Achieving Sustainable Value Planning For Malaysian Public Projects
Sustainability is the central development issue in the modern economy. Through sustainable development, quality of life can be improved or maintained over time. Since Malaysia is targeting to become a high-income nation by the year 2020, financial investment in public projects should be planned co...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/38240/1/Achieving_Sustainable_Value_Planning_For_Malaysian_Public_Projects.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/38240/ https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20166600011 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Sustainability is the central development issue in the modern economy. Through sustainable development,
quality of life can be improved or maintained over time. Since Malaysia is targeting to become a high-income nation
by the year 2020, financial investment in public projects should be planned comprehensively so that it will generate
immediate and long-term benefits to the country and the people. Within the currently tight financial environment,
achieving value for money in public spending is seen as one of the enablers to maintain the right momentum of
economic growth. Previous studies have established the importance of integrating sustainability consideration into
Value Planning protocol in order to achieve value for money, underpinned by the sustainable development agenda.
Despite the establishment of the framework for the integration, the opportunity of such integration within the
Malaysian Value Planning protocol for public projects remains unclear. The present state of sustainability
consideration within the Value Planning practice should be first evaluated, so that potential interventions to enhance
the integration can be introduced. Responding to the gap, this exploratory study was conducted. The data was
collected by means of document analysis, interviews and observations; subsequently analysed using the Template
Analysis technique. Based on the current practice of Value Planning in Malaysia, ten interventions are proposed to
transform the present practice into Sustainable Value Planning. Sustainable Value Planning is seen as a
comprehensive concept in achieving value for money in public spending underpinned by the overarching concept of
sustainability |
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