Raila Odinga's CORD 2013 manifesto
He lost to Uhuru Kenyatta in 2013 after a contesting results in the High Court.
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1. Jobs
This could be achieved through:
- Taking at least one major industry in the rural areas
- Restructuring the Youth Empowerment Fund to meet the youth in Kenya.
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- Open branches of Kenya Industrial Estates all over the country
- Give incentives to banks so as to finance industries that create jobs.
2. Food security
This was to be achieved through:
- Encourage investment in post-harvest processing and preservation and processing
- Promote value-addition in agriculture through the use of taxation
- Introduce crop and livestock insurance schemes and free extension services
- Subsidise farm inputs to ensure increased yield
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3. Security
CORD intended to make Kenya secure by:
- Expanding the use of CCTVs
- Strengthen community policing for safety
- Developing a strategy to strengthen response to terrorism and militia groups
- Create a Directorate of Criminal Investigation, and be independent from the national police.
4. People-led government
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CORD projected to
- Introduce checks and balances in county governments to prevent corruption
- Reform the police force to ensure the police do not delay or tamper with investigations
- Promote full participation of both women and men in governance
- Reform the public service to reward ability
5. Poverty & cost of living
CORD intended to:
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- Increase savings and investment rates by rejuvenating the co-operative movement
- Promote investment over consumption, geared to high-profit taxes and low interest rates
- Keep the cost of living as low as possible by ensuring annual inflation is below five per cent
- Periodically review minimum wages to ensure low-wage earners are cushioned from inflation
6. Social equality
CORD intended to:
- Introduce a pension scheme for those aged 65 and over
- Extend cash transfers for orphans and vulnerable children.
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- Establish a national health insurance scheme that covers everyone
- Ensure that counties meet their constitutional obligations on the provision of basic services
7. Infrastructure & land
CORD aimed at
- Investing
- Introducing a modern integrated rail infrastructure that connects Kenyans
- Addressing historical injustices on land, such as squatter problems
- Empowering county governments to improve, develop and upgrade local roads
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8. Quality education
CORD was to provide quality education through:
- Reduce regional variations in female to male literacy ratios
- Review curriculum delivery to hard to reach children
- Recruit more teachers to correct the high pupil/teacher ratios in some areas
- Link education with the requirements of industry
9. Health care
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CORD intended to:
- Establish a national health insurance scheme
- Extend health education and concentrate on preventive health care.
- Renovate health facilities so citizens are able to access high-quality services
- Train more doctors, nurses and other health personnel and improve their terms of service
10. One indivisible nation
CORD intended to:
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- End artificial ethnic and factional division of the nation, while respecting ethnic, religious, cultural and racial differences
- Streamline and harmonise institutions charged with ensuring national cohesion and unity
- Ensure equal access and equal opportunities to all citizens in their different counties, through positive action to rectify imbalances and through social assistance
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