Our vision is that all those who choose to gamble are able to do
so responsibly, and without harming themselves or others. To
achieve this outcome,
i. The nature of betting-related harm, and its effects on
individuals, children, families, friends and communities, is well
understood.
ii. There is a similarly good understanding of the personal and
social determinants of betting-related harm.
iii. Regulatory, educational, physical and social environments all
encourage players’ to be responsible.
iv. Reliable means exist to identify individuals who may be
betting harmfully.
v. Effective steps are being taken to reduce or mitigate
betting-related harm through well-developed, tested intervention
and treatment strategies.
vi. Good industry data are available about all forms of betting,
freely shared with those with a legitimate interest, restricted
only by reasonable constraints related to commercial
confidentiality.
vii. Effective information, advice and treatment are available
within reasonable time frames to all those in need of help with
their betting, and to their families, friends and others affected
by their betting.
viii. In addition to operators, a wide range of organizations and
agencies in the public and private sectors accept their
responsibility to use their expertise and resources to inhibit
harmful betting or to mitigate its effects.
ix. The issue of responsibility in betting is approached by all
who have a stake in its availability and impact in a balanced,
supportive and open-minded way, with positive engagement and
mutual respect.
x. Innovation is welcomed. But the precautionary principle is
applied to new products, or to innovation in other areas when
there is good reason to believe they might cause harm
disproportionate to any benefits they might bring. Such judgments
are made after discussion between relevant stakeholders and
careful consideration of the potential consequences of any change
in policy or regulation.
xi. Children and young persons are able to grow up in an
environment where they are protected from betting-related harm.
We don’t claim that we have the capacity nor the expertise
to mitigate this problem but we have the will and purpose to make
responsible betting/gaming in Kenya reality.
We will endeavour to achieve with all effort by:
- Lobbying for the establishment of a Responsible Gaming
Foundation with participation from all industry stakeholders. It
will be financed by an agreed voluntary subscription from industry
players. The stakeholders will be composed of sector leaders,
regulatory officials and members of the health sector. Its primary
purpose will be continuously probing the industry’s efforts
at responsible gaming as well as giving overall guidance on
responsible gaming policy and guidelines for the industry as well
as best practice standards. This will form the backbone of
self-regulation that will see the sector move towards
responsibility and accountability.
- Rallying industry players to participate in an annual
responsible gaming conference where specialists and resource
persons in the area of relevance can share teach and impart their
experiences and knowledge to all in attendance for the mass
awareness of the pertinent issues at hand and how to best mitigate
problems that may arise.
- Engaging health sector partners from Europe who have long and
immense experience in identifying and mitigating betting-related
problems. By offering these possibilities for collaboration with
Kenya practitioners there will be a buildup of human capital
capacity to assist Kenya and thus for the benefit of the gaming
industry as a whole.
- Having an internal 24-7-365 internal on-call counsellor at our
disposal that will both assess at-risk clients as well as offer
the first line of help to those with a betting problem.
- Continuously training our staff on how to assess clients with
potential betting-related problems as well as report to management
for further action. This is in addition to implementing analytics
on customer records/profiles in the casino for early warnings from
tell-tale signs of problems.