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Kota Kinabalu: An integrated cooperation between relevant departments and agencies can intensify efforts to improve the economic status of the people in rural areas, and hence, create a high-income society. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said the cooperation was vital to facilitate go-to-the-ground activities and identify those in need so that no one would be left out of the country's mainstream development.

"Sabah has always been looking for the best suitable methods to help the people in the rural areas to improve their living standard.

"Having an integrated cooperation between all the departments and the agencies to identify the economic field that has great potential for growth is among the best methods so far," he told reporters after attending Sabah Foundation Group's briefing on Innovative and Excellent Village programme, here, Thursday.

Meanwhile, Sabah Foundation Group Director, Tan Sri Datu Khalil Datu Jamalul, said the agency was among the first to take the initiatives to develop the people in the rural areas since 1996.

Among the efforts taken were the construction of people's houses, bridges and jetties, distribution of boats and fishing equipment to fishermen, implementation of gravity water system and construction of educational facilities for the comfort of pupils in rural areas.