102. In 2009, BIMP-EAGA Leaders endorsed a major shift towards "projectisation", i.e.,
expediting the implementation of priority projects to fulfil its strategic visions and goals.
Subsequent processing of the endorsed projects (under a new three-year rolling pipeline of
priority infrastructure projects) revealed that infrastructure requirements of BIMP-EAGA are
usually not taken up by the relevant national agencies and often excluded from the list of
national infrastructure development priorities (and therefore receive no budgetary allocation).
To address this institutional gap, BIMP-EAGA started discussions in 2009 to establish a
mechanism to rationalise the identification, prioritisation of infrastructure projects in the short
term and to monitor their implementation in the longer term.