Arts, Sports & Culture: Celebrating the best in the world SOLUTIONS Establish a National Lottery Scheme, boosted by National budget allocations to fund and support professionization of local sporting leagues across the major sporting disciplines. Pursue tax incentives for individual and private sector investors in Sports, Arts and Entertainment sectors. Provide both the national teams and the domestic leagues with all the support they require while respecting their autonomy. Facilitate and encourage the better management of sports. Facilitate the professionalization of sports through introduction of professional coaches in schools. Establish youth development centres in all counties that will house a fully equipped library, an ICT hub, five sports pitches (football, swimming, basketball, netball volleyball) and a social hall. Build five new national sports stadia in Kisumu, Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret and Garissa, while upgrading existing sporting facilities at the County level to accomodate swimming, tennis, basketball and rugby. Support the Kenya Motorsport Federation to ensure Kenya gets back the Safari Rally in the WRC (World Rally Championships) calendar. Roll out a network of National Academies for young people, each one specialising in a particular sports or branch of creative arts. Establish a series of national youth competitions, such as a national youth soccer tournament, so as to identify suitably skilled entrants for the academies. Bid to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Establish a series of ‘creative industry hubs’ with full infrastructure facilities such as high-speed internet and design studios as low-cost incubators for new creative industry offshoots and artists. Fund cultural and sporting projects and facilities such as social halls in order to promote indoor sports such as boxing and to provide a place where people can meet and exchange ideas. Promote indigenous Kenyan creative and production talent by establishing a Kenya Film School and increasing domestic Kenyan content on our television channels to 60% - half of which should be independently produced. Increase support for the Kenya Film Commission so that it can improve its facilities with a fully equipped National Film and Animation Studios to promote local talent and innovation. Promote the performing arts by constructing an ultra-modern National Theatre with audio-visual live-links in Nairobi. Consolidate the required licenses for artistes/ musicians to perform around the country on a single license.
Agenda for Kenya 2013 - 2017 and beyond
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