The team is concerned with examining (a) mechanisms, (b) models and (c) capacities, both institutional and human, required for systemic and systematic production and usage of locally-produced evidence in the inclusive policy design and planning processes in Malaysia. Emphasis is placed on evidence fit for the purposes of the SDGs and their inclusive policy pillar – i.e., evidence that is increasingly equity-weighted, integrated, multi-dimensional, and policy-sensitive. The main deliverable of such work is an up-to-date and comparative analysis the aforementioned practices in Malaysia.

The work will be ultimately geared towards identification of practices and mechanisms which could be extrapolated and replicated, after an appropriate level of customization and contextualization, at a larger scale and in the different sub-national and sectoral contexts.