Over the years and in recent times Kenya has been exposed to a variety of disasters such as drought, floods, fires, and emerging disasters including HIV/AIDS and terrorism among others. The Government of Kenya, in recognition of its responsibility to minimize the impact of disasters has fully embarked on disasters management practices that aim at risk reduction in a framework whose sole objective is sustainable development. It is in this context that there has been put in place administrative, legal and remedial measures during, actual and apprehensive national danger or calamity. This paper highlights the progress made towards risk and disaster reduction in the country, it also poses challenges and workable solutions modeled in Kenya.