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From left: Dato' P Gunasilan, Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP); Maria Chin Abdullah, Member of Parliament for Petaling Jaya; Dr Muhammad Abdullah Haji Zaidel, Economic Planning Unit Sarawak; and Norliza Hashim, URBANICE Malaysia

The institutional reforms to address the key principles of the 2030 Agenda such as leaving no one behind, achieving policy coherence (integrated agenda) and partnership models will be a major success factor in achieving the SDGs. This requires addressing challenging issues including federal-state relations, enhancing public participation in decision-making processes and reforming institutions related to underlying issues of governance such as on effectiveness, transparency, accountability and anti-corruption.

Discussion topics:

• Rebuilding Malaysia through reform of constitutional institutions
• Local government reforms through localising the SDGs
• Legal and rights-based reforms in Malaysia
• Reforming the financial markets for sustainability
• Institutional reforms - lessons from ASEAN
• Institutional reforms for policy coherence and whole society approach to achieve the SDGs
• Role of science and academia in supporting the SDGs
• The role of civil society organisations in institutional reforms
• The perspective of youths for the future of Malaysia