Eleventh Malaysia Plan 2016-2020: Anchoring Growth On People.

The Eleventh Malaysia Plan 2016-2020 Anchoring Growth On People is a strategic national plan prepared in the framework of Vision 2020 with the objective of transforming Malaysia into a fully developed country by the year 2020. The Eleventh Plan, based on the theme “anchoring growth on people”, has six strategic thrusts and six game changers that will transform ideas into reality and address the goals set out in Vision 2020. Strategic thrust No. 4 is focused on pursuing green growth for sustainability and resilience. Green growth refers to growth that is resource-efficient, clean, and resilient.
To make environment more sustainable, efforts will focus on strengthening governance to drive transformation through policy, regulatory and institutional frameworks to encourage industries to adopt green technologies as well as accelerating innovation and development of indigenous green technology; enhancing awareness to create shared responsibility through communication, education and public awareness programmes engaging all levels of society; and establishing sustainable financing mechanisms through the expansion of existing mechanisms such as Polluter Pays Principle and Payment for Ecosystem Services and funding of new economic instruments of green growth such as s green tax, carbon tax, and REDD+.
Further, efforts will focus on conserving terrestrial and marine areas as well as endangered plant and wildlife species, managing natural resources and strengthening biosafety; and, enhancing alternative livelihood for indigenous and local communities by involving them in biodiversity conservation and empowering them for alternative economic opportunities. Activities will include reforestation, forest enrichment, reduction of illegal deforestation and forest degradation, and similar enforcement efforts concerning the quality of marine parks and water. Further, biodiversity conservation efforts will be increased by protecting, rehabilitating, breeding and restocking selected endangered plant and wildlife species.
To enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems government will work to adopt the sustainable consumption and production concept. This concept will be implemented through creating green markets, increasing share of renewables in energy mix, enhancing demand side management (DSM), promoting low carbon mobility, and managing waste holistically. To this end, measures to be undertaken include implementing Government green procurement, promoting the development of green buildings and greening of industries to spur green growth, and encouraging local industries, especially small and medium enterprises, to develop green products and services.
To reduce poverty, strategy's #6 thrust: 'Re-engineering economic growth for greater prosperity through the modernization of agriculture' envisions activities such as improving productivity and income of farmers, fishermen and smallholders, promoting training and youth agro- entrepreneurship development, strengthening institutional support and extension services, building capacity of agricultural cooperatives and associations along the supply chain, improving market access and logistics support, scaling up access to agricultural financing, and intensifying performance-based incentive and certification programmes.
Strengthening resilience against climate change and natural disasters is another objective of the tenth strategy. Related activities will include: strengthening disaster risk management by establishing DRM policy and institutional framework, improving disaster detection and response capacity, incorporating DRM into development plans and creating community awareness; improving flood mitigation by generating new investments from flood mitigation projects, enhancing long-term planning and strengthening flood forecasting and warning systems; and enhancing climate change adaptation by developing a national adaptation plan, and strengthening resilience of infrastructure, natural buffers including water and agriculture sector as well as creating awareness on health impact.