KUCHING: The Action and Implementation Plan (AIP) for the Post Covid-19 Development Strategy (PCDS) 2030 seeks to ensure systematic implementation, reduce risk of failure and ensure alignment with the desired outcomes and provide a strategic road map towards 2030.
In saying this, State Secretary Datuk Amar Jaul Samion said the AIP was a detailed plan outlining specific actions needed to achieve PCDS 2030 outcomes and aspirations.
“In executing AIP, it is extremely crucial for ministries and its agencies to be mindful of the need to change the way we work.
“For this, I would require that ministries and agencies undertake seven key actions,” he said at the launch of the AIP at Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) on Monday (Feb 7).
Action One, he said was to actively review, refine or propose new policies for the sectors such as mining policy.
“Action Two, is to constantly study or review the existing ordinance or propose new ordinance to cater for the new policies or to circumvent hurdles in our implementation process.
“Action Three, is to improve, change or totally revamp current procedures to be relevant to the current situation such as improvement on the procedures for ease of doing business,” he said.
Action Four, he said was to actively engage the civil society and initiate deliberate actions to help the community particularly the poor and B40 to improve their level of income and meaningfully involve them in the ministries’ or agencies’ programmes.
“The Fifth Action is to develop clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and targets as well as definite actions together with the timelines for each activity to track progress and achievements of individual officers or sectors in the department,” he said.
The Sixth Action, Jaul said, was to promote active collaboration across the ministries, departments, and agencies as well as close collaboration with the federal agencies to ensure the state’s interests are taken into consideration.
“The days of the silo mentality are over. State interests should now override departmental interests,” he pointed out.
Last but not least, he said, was to have active engagements with the private sector to develop workable business models for economic projects such as agropark, petrochemical hub and digital transformation.
“The AIP is a very useful tool that will map out our strategies into steps or phases towards achieving our immediate, medium, and long-term goals. It will serve as a guide or reference to keep us on track and not to deviate from our aspirations.
“All the six economic sectors and seven enablers in PCDS 2030 have unique AIP initiatives. PCDS 2030 has also outlined a special AIP for poverty alleviation as we aspire to ensure that by 2030, our poor households in Sarawak will be alleviated from poverty.
“This will be done through deliberate intervention by nurturing good values and attitude, creation of the right ecosystem for human capital development and encouraging active participation in income generating activities,” he said.
As the state is now entering the second year of PCDS 2030 implementation, he said that, with AIP in place, the ministries, departments and agencies are now more equipped with the knowledge on the requirements to implement the initiatives of PCDS 2030.
“All ministries, departments and agencies are now required to form a dedicated team to manage their respective AIPs to ensure their initiatives are implemented according to scope, resources and timeline and support the pillars of PCDS 2030.
“At the state level, we need a strong monitoring mechanism to track the implementation status of the various progammes,” he said.
He added that the civil service is the implementer of PCDS 2030 initiatives, and the role is to ensure the successful implementation of these initiatives and to facilitate private investment to grow the economy.
“The civil service also needs to ensure these initiatives benefit the people, with emphasis on strong community participation in the various socio-economic sectors,” said Jaul.
