Mapping out more initiatives

KUALA LUMPUR: The second phase of the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) aims to achieve a 65% rate in public safety perception index by 2015.

The GTP Roadmap 2.0 acknowledges that public perception on safety remains a concern despite the successes of the initial initiatives.

Following that, the GTP 2.0 is also aiming for an 85% rate in public satisfaction of police services and a 5% annual reduction for reported index crime and incidence of house breakins respectively.

The Roadmap makes it clear that house break-ins are particularly traumatising for victims as they violate the privacy and a sense of security of the home.

Eighteen per cent of property crime were made up of house breakins last year.

In essence, the people can expect more significant changes that go beyond temporary relief to their burdens.

The Government will be focusing on the economic empowerment of individuals and communities.

The Roadmap explains at length the lab process, where teams working in high-pressure environment, had spent 300 hours in six weeks to deliver their outputs compared with traditional committees that could take several months or years to produce solutions.

GTP 2.0 will be implemented over the period of three years until 2015 in an effort to achieve a high-income developed nation status by 2020.

The second phase will build on the achievements of the first phase to the next level by refining the initiatives and strengthening delivery methods.

The first phase produced significant results by prioritising the people’s most pressing needs, while GTP 2.0 will see some of this work continued. It will also see further refinement and enhancement at the macro-level.

The seven National Key Results Areas (NKRAs) under the GTP are addressing the rising cost of living, reducing crime, fighting corruption, assuring quality education, raising living standards of low-income households, improving rural development and improving urban public transport.

Under the Assuring Quality Education NKRA, a professional development course for English Language Teachers will be conducted to ensure that there is one proficient English teacher in every classroom across Malaysia.

With regards to the Raising Living Standards of Low-Income Households (LIH) NKRA, it said 47,000 households needed to be moved out of poverty to reduce the poverty incidence rate from 3.8% to 2% by 2015.

GTP 2.0 aims to transform the lives of some 100,000 low-income Malaysians with initiatives including financial literacy education for 70,000 1AZAM participants and getting successful 1AZAM participants to serve as mentors.