A/HRC/44/40/Add.3 Floors. The country’s national human rights institution, SUHAKAM, should also intensify its currently insufficient efforts to monitor and protect economic and social rights. Comments from the Government of Malaysia: • The Malaysian Implementation and Coordination Unit, Prime Minister’s Department (ICU JPM) has been tasked as the main secretariat of MySPC and supported by four (4) working committees established under MySPC are as below: (i) Labour Market Intervention led by Ministry of Human Resources; (ii) Social Assistance led by Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development; (iii) Social Insurance led by Ministry of Finance; (iv) Data Management led by Department of Statistics Malaysia. Social Support Paragraph 33 Malaysia’s social protection system is fragmented, inadequate, underfunded, and poorly targeted. The Government acknowledges that there are at least 110 different programs spread across more than 20 ministries and agencies. Most importantly, as UNICEF has noted, the system has “virtually no redistributive or poverty reduction impact.” This is because of inadequate investment, expenditure failing to keep pace with GDP growth, and schemes that provide only small irregular benefits. There is a lack of employee safety nets, and income support for disadvantaged persons—such as the unemployed, single parents, persons with disabilities, and older persons—remains ad hoc, insufficiently targeted, and incapable of ensuring basic living standards. Despite these shortcomings, many officials denied there was anything amiss in the social support system. Comments from the Government of Malaysia: • Malaysia is leveraging and empowering the existing Malaysia Social Protection Council (MySPC) as the platform to discuss and coordinate the policy and direction of Malaysia social protection. The council will also facilitate the implementation of social protection programmes across agencies and will ensure that the national social protection action plan is consistently adequate and sustainable to ensure that no Malaysians are left behind. • The Department of Social Welfare (DSW) under the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development assists individuals or families with lower income to ease their financial burden temporarily or until they improve their financial situation to become financially independent. As of August 2019 the total of Peoples With Disabilities (PWD) who have been registered and have had identity card in Kelantan were 39,733 including 10,313 from Kota Bharu. The purpose of registration is to collect data and statistics for the planning of services, rehabilitation programmes, prevention, training, education and early intervention. • The identity card for PWD is issued in order to make communication with the relevant authorities easier. Community Based Rehabilitation Center (CBR Center) is a community development strategy for persons with disabilities to obtain rehabilitation within their family and community whereby they are given the equal opportunity for rehabilitation and interaction with society. Kelantan have 45 CBR Centres including 7 (seven) in Kota Bharu with RM 5,622,886 total operational allocation in year 2019. Government provided RM 988,563 operational allocation for CBR Centres in Kota Bharu. • Government did provide some extent of basic needs to indigenous community in term of education, welfare, healthcare and facilities. However, most of indigenous community still resist to change their mind set and way of life due to having strong belief on maintaining their ancient traditions. Subsequently, this resistance leads to difficulty for them to utilize opportunity provided by the government toward improving their lifestyle and having equal rights as other urban community. 14