The government recognises the role of mothers as the main pillar of the family and the community as a whole. Mothers play a pivotal role, not only in educating and raising children, but they also often hold the responsibility of managing family finances.

The empowerNCER programme was designed to enhance the skills of the locals to enable them to compete and seize the economic opportunities created in NCER.

Malaysia’s graduate unemployment rate in 2018 fell slightly to 3.9% from 4% in 2017, with a total of 162,000 unemployed graduates. NCER alone recorded 14,300 unemployed graduates, with Perak and Perlis recording the highest percentage rate.