Conceptual Framework of Public Participation in Ensuring Quality of Life of the Urban Poor in Malaysia

This paper aims to encourage initiatives designed to improve the quality of life and encourage citizens to play their role in the urban environment. Using the SWOT analysis, policies to fight urban poverty must draw on the considerable social capital that neighbourhood represent. According to these findings, these organisations make significant contributions at four levels, which should underpin strategies in an urban environment. (1) Initiative (2) Participation (3) Democracy and (4) Social management are the four elements. The implication of this is improvement of the quality of life and promotion of the exercise of the citizenship. As a result, poverty will be eradicated with the help of public participation in ensuring quality of life of the urban poor.