roles will be co-coordinated by professional officers in the National executive committee under the County Development Officers within the County.

Developed Government

County governments are going to play an even bigger role under PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government. A first step in this will entail an overhauling of the Local Government Act. This will include transferring power from council officers. At a time when the powers of central authority are being curbed and greater democratization of decision-making is taking place, instruments of local expression are going to be critical vehicles of the new management of public affairs.

There is going to be a direct expansion in the role and duties of elective county authorities. Indeed the chairpersons of the county councils will be directly elected by all voters in the jurisdiction, and will assume all the powers. County Representatives will be directly paid salary from the exchequer.

To prepare for this enhanced role, local authorities are going to be strengthened in a number of ways. The powers of the county government minister will be spelt out clearly with a view to increasing grass root autonomy. The ministry shall pay a facilitative role in decentralized decision-making and not re-centralize management through the back door.

The revenue base of local authorities will be expanded as the first step in improving their service delivery. This will be done through a number of changes. The current rating system will be revised with a view to rationalizing rates for different categories of payers, and improving collection. Local authorities will be given a greater share of savings through disbanding provincial administration will be directed to the elective councils. Councils with a limited revenue base will receive special allocations from the central government to sustain their efficacy.

In order to improve the quality and operations of elected councils, professional backup teams will be mobilized to all authorities to advise councils and implement decisions. Increased responsibility and power should gradually lead to greater attraction of professionals and university graduates to work for local authorities and also professionals seeking elective office. Courses for elected councilors will be introduced in government training institutions as a way of empowering elected representatives of the people to deliver better on local development agenda.

EDUCATION FOR EMPOWERMENT
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We shall develop an educational system that reflects the critical importance of human resource development as the engine of sustainable development into the 21st Century.

The key areas of emphasis will be:

    Abolish the 8-4-4 system and replace it with a skill-based programme built on the 7-4-2-3 system but modified to reflect the dictates of national and labour market needs.
    New emphasis on and proper funding for research,
    Systematic expansion of information technology into the classroom, and
    A comprehensive introduction and sustenance of adult literacy education,
    Harmonizing of curricula and standards with Uganda and Tanzania as a step towards re-introducing academic exchanges and working for a common labour market.

Every Kenya child has a citizen right to an elementary education. Government will promote that right through ensuring that every parent has an opportunity and is compelled to take their children to a pre-primary school. Every public primary school will have a government-aided pre-primary unit whose teachers are properly trained and employed by the Teachers Service Commission,

We believe that the formative years are not about competition and crunching. Children are supposed to enjoy school and not see it as a necessary evil. The overburdening of Primary school pupils and the resultant exclusion of play and entertainment must change. We shall facilitate the development of curricula, which recognize the right of children to be children. This includes a well-planned expansion in vocational training and technical education at early levels.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is committed to the nationwide rehabilitation of adult education as a way of opening a second window for self-enhancement and offer retraining, as a way of adjusting under-skilled labour to changing market needs. In addition to adult literacy classes, we shall systematically expand distant and external study programmes at public universities to allow for people wishing to enhance their education while employed to access this important avenue of skill development.

Our policy on tertiary education is to re-emphasize technical and other professional training at non-university level thereby responding to the needs of a growing economy, and making education cost-efficient. Instead of counting success in terms of the number of undergraduate students, we shall strengthen the structures, which support the varied levels of necessary training. 

At University level, PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will convert the Higher Education Loans Board into an Educational Bank to offer loans to all needing students and ensure that no form ones and university student will lose his or her opportunity for an education because of inability to pay fees. We shall streamline curricula at university to reflect the needs of the economy. Through dialogue and tax incentives, we will encourage industry to enter greater partnership with universities and other institutions of higher learning especially in the area of research.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will respect and protect the rights of university students and lecturers to organize themselves into unions and associations of their choice without any external interference. We shall embark upon dialogue with our partners in the East African Community to harmonize educational standards and re-open the student exchange programme as a contribution towards greater integration of the regional labour market and the enhancement of regional solidarity.

As a way of reducing the imbalance between private and public schools, will embark upon a rehabilitation and equipment programme for public schools partly funded from a solidarity tax on existing private schools. Other funds will come from the rationalization of the school milk supply programme to confine it mainly to areas of hardship and nomadic economic practices, and use the resultant savings on the infrastructure rehabilitation.

People based Health Services

Together with education, health will continue to receive the highest priority in our social policy sector. A central tenet of our policy is to mobilize the limited resource at our disposal in the most efficient way to offer the basic health to as many of the people as possible and to rationalize allocation of such resources between the different levels of health service with priority attention paid to Primary health Care and Environmental Health.

We believe that the central thrust of a viable health policy is to seek and facilitate a method of empowering the people to take care of their own health through a sound health education and accessible primary care system.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will systematically move to decentralize the management of health services. District hospitals should gain greater autonomy as self-managing institutions. Planning, purchasing and collection of users fees should be decentralized. Apart from enabling the matching of supply and demand in local health services, this policy will reduce excessive administrative personnel and their red-tape (particularly in Nairobi), raise staff morale in the districts and cut overhead costs incurred in health care. To achieve this, due attention will be paid to the training and mobilization of health managers.

Primary health care is not only the most cost effective level of medicines, but reaches the greatest numbers of people. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)) will implement health policies, which strengthen the three components of this level of medicine. These are:

    Streamline the operations of basic curative services nationwide,
    Increase funding and popularization of public health education and preventive medicine, and Establishment of efficient linkage between primary curative services and referral services,
    Establish   supportive   linkage with   viable   private   health  facilities   especially mission hospitals, which have continued to play a crucial role without due official recognition and support.



Under PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU), the government will reduce its responsibility in direct curative services. Its share of costs in this area must be brought down. This is a service which can be implemented efficiently by a streamlined system of a user charges tailored with need to reduce the burden borne by the poor mind. This will free limited public resources to go into more under-funded areas such as immunization, pre-intra care, post-patum care, health education, contraception, control of vector borne diseases, and child development.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will provide free pre-natal services to women visiting public health care outlets across the country. This programme will be funded from well-managed solidarity tax through which private health institutions will contribute to the rehabilitation and basic equipping of public health outlets.

We will facilitate greater access to health insurance both through the private employer-based packages and an expanded low-cost insurance programme. The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) will be changed from its current practice of subsidizing the rich by the poor to a more equitable one where payment is according to earning, but provision of refund when sick is uniform for all members. This is the only way the average member will approximate the benefits currently enjoyed disproportionately by the wealthier.

We intend to rationalize medical services by directing resources to the improvement of small scale community based facilities like dispensaries, and clinics as the primary points of health services delivery.

The role of district hospitals as regional centers for referral medicine must be strengthened. Apart from reducing pressure on Kenyatta National Hospital, this will ensure that critical services are within relatively short distance for most rural people. District hospitals will need to be strengthened with equipment and personnel to offer basic surgery, obstetric, and gynecologiqal services to the district populations. Provincial hospitals should offer only referral secondary and tertiary services as a step beyond the district hospitals. But Kenyatta National Hospital must be radically transformed into an exclusively tertiary referral hospital.

The structure of medical education will be changed to reflect the new orientation towards community-based health services. This will include greater attention to and more funding for training of paramedical staff, clinical officers, community health workers, counselors, physiotherapists, community nurses and midwives.

Doctor training will shift from emphasis on numbers to quality. Such quality changes will be achieved through greater emphasis of community health in a number of community based changes. There will be obligatory exposure to district-based health services not merely at internship level, but as a regular training. Government will introduce a specialty in General Practice as a way of enhancing competence and professional significance of this important level of medicine. A department of Primary Health Care will be considered for opening at the Medicine Faculty at the University of Nairobi. Senior university staff and all post graduate medical students should be obliged to spend some of their tie in district hospitals.

A lot of health hazards experienced in this country reflect the limited attention given to public health education. This is one of the main vehicles for dealing with preventive medicine, nutrition, family planning, road safety, AIDS, and maternal care. Public education is one of the main instruments for empowering the people to take care of their own physical and mental health.

In this area, information is of critical importance. Packages will be developed paying due attention to educational, generation, cultural, religious, gender and other differences of the target groups. Greater empowerment of the population will help increase interventions on areas of weakness where in the past frustration borne of inadequacy has been bottled up. Open expression will be encouraged as a way of ensuring that ethics and the right attitude when dealing with patients are observed by medical practitioners.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will facilitate greater self-regulation by the members of the health professions. Associations of medical doctors, nurses, clinical officers, and pharmacists have worked under a very constraining environment. Our aim is to strengthen these professional bodies as custodian of standards and professional prestige. Between them, for example, they should be able to develop price lists to be displayed at all clinics showing maximum prices, and they should strengthen regimes of punishment for members who break the acceptable code of conduct.
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We will establish crisis teams at every district hospital and regular clinics in other health centers. Their tasks shall include the identification of assault victims, counseling, training of other staff to deal with victims, prevent infection borne of assault particularly rape, shape attitudes of society towards the victim and perpetrators.

The trend towards decentralized health services and community-based primary health is best suited to greater service delivery on family planning matters. We will encourage greater campaigns on this front. This will include increased cultural sensitivity to the consumer of these services, and more serious information on the dire consequences of a failed campaign to reduce our birth rates.

Inter-linkages with other Sectors

Health is greatly inter-related with other policy areas. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will seek to strengthen the positive linkage between health concerns and other areas of development. Attention will be given to clean water provision through expanded supply and more rational use such as excluding the use of purified drinking water for the construction industry in towns, clean environment, emphasis on nutritional needs in the development of the agricultural sector, regimes of traffic control that will curb the crisis levels attained by road carnage presently, and due attention to occupational health in the work place.

Land Policy

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will immediately establish a Land Use Commission to inquire into the nature of our national land ownership and land use situation with a view to recommending on sustainable land policy. Such recommendations will include matters of the public land which has changed hands due to abuse of office by custodians of public resources, the proliferation of unsustainable land use practices especially into the range lands, environmental considerations in new forms of land use, and the sub-division of land to below economically viable units on the one hand while large tracts of land lie idle due to speculative investment by their owners.

Even as such inquiry continues, PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) has taken a principled stand on current crisis relating to land ownership. The use of public land by leaders as if they are discretionary personal property must be totally annihilated from our political culture.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) shall pass laws where all land in Kenya are automatically issued with title deeds within 90 days to ensure that leaders do not abuse this privileges and Whereas we defend the right of all Kenyans to own land in any part of the country, any public utility land that has been fraudulently acquired, especially national research stations land will be returned to that noble use.

The advances of science have shown that solutions to the land question need not totally derive from re-distribution of existing land. New crop and livestock varieties, and better methods of water harvesting make it possible to increase the human carrying capacity of erstwhile marginal areas. As a way of reducing the displacement of impoverished people and the resultant landlessness, it is our policy that the results of science will be systematically brought bear on increasing the sound use of marginal lands, the reclamation of wastelands and the intensive utilization of high potential areas.

While emphasizing the strengths borne of science, however, it is important that genuine concerns of occupants of arid and semi-arid lands in the face of sustained peasant infiltration cannot be dismissed off hand. It is a reality that the emerging creation of private ownership in rangelands is often facilitating the alienation of critical collective resources. The title deed that often accompanies the sub-division of grazing blocs and group ranches is increasingly becoming an instrument of dispossession and impoverishment rather than the means of access to credit markets it is said to be.

This is increasingly leading to major disruptions to sustainable pastoral resource use; an introduction of non-viable alternative adaptations, and a heightening of local cultural and material insecurity.

The current environmental/land conditions in our country is also deteriorating at an alarming rate. some of the causes of land/environment pollution is Deforestation and soil erosion, Agricultural activities, Mining activities, Overcrowded landfills, Over population, Industrialization, Construction activities. The effects of this forms of pollution are evident too e.g. Environment Degradation, Human Health, Global Warming, Ozone Layer Depletion, Infertile Land e.t.c

In PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU), we appreciate the uniqueness of some of these situations which calls for careful application of broad principles. In areas of the rangelands where local social institutions have adequately controlled the utilization of fragile resources and exclusion of communal strife,

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will allow for the operation of a plural tenure system. Some parcels of land, especially in the neighborhood of townships may transit to the individual tenure system as practices in the rest of the country. In such areas, the right of any Kenyan to own land and pass it to his or her descendants will be guaranteed. In the interior of the pastoral range areas, however, flexibility will be necessary. Those who have retained some form of private communal control of lands resources will get legal recognition as ownership units. Their right to retain such forms of ownership in exclusion of external infiltration will be respected.

We believe that landlessness is partly a manifestation of unemployment and material insecurity. Hence our programme of economic revival and the creation of alternative employment opportunities is central to reducing the landlessness problem.

We believe that in modern independent Kenya, a disadvantage group of citizens should not be permanently labeled "illegal squatters" in their own country, while a privileged few own huge tracts of land, which is not effectively utilized.

We believe that environmental/land pollution calls for the general public and all citizens to be involved. It is something that can be dealt with especially by creating awareness to  citizens / the public on the importance of safeguarding our environment through sensitization, holding workshop in and around the country, through media, through journals, magazines. Putting up strict measures towards the environment / land use.

Housing

We will undertake the following specific measures to address the growing housing problem:

    Facilitate greater attention to building affordable houses using on-going research into cheaper building materials.  Develop such  materials  and  reduce  cost escalation in such material as cement, roofing tiles and corrugated iron sheets.

    A regime of incentives to employers who provide housing for their workers.

    Through a restructured national housing  bank,  we will  offer  incentives to individuals to own their own houses in rural and urban areas through ownership occupier schemes and affordable mortgage programmes.

    Central government to facilitate a return to the practice where local authorities build housing for their residents.

    While encouraging housing development close to the workplace,a PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will also invest in the expansion of  infrastructure,in particular, water,electricity and sewage to pre-urban areas as an  incentive to developers to build affordable houses in such areas.

    The National Social Security Fund will be refocused to invest in the development of low cost housing for workers.



Social Responsibility 

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)) recognizes the urgent need to resolve the crisis of street persons whose numbers continue to increase in our urban centers.

A PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will immediately put into place a practical rehabilitation programme to provide adequate basic needs e.g. clothing, food, shelter and education for the street children and obtain gainful employment for the homeless adults in our cities so that within the first 3 years of our government, the problem of street persons in our cities would have been resolved. In this regard, we shall work with NGOs and other donor organizations to achieve our objectives.

Agriculture

Despite its neglect and mismanagement by the government in recent years, Kenya's agriculture plays a pivotal role in the economy, especially in terms of food and cash crop production, employment, export and raw supplies for industry.


Agriculture, together with forestry and fishing, still accounts for 30% of Gross Domestic Product, 70% of employment and 60% of merchandise exports. The government has not shown appreciation for the pivotal importance of this sector.

We shall ensure that Kenya's agro-economic sectors are given a stable and conducive environment with a set of market oriented policies and signals. This is so that farmers from all agricultural sectors can plan, grow and prosper.

Prioritizing farmer's needs and interests is a fundamental pre-requisite to ensuring that consumers also get a fair deal in terms of uninterrupted supplies at competitive prices and that the economy as a whole benefits. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)) will seek to develop a sound investment environment for farmers by inter alia expanding access to the seasonal credit loan through a farming bank and government-funded insurance against crop failure occasioned calamities like floods and extended drought.

A Policy based on Modern Agricultural Economics

Our agricultural policy is based on the well-tried principles of modern agricultural economics, which have proved successful in other developing countries such as India, Thailand and Indonesia. This involves assessing the market on the basis of all requirements for human needs, the animal feed industry needs, raw materials for manufacturing as well as export and strategic reserve stocks.

For example, if one adopts this principle in terms of maize production then the total annual domestic maize requirement for Kenya is around 40 million bags - well above the current succession of deficit years.

Production has to be increased to meet these total and inter-related demands for all products: grains for humans: grains for livestock which in turn produce meat, milk and wool; oil seeds as well as a variety of cash and food crops such as coffee, tea, pyrethrum, cotton and sisal.

One of the main problems experienced in the agricultural sector has the pervasive corruption in the importation of grains and sugar into Kenya. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is committed to collecting relevant taxes from all importers who have over the recent past evaded duty on such imports, and strengthen the control of imports with punitive taxes to curb current dumping practices, which have hurt the domestic producer.

Marketing, Payment and Inputs

A policy based on Modern Agricultural Economics principles requires a free market framework, speedy and attractive payments to farmers and a guaranteed and competitive supply of inputs.

Free market principles involve the dismantling of almost all government and parastatal marketing and price controls and restrictions on agricultural produce.

This will be carried out on a sector basis due to the variety of existing controls and their applications. In case of price de-control this would be done on a staggered basis by widening the producer and consumer price over an agreed period of time.

Payments

The abolition of market controls will result in most produce being sold in private purchasers who will pay the farmer directly. In the case where there is still some government or other body involved in the payment procedure it is essential that a streamlining method is put into place. For example, wherever the Treasury remains responsible for disbursements it must pay them on time. It is essential that the farmers receive prompt payment at all times.

Inputs

The adopting of free market principles will improve the supply and variety of inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and chemicals. But government co-ordination and back up is also vital. Imports of inputs will be monitored and co-odinated by the government in an accountable and transparent manner so that the country's farmers receive inputs timely and at the most competitive prices possible.

There is still the need for a distributive back up role, which is currently, but inadequately, carried out by the Kenya Farmer's Association. This will be restructured and handed back to farmers in order to properly fulfill its role effectively.


Dairy Sector

A PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will lift producer and consumer price controls on milk. This will stimulate dairy farmers into producing more. Government will give priority to the construction of all season roads in major milk producing areas. The Kenya Dairy Board will be instructed to license all applications for processing, and marketing of milk so long as applicants conform with the relevant health requirements.

There will be more milk produced and more of it delivered onto the market, and milk products will become consistently available. Shortages will become a thing of the past.

Agricultural Export Crops: Tea, Coffee and Horticulture

Tea, coffee and horticulture are Kenya's three main agricultural exports and are vital both for economic growth and agricultural incomes. Because they are so dependent on world prices it is essential that their domestic production conditions are as stimulating as possible.

It will be the policy of a PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government to foster the continuing growth of all sectors of the tea industry so that Kenya moves up from third to second place in the world tea export league. This will involve improving major and rural support roads so that what is produced can reach the factories without unnecessary delays and without compromising the high quality for Kenya tea.

A serious effort will be made to improve the management and operations of the Kenya Tea Development Authority so that it services the needs of the small-scale tea farmers more efficiently and effectively. For example senior management posts will be filled on the basis of meritocracy, and private sector commercial disciplines will be encouraged. Large tea estates will be encouraged to maximize production of existing acreage.

A scrutiny of the objectives and operations of the Nyayo Tea Zones will be undertaken on the basis of their current and potential contributions to the health and growth of the industry. Where applicable their operations will be amended, curtailed, or even closed down.

A serious effort will be made to arrest the decline in quality of Kenyan coffee being produced. This will be incentive-based and not regulation-based like the current outdated practices. They will be based on improving the conditions, and not by such restrictions as banning the uprooting of coffee bushes.

Priority will be given to ensuring that all farmers are paid as swiftly as possible for their crop. Schemes which speed up payments, such as the World Bank/Cooperative Bank funded small coffee improvement project (SCIPII) will be vigorously supported.

Strict monitoring of imports will be maintained to ensure that they are freely available and as competitively priced as possible.

A PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will ensure that the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union will become much more accountable to its members. This, in turn, will encourage the improved management of the KPCU, especially in its central role of milling.

Horticulture

It is accepted that the phenomenal growth in the export of fresh vegetables, fruits and cut flowers has been largely a result of the initiatives taken by the private sector and the absence of excessive government involvement or regulations.

A PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will foster the exciting growth potential of horticultural exports by playing a facilitating and stimulating role. Efforts will be made to reduce the pre-shipment bureaucratic requirements, ensure that airfreight handling becomes a competitive and hence efficient business and that the price of jet fuel is reduced through reduced taxation. The latter should help make Kenyan horticultural products more competitive and increase the availability of air cargo space.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will spear head consultations with other key horticulture exporting countries in Africa with a view to establishing a regional auction to reduce the power of the consumer lobby on pricing and regulation of the trade particularly in flowers.

Manufacturing

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) believes that a healthy, expanding and competitive manufacturing sector is vital to Kenya's economy. Apart from creating more of the greatly needed employment opportunities, manufacturing will create the conditions for increased value from agricultural produce. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will work towards attaining manufacturing expansion by carrying out measures contained in our board programme on economic reform and investor incentives.

In addition our government will particularly encourage agricultural resource based industries, and other industries that have a strategic advantage such as Pharmaceuticals. Such specific projects as manufacturing under bond or Export Processing Zones will be encouraged to grow as a result of the macro policies proposed. No disproportionate amount of resources will be devoted to them.

Taxation

Taxation has become particularly punitive over the years as the government has squeezed hard both direct and indirect taxation.

A PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will widen the personal taxation bands considerably, but at the same time be more vigorous about widening the direct taxation net. It will continue with grater reliance on indirect taxation, but in a more careful and sensitive manner than the practice. We will reexamine the tax administration regime and ensure greater efficiency in revenue collection by introducing legislation to give security of tenure to the Commissioner of Tax and giving the department autonomy equal to that of the Central Bank. Companies setting up industries away from Nairobi will be given tax reliefs as an incentive.


Regional Trade

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is keenly aware of the importance and untapped potential of regional trade to our country's economy. Already our most positive trading results worldwide are enjoyed with Uganda. This must be built on. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) Government will explore and take up realistic opportunities to enhance regional trade cooperation, particularly in the former East African Community countries and eventually in the PTA Zone. This will include efforts to redress the trade imbalance heavily in Kenya's favour by identifying items that Kenya can import more of from the countries concerned. Consideration of resuming cheaper electricity from Uganda is one possible option.

Current efforts at harmonizing the tariff structure between the countries of the East African Cooperation will be strengthened. More aggressive information exchange on opportunities and resources available in the region will be emphasized. Massive investment in improving read and rail and streamlining telecommunications in the region will be our policy.

The Cooperative Movement

The Co-operative sector is a major factor in the economy of Kenya. Accounting for 40% of the country's GDP and with about 50% of the population either directly or indirectly involved in co-operative activities, this sector deserves close attention. The co-operative movement has been weakened by a number of problems under the current government.

Inadequate credit facilities for many, poor and deteriorating management, over taxing of members' produce, delayed payments to farmers. Poor extension and follow-up services by the ministry are among the well-known problems bedeviling this sector.

But above all, the main problem to the cooperative movement is the intrusion and excessive control by politicians, and their interference with the democratic running of cooperative societies and unions.

Under PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) the co-operative movement will continue to play a central role in the agricultural development of Kenya. Specific measures will be taken to resolve the problems that have held back the healthy growth of this sector.

The management guidelines will be developed for societies with weak management. The government will help strengthen management through a strengthening of the management training programmes at Government Training Institute and the Cooperative College. Indeed the current decline of morale and reward for staff at the College can play in strengthening management of co-operative societies.

Further strengthening of management will come through increased visits and on the spot assistance from ministry personnel, greater interaction between societies and unions in different parts of the country, and greater movement to movement interaction between Kenyan and overseas co-operative movements.

Improved efficiency of societies and unions will help in reducing delays in farmer payment, and increase the profit margins of cooperative members. This efficiency has to be accompanied with increased accountability to curb corruption and questionable practices.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will help strengthen the co-operative movement in areas of primary produce where it is currently very weak. Similarly, government fiscal management expertise will be mobilized to strengthen the savings and credit cooperative societies, which have had a great impact on capital mobilization and investment in rural areas. Part of the revamping will entail that powerful personalities who owe a lot of money to these societies are made to pay.

We will streamline the investment guidelines for cooperatives to ensure that there is flexibility for management to make shrewd decisions, while curbing the excesses of corruption and unsound investments. The present trends where co-operative saving societies in rural areas are primarily collecting points for rural savings to be re-deployed into urban credit must be reversed by creating conditions for greater local investment to reduce the rural-urban divide in growth.

The great gains of the cooperative sector realized in the 1970s must be studied as instructive in our pursuit of a revival. The factors here include revival of systematic staff and member training programmes through the Farmers Training Centres, and encouragement for increased support to the donors who have played a major role the birth and nurturing of the cooperative movement in the country.


Tourism:

Kenya's Largest Foreign Exchange Earner

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will make every effort to encourage quality growth in Kenya's number one foreign exchange earner. This is in order that earnings are maximized and so that growth is both healthy and sustainable. Measures will include:

    The improvement and rehabilitation of infrastructure such as airports, water supply and roads.
    Incentives to the industry to upgrade hotel and tour facilities so that Kenya becomes a more up-market destination
    The privatization of the government's direct and indirect holdings in hotels
    The continuing rehabilitation of all game parks and reserves by the Kenya Wildlife Service, and the restructuring of the management of Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
    The setting up of a Tourism Marketing Board which to be run by the private sector
    The   introduction   of  strict   planning   and   building   bylaws   so   that   future developments do not degrade the environment
    Priority will be given to the improvement of security in the game parks and reserves.



It must be emphasized that a PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will play a largely facilitating, not interventionist, role in the industry.

Infrastructure 
As already pointed out there is a major need for the rehabilitation and maintenance of Kenya’s infrastructure in the form of roads, water supplies, energy telephones and sewerage.

A PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government will work out medium and long-term strategies for these sectors in conjunction and in co-operation with Kenya's principal donors. It is accepted that financial assistance for such projects from Kenya's principal donors is necessary because of the enormity of its cost. Our government will revert to a competitive tendering system for these projects and' will make every effort to avoid the sort of excesses and abuses that have taken place under the previous government.

Small Scale Enterprises Development

(Jua Kalis)

We are aware of the important role the Jua Kali sector performs in the national economy and the vast potential both in terms of employment and production that it offers. Employment growth rate in the jua kali sector is estimated to be above 11%, A World Bank Report of 1988 entitled "Employment and Growth in Kenya" estimates that 75% of all new jobs in urban areas and 590% in rural areas will be provided by Jua Kalis.

Despite various pronouncements by the government, little has been done to help the Jua Kali. In fact the interventionist policy of the government and the ensuing harassment of small-scale traders has been hallmark of government practice towards Jua Kali. This must be stopped.

A PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) government sees its role as that of facilitator and not implementer of development in the Jua Kali sector. Small-scale enterprises need fewer constraints and more incentives with which to operate.

We will address the following: 

An Enabling Environment

The system for issuing trade licenses needs to be decentralized, paperwork and regulations reduced. It must be an easier and smoother process to obtain a license.

Physical constraints to the operations of the informal sector must be reduced. To help with security of tenure there must be a clamp down on police and local government harassment, and a review of Local Authority by-laws.

Town plans and building standards need revision to create more space for the Jua Kalis and rationalize the standard of acceptable structures.



Active Encouragement

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) believes that greater participation by the private sector would benefit the Jua Kalis, not least because of the expertise in that area but also because they are businessmen, not public servants or bureaucrats.  Hence certain measures will be encouraged to foster a link between the two sectors. These include:

    Establishment of a Small business Development mechanism to be supported by public donor and private sector funds and personnel.
    An advisory group of Private Sector Business could advice government on evolving policy needs to further strengthen and diversify the informal sector
    The establishment of business centers - tax and related incentives — will help strengthen the technology and information flow to the small-scale sector.   Such centers will become forums for exchange of ideas between large and small-scale enterprises and as platforms for teaching and exhibiting skills.  We will build on the work already carried out by Public and Private Development Agencies, to which the government has typically given lip service.



Framework of Credit Finance

There is a need to channel more funds to the Jua Kali sector. This will come via remodeling financial institutions to appreciate the sector's credibility and encouraging associations of small enterprises lenders to build confidence in the sector.

Review the Joint Loans Board with a view to passing its functions to more user-friendly organizations including NGOs and financial institutions. This will be backed by the establishment of a Jua Kali monitoring unit at the Central Bank.

Promotional Projects

The driving force in this area will be to help the private sector help itself. This will include assisting with the identification and development of more market related training programmes for the Jua Kali sector. This will be boosted by closer integration of Jua Kali technical needs into the courses offered at Institutes of Technology.

Encouragement will be given to apprenticeship system with proper facilitation for trade tests to give recognition to this oft-unappreciated form of training. Tax credits and other incentives will be explored for firms, which train jua kalis. Government procurement procedures will be amended to allow for grater preference for Jua Kali products.

Environment  Policy

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is keenly aware of the futility pursuing development of any kind without due consideration the degradation of our natural resource base. Recent scientific studies have shown worldwide that the trends of development which have given little regard to the environment have come at a high cost to long term sustainability. It has also become clear that the level of lip service offered to sustainability in planning development will not do.

Our natural resource endowment is critical to the world we will bequethe to our children. Our landscape, fauna and floral resources, our water systems, our cultures and our social resources are a major endownment which must never be comprised for short term economic gain. Hence a clear policy on environmental dimension to development and implemented must be developed.

Environment arid Industry

Whereas PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is aware of the critical need for technology-led industrialization

as part of our economic growth, we are not going to assess the gains of industrial growth without due accounting for the environmental damage entailed. The assessment of technological options and strict observance of environmental impact assessment of all industrial projects will be a pillar of our industrial policy.

Under PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)), the government will strengthen the instruments of environmental monitoring and assessment for all existing and new manufacturing projects. Apart from building on the emerging international attention to sustainable development, NPP will seek to establish mechanisms to ensure that we adhere to all international conventions on environment to the extent that they are consistent with our national goals and within realistic means for our implementation. 
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Environment and Agriculture

As articulated in our section on Agriculture, agricultural land use will remain the king pin in our economy for a long time to come. Given the level of technology so far mobilized in this sector, we remain greatly vulnerable to changes in climate and rainfall patterns. This places a great burden on us to develop and utilize sound resource use methods.

hi the past, lip service has been paid to environmental issues in agriculture. We still have farmers applying DDT on their crops in spite of international conventions banning this major health hazard. Many farmers still practice erosion-prone cultivation and cropping systems, large scale cultivation especially in wheat and barley producing areas of the range lands are exposing these regions to sheet erosion in addition to major sacrifices of biological diversity.

These negative patterns must be addressed more seriously now. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is committed to a new approach to the development of agriculture. Fresh impetus in training farmers on the potential impact of unsustainable land use practices on the land and human resources will be emphasized. Due legislation will be brought into place to pre-empt some of the worst excesses.

Environmental Management
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However noble the environmental intentions of any government may be, not much will be achieved without strengthening the institutional capability of implementing those intentions. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is aware of the weaknesses of the current environmental management organs. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU)) will move quickly to redress this situation.

A first step in this regard will be the revamping of environmental monitoring institutions. The ministry responsible for environmental matters will be strengthened and given additional resources to be able to raise attention to environmental considerations, and monitor and punish environmental offenders. This will include the fashioning of relevant legislation for empowering the National Environmental Secretariat to have greater capacity for managing this critical area of national development.

Environmental Education and Awareness
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We in PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) are aware that environmental management and the cost of unsustainable resource use constitute a facet of planning that has received limited attention in past training. Hence government cannot enforce stiff regulations without greater popular appreciation of the great cost that past behaviour will place on our society. To create a basis for common action against environmental abuse calls for greater mobilization in safeguarding our heritage. The surest way in this is increased dissemination of relevant information and more environmental content to what is taught in our schools and colleges.
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Schools and other training institutions are important avenues for raising knowledge and competence in dealing with environmental abuse and wasteful. PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will strengthen environmental circular for all levels of schooling to place this critical consideration into perspective. Specialized courses for environment teachers will be strengthened in the teacher training institutions.

Utilization of Existing Manpower

Greater effort will be placed in mobilizing currently available knowledge on environmental dimension to development and directing it to arresting the unsustainable patterns of resource use already underway in such areas as marine resource exploitation, range, range lands infiltration by cultivation, de-forestation, industrial pollution and work place environmental hazards.

A lot of work on raising environmental consciousness is currently undertaken by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We will seek to create an enabling climate for positive collaboration with such NGOs to further strengthen the public awareness and observance of environmental considerations in productive activity.

The combined effort of existing environmental managers and popular education on sustainable development will place environmental back on the forefront of management, and will increase public resentment of hostile resource use regimes.



Regional Cooperation and Environmental management

More than in most other fields, environment is a clear area where no country is an island. The efforts aimed at curbing unsustainable consumption and resource use patterns in our country will not be enough if our neighbours abuse their resource bases. Indeed major environmental resources are shared by our countries. The regional water systems and their biotic resources, the regional forests and the regimes of bio-diversity in Eastern Africa and the clean air that currently derives from limited industrial pollution are clear areas where a regional approach is imperative upon all of us. 

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) will enter discussions with our neighbouring countries to strengthen regional conventions and practices that reflect a common respect for our shared resources and shared risk. We shall undertake to respect all such conventions in our appropriation of national resources.

Foreign Policy
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Over the past decade, a number of worrying trends in the conduct of Kenya's international policy have been entrenched. At a time of increasing dependence on foreign aid and regional trade, the Kenya government has, through word and deed shown neglect of these critical areas of national interest. At the regional co-operation, to outright identification of neighbouring countries as examples of poorer governance that what exist in Kenya. At the international level, Kenya has failed to honour its obligations to international conventions especially those relating to human rights and in a most undiplomatic trend persisted in abusing the representatives of friendly countries.

In the past decade, the government has performed dismally in regional relations. Kenya has come close to starting war with a neighbouring country on no substantial grounds. We have greatly interrupted the flow of traffic to countries dependent on our port on the basis of individual whim and narrow selfish interests of senior government officials, and in total disregard of our obligation to hinterland countries as a maritime nation. We have unnecessarily bundled into prison camps and eventually inhumanely repatriated people from neighbouring countries even when properly registered and allowed to be in Kenya. Our country has given sanctuary and support to relatives of oppressors and perpetrators of genocide, thus appearing to condone the heinous crimes those dictators have committed against their people.

In the past, Kenya has had a pride of place in Africa. As the home of the Mau Mau, many Africans and their cousins in the Diaspora looked to us for inspiration. Ours was a country of legendary struggles for freedom. Today, we stand in the unusual position as the negation of Africa's aspirations. International notoriety for human rights abuses and virtual absence of a consistent policy on liberation struggle have reduced us to peripheral roles even in regional matters.


The foreign policy of PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) is based on a number of principled. At the global level, we undertake to honour in word and deed all our obligations to international

conventions. We shall play our rightful role in international negotiations particularly those relating to the creation of an enabling environment for the development of the African countries. We shall, with due haste accede to the important conventions protecting human rights. Our foreign policy is geared to the restoration of our tarnished national standing in international and especially African circles as the homeland of freedom fighters and the beacon of human dignity.

Our primary focus of international relations is in the Africa region and particularly Eastern Africa, Apart from being consistent with our commitment to African region integration, this focus is also borne out clear national interest. The path to sustainable development and the pursuit of viable economic growth of necessity require greater regional co-operation and integration than has so far been articulated by the government of Kenya.

The growing international realization of regional inter-dependence in both economic and social fields has brought into sharp focus the need for careful nurturing of relations with neighbours, hi addition, the current international attention to environmental concerns has shown how unsustainable practices in one country such as de-forestation, industrial pollution and pollution of basin water resources can have adverse consequences for neighbouring countries. The only way a country secures its environment, therefore, is by joining forces with neighbours in ensuring a worthy heritage for our posterity. 

The broad economic goals of closer regional integration are in the interest of our country. It is well known that for a long time, Kenya has enjoyed very favourable trade relations with the other countries of the Eastern Africa region. It is therefore regrettable that for opening up their markets to us, these countries have only received passing and often contradictory appreciation by the government. This situation must change.
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Our government shall pay greater attention to this region and seek to strengthen the mutual pursuit of solutions shared problems. We shall aspire to enhance the respect of human rights, the rule of law, and continued entrenchment of democracy in our sub-region. This will be the foundation for mutual respect of the integrity of neighbouring countries in sub-region, ad the basis upon which greater integration can be pursued.

We cherish the long term goals of free movement of persons, removal of tariff and other trade barriers, and close political concord in our sub-region. But we also appreciate the hurdles that lie in the way for this noble goal. It is our view that such political and social challenges will only be resolved in the wake of a deliberate drive for a closer economic co-operation and the creation of an environment of mutual respect between the leaders and peoples of the region.

Judiciary

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) shall ensure that all judicial officers shall be vetted afresh to rid the judiciary of all corrupt officers.

PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC UNITY (PDU) shall also pass laws to ensure that all cases in our courts shall be determined within 3 months of filling to minimize corruption because we believe that when matters stay in court for many years as is the situation now parties tend to engage in the vice.

Also by ensuring that matters are solve within 3 months Kenya shall develop into greater heights as we believe that many cases in our courts drag for many years and this deter growth

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