Core Programmes

1. The Royal Professor Ungku Aziz Public Lecture

This lecture series aim to recognize the contribution of Royal Professor Ungku Aziz in the field of poverty and development research in Malaysia. This lecture series was inaugurated in 2014, with the aim of hosting national figures who have made unparalleled contributions to the nation’s development while providing a platform for exchanging ideas, debates and discourse in the area of poverty and development studies, both locally and internationally.

2. Ungku Aziz Development Forum

This Ungku Aziz Development Forum is designed to be a platform for an open discussion between the academic community, development practitioners, policy makers, NGOs and observers. The aim of this forum is to encourage relevant parties to re-examine and re-think complex development issues in order to learn from past experiences and to inform future efforts to ensure the achievements of the broader development goals of a nation. The themes of the forum would be identified based on the cross-cutting topics that falls within the main Research Pillars of the Centre and input from our programmes and research findings.

3. National Stakeholder Roundtable

The aim of this event reflects the purpose and commitment of all our core programmes towards an inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional approach to poverty and development studies. The main aim is to review and assess the current progress in the field of poverty and development studies for the purpose of stocktaking to identify the follow-up themes, plan of action and timeline, research areas/gaps, policy inputs to government as well as to identify collaborative work with partner institutions.

4. Coffee Talk Seminar Series

The purpose of this seminar is to provide a platform for academics, development practitioners, policy makers, NGOs and stakeholders to share their work and ideas on development issues that are relevant at the national, regional and global levels.

5. Public Outreach Programme

Public Outreach Programme is a non-welfare programme. It reflects two (2) main components of research at Ungku Aziz Centre. These components are academic publications and public engagement programmes. The aim is to create a database on the poor, vulnerable and other target groups. It also aim to strengthen the relationship between the academic, community, the general public, policy makers and the international community. Hence, fulfilling the role of Ungku Aziz Centre as the channel to increase accessibility to information and facilitate the dissemination of this information amongst various stakeholders.

6. Rethinking Poverty and Development

The objective of this event is to encourage researchers, policy makers and stakeholders among others, to find new understanding and policy solutions to development problems that have confronted developing nations for decades.