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KANU MANIFESTO 2022-2027

Foreign Relations and Trade- Foreign Policy

AGENDA 1 Kenya’s Foreign Policy aims to achieve several national objectives,

among other things to Protect Kenya’s sovereignty and territorial

integrity; Promote integration; Enhance regional peace and security;

Advance the economic prosperity of Kenya and her people; Project
Kenya’s image and prestige; Promote multilateralism; Promote the

interests of Kenyan Diaspora and partnership with the Kenyans
abroad.

Kenya’s foreign policy is anchored on five interlinked pillars that characterize her bilateral and
multilateral engagement. These pillars are Peace, Economic, Diaspora, Environmental, and Cultural
(Republic of Kenya 2014). Kenyans living abroad sent home a record Ksh.421.6 billion ($3.718 billion) in
2021 (CBK, 2021) up from Ksh.350.9 billion ($3.094 billion) in December 2020. According to the
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, this is from an estimated four million Kenyans living and
working abroad.
Remittance by Kenyans abroad

Funds Kenyans living abroad sent home in 2020 according to CBK

Total Funds Kenyans
KES 421.6 living abroad sent
billion
home in 2021

Our Vision
We envision to realize a proactive, concrete, and consistent foreign policy on the economy,
peacebuilding, environment, culture and diaspora relations that commit to making Kenya competitive
globally.
Our Plan
We plan to advance the economic prosperity of Kenya and her people by protecting Kenya’s
sovereignty and territorial integrity, promoting sub-regional and regional integration and cooperation,
enhancing regional and global peace and security, projecting Kenya’s image and prestige, promoting
international cooperation and multilateralism, promoting and protecting the interests of Kenyans
abroad and enhance partnership with the Kenya diaspora and descendants.
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