Policy Consultation in Malaysia Public Service

The aim of this article is to discuss the process of public policymaking and how the policy consultation helps to elaborate the processes involved in enhancing cooperation among government agencies. Existing literature indicates that there has never been any research that studies in detail on the consultative process of the process of policymaking in the country’s public service. The only available guidance is in the National Policy on the Development and Implementation of Regulations to improve the decision-making process for policy implementation. Therefore, a further reference has been done to a qualitative study on the policymaking process of the proposed National Halal Policy. The study indicates that an effective consultative approach must be able to act as either a vehicle of communication or stakeholder management in the policy process. The framework of negotiation-based policy consultative informs clearly on what types of consultative process practiced by the country and how does it operate in promoting wider participation in the policy process.

Overview of Nigeria’s 2nd Universal Periodic Review National Report

With the creation of the Human Rights Council Universal Period Review, its Working Group established in accordance with Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1 of 18th June, 2007 held its fourth session from 2nd to 13th of February, 2009 to review the human rights record of countries including Nigeria.2 In preparation for the review, the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria had constituted a broad-based UPR National Consultative Committee tasked with the responsibility of compiling its first national report on the steps taken as well as the challenges faced in the fulfilment of its treaty obligations. The Committee which comprised representatives from diverse stakeholders working for the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria subsequently convened the National Consultative Forum (NCF) and after series of meetings, produced the country’s first UPR national report, through a consultative process that climaxed in a national validation conference. During the deliberation of the forum, every human rights issue was openly discussed and participants were able to express their views freely. The outcome of the NCF is faithfully reflected in the national report.

Intellectual Disability, Employment and Aging: Intervention Measures

Workers living with intellectual disability suffer in a special way from the onset of premature aging. Hence the need to generate alternatives and policies for the development of a new model for active aging and the care of workers with intellectual disability. Our objective in this study is, therefore, to devise intervention measures that can minimize the effects of aging on the lives and the activities of these workers. Employing the Delphi technique, we assembled and consulted a panel of 8 experts with relevant expertise in the fields of intellectual disability; aging; employment and dependency. The panel included employers, families and workers with disability. Each expert reached a prior consensus over every response and contribution after having consulted four other experts with similar backgrounds, a consultative process in which a total of 40 experts participated. A total of 68 measures were proposed which correspond to three lines of action or key contexts: Firms and Organizations that employ People with Intellectual Disability; People with Intellectual Disability, and Family setting. In all, 10 recommendations with a focus on both firms and organizations were advanced to implement the proposed measures. The conclusion was that interventions are needed from the time at which the first symptoms of deterioration are detected, which should not necessarily lead to immediate loss of employment, as well as individualized and coordinated interventions among all relevant stakeholders, including the families.

First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun and Others v. Government of Yukon

422Treaties — Nature of treaty — Interpretation — Treaty rights — Agreement between Canada, First Nations and Government of Yukon establishing consultative process for development of land use plans in Yukon portion of the Peel Watershed — Umbrella Final Agreement between Government of Canada, Council for Yukon Indians and Government of Yukon, 1993 — Whether subject to international law principles for treaty interpretation — Whether Yukon Government’s approval of proposed land use plan contravening consultative process set out in agreement — Modern treaties — Role of courts in resolving disputes concerning modern treaty implementationTerritory — Agreement recognizing traditional territories of First Nations in Yukon portion of the Peel Watershed, and their right to participate in management of public resources in that area — The law of Canada

SUPERVISION ON BY-LAW OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN INDONESIA: LESSON FROM REFRESHED CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONSHIP IN NEW ZEALAND

A by-law as a product of local government is valuable as a legal instrument in implementing the duty to regulate and to administer local affairs. Contemporary, the regulation regarding supervision on by-law points a dynamic and controversial respond. The indication has appeared since the competence of the central government to nullify by-law is repealed through the Constitutional Court Verdict. Government reaction on this Verdict indicates a disharmony, due to some ventures to control local government forwards to tight, for which several other legal instruments are issued. This study aims to find a developed notion of supervision on a by-law to enhance the purpose of devolution. In doing so, a lesson learned from New Zealand will be taken into account following the gap found in the legal position of Indonesia. The research finding shows that a trend of regulation on supervision in New Zealand reflects a transitional relationship between central government from hierarchical to a partnership, through empowerment. In contrast, the legal position in Indonesia addresses to a discouragement or distrust mindset. For this reason, the what can fulfil the gap as a lesson learned from New Zealand is by emerging a unique consultative process to the public both in by-law making, repealing, amending, and or reviewing.Keywords: comparative; local government; supervisionAbstrakAnggaran rumah tangga sebagai produk pemerintah daerah berharga sebagai instrumen hukum dalam melaksanakan tugas untuk mengatur dan mengelola urusan lokal. Kontemporer, peraturan tentang pengawasan oleh-hukum menunjukkan respons yang dinamis dan kontroversial. Indikasi ini muncul sejak kompetensi pemerintah pusat untuk membatalkan anggaran rumah tangga dicabut melalui Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi. Reaksi pemerintah atas Putusan ini menunjukkan ketidakharmonisan, karena beberapa usaha untuk mengen-dalikan pemerintah daerah ke depan dengan ketat, yang mana beberapa instrumen hukum lainnya dikeluarkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan gagasan yang dikembangkan tentang pengawasan terhadap anggaran rumah tangga untuk meningkatkan tujuan devolusi. Dengan melakukan hal tersebut, pelajaran yang dipetik dari Selandia Baru akan diperhitungkan menyusul kesenjangan yang ditemukan dalam posisi hukum Indonesia. Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tren regulasi tentang pengawasan di Selandia Baru mencerminkan hubungan transisi antara pemerintah pusat dari hirarki ke kemitraan, melalui pemberdayaan. Sebaliknya, posisi hukum di Indonesia mengarah pada keputusasaan atau pola pikir ketidakpercayaan. Untuk alasan ini, apa yang dapat memenuhi kesenjangan sebagai pelajaran yang dipetik dari Selandia Baru adalah dengan memunculkan proses konsultatif yang unik kepada publik baik dalam pembuatan by-law, pencabutan, amandemen, dan atau peninjauan.Kata kunci: komparatif; pemerintah lokal; pengawasan

Lost Identity: Transgender Persons Inside Indian Prisons

This report sheds light on challenges faced by Transgender persons in Indian prisons. The report analyses the international and legal frameworks in the country which provide the foundation for policy formulations with regard to confinement of LGBT+ persons, with particular reference to the Transgender community. This report also documents the responses received to right to information requests filed to prison headquarters across the country, which in addition to providing the number of Transgender prisoners in Indian prisons between 1st May 2018 to 30th April 2019, also provides relevant information on compliance within prisons with existing legal frameworks relevant to protecting the rights of Transgender persons in prisons, especially in terms of recognition of a third gender, allocation of wards, search procedures, efforts towards capacity building of prison administrators etc. The finalisation of this report has involved an intense consultative process with individuals and experts, including representatives from the community, community-based organisations as well as researcher and academicians working on this issue. This report aims to enhance the understanding of these issues among stakeholders such as prison administrators, judicial officers, lawyers, legal service providers as well as other non-state actors. It is aimed at better informed policy making, and ensuring that decisions made with respect to LGBTI+ persons in prisons recognize and are sensitive of their rights and special needs.

Substantiation of Psychological Assistance in Changing the Attitude of Adolescents to Significant Others

The article describes the experience of organizing psychological assistance in changing the attitude of adolescents to significant others. In the process of socio-psychological experimentation, the for-mation of relationships with significant others is considered as the leading activity of a teenager. The author, on the basis of the conducted empirical research, highlighted the stages of the consultative process aimed at initiating support for the adolescent’s awareness of his own system of constructs. The result of this process is to reconstruct the adolescent’s attitude to a significant other through the adolescent’s clarification of the similarities and differences in psychological characteristics between him and the other person.

The Contentious Politics of Resettlement Programs: Evidence from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Labelling resettlement programs as voluntary suggests that they cause little contention and are devoid of coercion. But is this representation accurate? Drawing on unpublished government documents and media reports, we provide a detailed case study of the Community Relocation Policy (CRP) of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) from 2009 to the present. We show that CRP has been fraught with contention due to the nature of the voting process and the slow and uncertain nature of the community-oriented consultative process. This article highlights the ways in which coercion has emerged from within the very communities considering resettlement, in addition to any coercion that might come from government officials.