Executive Summary - Malaysia Open Budget Index 2024 - Public Availability Scores

Executive Summary Malaysia Open Budget Index 2024 The MyOBI Assessment seeks to analyse the The overall results indicate that some state transparency of the state budget process governments still have not done enough to ensure by verifying the availability of key budget adequate disclosure of budget information to documents, the timeliness of the publication of the public and that there is an insu. [...] This index budget process, and the ability of the public to helps identify several key reform actions that can meaningfully participate in the budget process. [...] in the number of sessions held by the state legislative assembly and the timeliness of budget • The Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure submissions. [...] However, every state was able to disseminate • Mechanisms for the public and civil society information on budget proceedings via social to comment and provide feedback during media and provide live streams of the budget budget formulation and implementation speech, allowing a degree of transparency and accessibility to the general public. [...] • Public forums and meetings to disseminate budget information and facilitate two-way While this section is currently unscored, we look dialogue with the public forward to continued improvements here, to allow the public to not just be more informed of • Forming select committees with the power what is happening in their state governments, but to summon state civil servants and convene to also mea.