Implementation poverty eradication program by six government agencies in Sabah / Asfarina Fathin Redzuan and Nurfadhilah Md Rawi

Poverty is a natural phenomenon is most developing countries. Government has put so much effort in order to eradicate poverty. Government has give a responsibility to the government agencies which is act as the program implementers in ensuring the program is achieve the objective and reach the target group. Ever since independence in 1957, Malaysia has successfully transformed itself from a poor country into a middle-income nation. The Malaysian economy has seen a periodic growth despite challenging external factors. It can also definitely claim its success of combat against poverty. Unfortunately, there still some group of people are still remains a vulnerable group of people in the county experiencing poverty for some geographical and societal reasons. This has given a challenge and problem faced by the implementers towards implementing poverty eradication program and policy in Malaysia especially in Sabah. This concept paper has several objectives which is to determine the most factor that affects poverty eradication program implementation especially in Sabah and recommendations for a sustainable poverty reduction and improvement of implementation in poverty eradication program. A set of 120 questionnaire were distributed in six different agencies which is Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, Ministry of Community Development and Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Rural Development, Department of Social welfare, Implementation Coordination Unit (ICU) and Sabah Economic Development Corporation (SEDCO).