We are delighted to officially announce the launch of our Strategic Plan for 2017-2022 that has set out both our direction and plan for the next five years. The journey towards the launch of the strategic plan (SP) began in May, 2015 with consultancy from the Kenya School of Government.

This was followed by series of stakeholder consultations, drawn from staff, the board of the agency and other intellectual property (IP) protection interest groups. The development of the plan allowed us the opportunity to reflect on all of the progress made since inception in the year 2010 based on the first strategic plan that elapsed in June 2017. The first strategic plan left an indelible mark on the road towards enforcement of intellectual property rights in the country.

The continued threat by trade in counterfeits brought about the need to re-evaluate our enforcement and public awareness strategies to address both the supply and demand side of counterfeiting. It is our ambition to build on the progress that was made by the first strategic plan by strengthening existing strategies and to identify new opportunities in order to make Kenya a counterfeit-free country.