Study to identify strategies and programmes to eradicate poverty and improve employment and equity restructuring in Sabah and Sarawak
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Study to Identify Strategies and Programmes to Eradicate Poverty and Improve Employment and Equity Restructuring in Sabah and Sarawak |
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Identification of strategies and programmes to eradicate poverty in the poorer states of Sabah and Sarawak
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Background
Under the New Economic Policy (NEP), the Malaysian Government established a 20-year time frame to reduce absolute poverty aimed also at eventually eradicating it, and restructuring society to equalize economic opportunity for all Malaysians by eliminating the identification of economic function with race. Poverty eradication and economic restructuring remains the prerequisites to create a united and equitable society after the NEP.
Development Objectives
This project is aimed at assisting the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Ministers Department, and State Economic Planning Units of Sabah and Sarawak to identify the main factors that will support poverty and equity restructuring efforts in Sabah and Sarawak.
Activities
- To derive findings related to poverty, equity and inequality among communities in Sabah and Sarawak using the Household income Surveys, Household Expenditure Surveys and the Labour Force Surveys collected by Government
- Conduct qualitative interviews through focus group discussions with communities in the Sabah and Sarawak, particularly those in the rural areas to determine the causes of poverty
- Identifying and recommending strategies and programmes that are effective to promote sustained reduction in the incidence of poverty and inequality in Sabah and Sarawak
- Capacity development activities in the form of training for the purpose of knowledge transfer to State Government officials
| Expected Outputs
- Report detailing the profiles of the poor and extreme poor in Sabah and Sarawak. This report will include a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the various dimensions of income and human poverty in Sabah and Sarawak
- Identification of gaps between the proposed strategies, programmes and projects against the poverty reduction targets set, which provided inputs into the Mid-term review of the Ninth Malaysia Plan, 2006-2010, and alsoinput during the development of the Tenth Malaysia Plan, 2011-2015.
- 50 trained State EPU officials in the use of monitoring and evaluation tools to improve the identification of poverty eradication strategies and programmes
| Partners
National Executing Agency: Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department
Implementing Partners: Distribution Section, Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department
UNDP Programme Officer
Mr. James George
Assistant Resident Representative (P) and Human Development Cluster
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Contact PersonMr. Kamarul Arifin Ujang, Director, Distribution Section, Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department
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