Minister's Handbook 2019 : How the Finnish Government works

This Minister's Handbook serves as a comprehensive information source on the organisation and functioning of the Finnish Government. Primarily intended to support the work of members of the Government and their aides and advisers, this publication also provides useful insight to anyone interested in the workings of the Finnish Government. The Minister's Handbook was first published in 2015, and the present volume is an updated and enhanced edition of that first publication. A working group was set up by the Prime Minister's Office on 11 October 2018 to prepare an updated version of the Handbook. It was chaired by Permanent State Under-Secretary Timo Lankinen from the Prime Minister's Office. The other members representing the Prime Minister's Office were Senior Ministerial Adviser Heidi Kaila, Senior Ministerial Adviser Arno Liukko, Chief Senior Specialist Ulla Rosenström and Senior Ministerial Adviser Maaret Suomi. The working group also included the following members: Counsellor Kirsti Pohjankukka from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Senior Specialist Anu Mutanen from the Ministry of Justice, Senior Ministerial Adviser Kirsti Vallinheimo from the Ministry of Finance, and Referendary Counsellor Maija Salo, Head of Department for Government Affairs at the Office of the Chancellor of Justice. Senior Ministerial Adviser Sanna Helopuro from the Prime Minister's Office served as secretary of the working group. The Minister's Handbook contains key information on the organisation and work of the Government. It describes the role of ministers as members of the Government, how they contribute to the preparation of matters, how they participate in decision-making and in parliamentary work, and what their ministerial responsibilities are. The Handbook gives a detailed description of the main preparatory processes for advancing the Government's policies and programmes and describes the ways in which the Government and Parliament work together. The role of ministers in European Union affairs and in Finland's other international relations is also explained in detail. In addition, the Handbook sets out information on the benefits, support services and security arrangements for ministers and on the work of State Secretaries and Special Advisers to ministers

Rahman Dahlan's appointment as Minister in PM's Dept hailed

KUALA LUMPUR: Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak said yesterday Sabah stands to gain from the appointment of Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in the Cabinet reshuffle on Monday

Laos legislative drafting programme

Draft documents, proposals, notes, and other various papers related to the Seidman's efforts to develop a legislative drafting programme in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) between 1994 and 1997. This project was developed with support from the Lao National Program, UNDP and World Bank to help strengthen the country's legal framework

Fair fracking? Ethics and environmental justice in United Kingdom shale gas policy and planning

The exploitation of shale gas resources is a significant issue of environmental justice. Uneven distributions of risks and social impacts to local site communities must be balanced against the economic benefits to gas users and developers; and unequal decision-making powers must be negotiated between local and central government, communities and fracking site developers. These distributive and procedural elements are addressed in relation to UK policy, planning, regulatory and industry development. I adopt an explicitly normative framework of policy evaluation; addressing a research gap on the ethics of shale gas by operationalising Shrader-Frechette’s Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality (PPFPE). I conclude that UK fracking policy reveals inherent contradictions of environmental justice in relation to the Conservative Government’s localist and planning reform agendas. Early fracking policy protected communities from harm in the wake of seismic risk events, but these were quickly replaced with pro-industry economic stimulation and planning legislation that curtailed community empowerment in fracking decision-making, increased environmental risks to communities, transferred powers from local to central government, and created the conditions of distributive injustices in the management of community benefit provisions. I argue that only by ‘re-localising’ the scale of fracking governance can political equality be ensured and the distributive and procedural environmental injustices be ameliorated

A study on the factors contribute to the population growth in Malaysia at Social Services Section, Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister's Department / Syukriyani Shudim

The Economic Planning Unit (EPU) is an important sector in the Malaysian economy in the monitoring of national economic performance and social development. The population growth is one of the social developments in Malaysia. In this study, the researcher was using secondary data. The effectiveness and accuracy of the fertility rate, the mortality rate and the life expectancy variables will be examined. The model that used to examine is econometric modelling. The selection of the best model based on the results that fulfill the characteristic of no serial correlation, high goodness of fit, less p-value, and no existence of multicollinearity. According to those characteristic, variable of the fertility rate and the life expectancy should be dropped. Log transformation should be performed towards variable of the mortality rate in order to increase their normality characteristic. The final model that consider as the best model is a model with log transformation towards mortality rate and lag of dependent variable, the population growth with one degre

information strategies for Malaysia: geographical, organisational, political and technological implications for development

Malaysia has undergone radical social, economic and political development over the last four decades. The information systems put in place to provide informational support for managing development projects have also changed from manual systems in the 1960s and 1970s, to computerised systems based on batch and on-line processing and networking in the 1980s, and multimedia in the 1990s. Two large-scale information system programmes were studied in detail. The National Project Monitoring System (SETIA) and the National Land Information System (NALIS) involved co-ordination of individualised information systems and sharing of information by agencies at Federal, State (including District) and local authorities. Collection of information and the subsequent analysis of that information was guided by two theoretical frameworks: first the organisational perspectives framed by Web models which help in understanding the dynamics of computing in development; and second the subjective epistemological stance framed by structuration theory which helps to frame an understanding of the complexities of social relations surrounding information systems development. This research demonstrates how organisational behaviour, and a socio-political culture influenced by economic interests and personal ambition, can complicate large scale information systems development. Reluctance to share information; differences of appreciation and awareness and varying levels of understanding of the technology in use; inadequate and incompatible information; inadequate working strategies and standards; and imbalanced infrastructural support are among the major reasons for lack of success. However, in the implementation of information systems, problems related to human factors are not unique to Malaysia; rather they are common even among 'advanced' countries. But developing countries like Malaysia are often more sensitive to changes in economic and political environments. The concluding chapter of this thesis places the information strategy issues in the context of Malaysian and Southeast Asian political and economic events of 1998

Comments on the Fixed Assets Investment Bill (draft)

Comments on a draft legislation regarding investment of fixed assets

Pelaksanaan Dasar Penerapan Nilai-Nilai Murni di Tiga Agensi Induk Jabatan Perdana Menteri

Tujuan utama kajian ialah untuk mengetahui serta mengenalpasti sejauhmana Pelaksanaan Dasar Penerapan Nilai-nilai Murni dalam pentadbiran di jabatan-jabatan kerajaan. Kajian ini dijalankan di tiga agensi induk jabatan Perdana Menteri. Objektif khusus kajian ialah untuk mengetahui kefahaman pegawai-pegawai kerajaan mengenai dasar tersebut, kepentingan nilai-nilai murni dalam pentadbiran kerajaan, mengetahui langkah-langkah pelaksanaan yang telah diambil oleh jabatan kerajaan terhadap dasar tersebut, mengetahui amalan dasar tersebut dan mengenalpasti masalah-masalah serta halangan utamanya. Data dalam kajian ini dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan borang soal-selidik yang diisi sendiri oleh 46 orang responden yang bertugas di tiga agensi induk Jabatan Perdana Menteri iaitu di Unit Penyelarasan Pelaksanaan (UPP), Unit Perancang Ekonomi (UPE) dan Unit Pemodenan Tadbiran Malaysia (UPTM)