The government has outlined President William Ruto’s key achievements over the last three years, highlighting economic gains the administration is likely to showcase to voters ahead of the 2027 elections.
The 137-page BETA Pillars Scorecard (2022–2025), obtained by The Star, assesses progress in implementing the administration’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda across key sectors of the economy.
The scorecard highlights lower fertiliser prices, increased maize production, expansion of affordable housing, the growth of digital government services, millions of new Social Health Authority registrations and a sharp rise in Kenyans securing jobs abroad.
It also puts figures to the
administration’s interventions in agriculture, micro, small and medium
enterprises, housing, healthcare, education, digital transformation and
employment.
With the elections fast
approaching, the document offers the clearest account yet of the economic
record the Ruto administration is likely to put before voters.
Agriculture is among the sectors where the government reports some of the biggest changes, largely driven by the fertiliser subsidy programme.
According to the scorecard, the price of a 50kg bag of fertiliser fell from Sh7,500 in 2022 to Sh2,500 in 2025, representing a 67 per cent reduction.
The government estimates that
farmers saved Sh105 billion over two years as the quantity of subsidised
fertiliser distributed increased from 1.4 million bags to 21.3 million.
The administration links the intervention to increased food production, particularly maize, and lower food prices.
Maize production increased substantially while imports declined, according to the report.
The wholesale price of a 90kg
bag of maize fell from Sh4,729 to Sh3,569, while the price of a 2kg packet of
maize flour dropped from Sh250 to Sh165.
The government also points to
stronger performance in export value chains, with tea earnings rising to Sh215
billion and coffee prices increasing.
Under the MSME pillar, the
administration highlights the Hustler Fund as a key intervention for low-income
borrowers and small businesses.
The scorecard says 26.5
million Kenyans have subscribed to the fund, with Sh68.3 billion disbursed
through personal loans.
A further Sh196.6 million has
been disbursed to micro and small groups through the programme, which uses a
credit-rating system to classify borrowers according to their repayment
behaviour.
The government says six million
borrowers have attained A-B ratings and can access the Bridge Loan product,
with limits of up to Sh150,000 at an annual interest rate of eight per cent.
Savings mobilised through the
fund stood at Sh4.3 billion.
The government also says it
has formalised the informal economy through registration of 2.25 million micro
and small enterprises and 58,200 associations.
It reports that 31
Constituency Industrial Development Centres have been refurbished, while 177
others have been integrated as aggregation hubs.
Affordable housing is another area where the scorecard reports dramatic growth with the number of housing units under construction rising from 8,872 in 2022 to 161,911 in 2025, an increase of more than 1,700 per cent.
The government says the
programme has generated 330,000 jobs.
It also highlights tax incentives for developers and measures aimed at lowering the cost of housing finance.
The Railway Development Levy was reduced from two per cent to 1.5 per cent, while developers constructing at least 100 affordable houses annually can access a reduced corporate tax rate of 15 per cent.
The Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company has refinanced 3,855 mortgages, with rates as low as 10 per cent compared with a commercial average of 16.2 per cent.
However, the scorecard provides less detail on completed houses available to families and whether the units are affordable to the intended beneficiaries.
Healthcare presents a mixed picture. The government says 25.8 million Kenyans had registered with SHA, compared with eight million members under the former NHIF system.
Of the SHA membership, 21.6
million are new registrations while 4.2 million were transferred from NHIF.
But the report also records
challenges in the health supply chain.
The KEMSA order fill rate
declined from 59 per cent in 2022 to 56 per cent in 2025, meaning the state
medical supplier was meeting only slightly more than half of orders placed by
health facilities.
The government says it is responding by operationalising regional distribution centres in Kisumu and Embakasi.
Local manufacturers currently supply about 65 per cent of required products, according to the scorecard.
On primary healthcare, the
government reports training 107,831 Community Health Promoters, with 100,000
receiving kits and 107,000 being provided with smartphones.
Only 100,000 are currently receiving the Sh2,500 monthly stipend, while 27 counties have supplemented the payments.
It also says the number of government services available digitally rose from 353 in 2022 to 21,535, while monthly revenue collected through digitised services increased from Sh1.45 billion to Sh8.2 billion.
The government says 46,465 kilometres of fibre optic cable have been laid through public and private investment.
It has established 404 digital hubs and distributed more than 21,000 devices. Through Jitume and Ajira, the administration says 297,866 digital jobs have been created.
The report shows that school feeding programme now covers 2.6
million learners, while the government says it has recruited 76,000 teachers
and constructed 23,000 classrooms.
TVET enrolment has more than
doubled to 718,000 students.
On jobs abroad, the government
says 452,447 Kenyans have secured employment overseas, compared with 14,651 in 2022.
Kenya has signed bilateral
labour agreements with countries including the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE,
Qatar, Germany and Austria.
The expansion of overseas
employment has increased the importance of remittances as a source of foreign
exchange.
