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This blog compliments teaching and learning for courses that I facilitate at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The contents serve to further 'connect' students to the 'real world' (quantity surveying, construction procurement and others). In trying to provide current information to students, I will be quoting or reproducing works of others and for this I am grateful. I will indicate clearly the source(s). I hope I will not offend anyone; and many will frequent this blog and benefit from its contents.

Thank you and wassalam.

Prof. Sr. Dr. Khairuddin Abdul Rashid

Sunday, January 31, 2010

GTP, NKRAs, KPIs and the construction sector

Salam and dear all, In April 2009 the present Government introduced the Government Transformation Programme or GTP. The objectives of the GTP include to make the government's delivery system more accountable and effective in the provision of public services.
  1. There are 6 National Key Result Areas (NKRAs) under the GTP i.e. reducing crime, fighting corruption, improving students outcomes, raising the living standards of low-income households, improving rural basic infrastructure and improving urban public transport.
  2. The outcomes of the NKRAs are to be measured based on pre-determined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  3. In the context of the construction sector, the GTP and specifically the NKRAs, has potential positive implications such as:
  4. Fighting corruption. The KPI for fighting corruption is that by 2010 Malaysia's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score, as compiled by Transparency International (TI), should move from 4.5 to 4.9. In 2009 Malaysia's position on the TI CPI was 56; 1995 = 23. In the context of the construction industry measures put in place to fight corruption includes to reduce leakages in government procurement via disclosure of government tenders on the e-government portal.
  5. Improving rural basic infrastructure. Several rural parts of Malaysia remained without modern basic infrastructures such as roads, electricity and treated water. The KPIs for rural infrastructure includes construction of some 7,000 km of new/upgraded roads by 2012, construction of 50,000 new/refurbished homes for the poor by 2012, access to treated water to some 360,000 households by 2012 and access to 24 hour electricity to some 140,000 households by 2012.
  6. Under the GTP, using the two NKRAs mentioned above as example, it is expected that the construction sector would become more efficient and with accountability and transparency, and that the allocation targeted for basic infrastructures benefits the construction sector and the economy as Malaysia strives to move out of the current economic downturn.
  7. For further details on the GTP Roadmap visit http://www.transformation.gov.my/
  8. Malaysia's TI website http://www.transparency.org.my/
Source: various newspapers and the above websites. Wassalam.
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