Presentation on Malaysia and the Open Government Partnership

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International Tools: How Relevant are the OGP and EITI for Malaysia?

Workshop on OGP and EITI

13 October 2014


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Key messages from this presentation

The government has initiated various reformprogrammes (Government TransformationProgramme)

But many people in civil society remainunconvinced

We need to institutionalise public participation

OGP and EITI are such measures to do so

This will enhance public trust in governmentinitiatives and improve service delivery

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Presentation Structure

Overview of Malaysia

Participatory policy-making

Open information

OGP in a Malaysian contextHow it could benefit usMalaysias eligibility

EITI in a Malaysian context

Moving forward: Institutionalising goodgovernance practices

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Ad hoc public participation inpolicy making

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Civil society in Malaysia

Heavily divided along partisan lines

Many pseudo-CSOs

Relationship with government is generally

either subservient or antagonisticIt is usually the critical friends who arevaluable and whose views should be takenseriously

Civil society seeks to participate in policy-making but face constraints like the OfficialSecrets Act which restricts information

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How Malaysia fared in the

Open Budget Index 2012

The Open Budget Index ranksparticipating countries according tohow government provides timelyaccess to comprehensive informationin key budget documents.

Malaysia scores 39/100 and is in the

category of Minimal information.

Malaysia does not publish:

Pre-Budget Statement

Citizens Budget

Mid-Year Review (of the Budget)

We are weak on Public Engagement

and moderate on Legislative Strength


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Overview of MalaysiaParticipatory policy-makingOpen information

OGP in a Malaysian contextHow it could benefit us

Malaysias eligibility



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2013 Resource Governance Index(Revenue Watch Institute)

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Institutional and Legal Settings: 39Reporting Practices: 45

Safeguard and Quality Control: 39Enabling Environment: 60


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Malaysias Increasing Reliance onO&G, hence governance is key

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Petronas reports directly to the Prime Minister, as outlinedin the Petroleum Development Act 1974


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Petroleum producing states have higher incidence ofpoverty than non-oil producing states

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a global coalition of governments,companies and civil society working

together to improve openness andaccountable management of revenues

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Currently 46 compliant and candidatecountries, recording US$1,332 billion totalgovernment revenue around the world.


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EITI Requirements Summarised

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How EITI would benefit us?

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Institutionalising Good Governance

The government has initiated various reformprogramme through Pemandus GTP (FightingCorruption, Reducing Crime, Improving PublicTransport etc)

But many people in civil society remain unconvinced We need to institutionalise public participation

This will enhance public trust in government initiatives

The OGP and EITI provide good, internationallyaccepted platforms that can help improve public trustin the delivery system.

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Thank Youwww.ideas.org.my

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