| Government institutions |
Main functions |
| Ministry of Finance |
- Formulating, planning and implementing fiscal budgetary policies to promote sustainable development
- administering and collecting taxes
- supervising financial institutes
|
| Ministry of Primary Industries |
- Maximizing the contribution of the commodity sector to GDP, employment, technology development
- increasing the efficiency, productivity and competitiveness of the commodity sector
- providing the infrastructure and supporting primary and secondary industries
|
| Ministry of Agriculture |
- Increasing income of farmers and fisherman
- increasing food production for domestic consumption and for export
- monitoring, evaluating and coordinating the implementation of projects under Agricultural Development Project.
|
| Ministry of Land and Cooperative Development |
- Ensuring the management and development of land
- Surveying and mapping services for optimal utilization of land and the fair distribution of national wealth
- Promoting and facilitating exports by strengthening bilateral, multilateral and regional cooperation
- Providing information on technologies for processing and marketing raw materials
|
| Ministry of International Trade and Industry |
- Planning and implementing international trade and industrial policies
- Promoting local and foreign investment and coordinating and facilitating industrial development
- Increasing national productivity through management training programmes, development of entrepreneurs and management consultant services
|
| Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment |
- Planning and implementing overall scientific and technological policies
- Studying and assessing the development of projects subject to the EIA
- Evaluating project site suitability and effectiveness of pollution control systems
- Providing environmental input to agencies at theFederal and State level t
- Implementing enforcement on pollution sources
- Developing national networks for water, air and noise monitoring systems
- Reviewing the existing regulations and proposing new ones
|
(Source: Synthesis paper on institutional arrangements and mechanisms in East and Southeast Asia, unpublished, p.18)
