KUCHING: The Sarawak government through the Sarawak Integrity and Ombudsman Unit (UNIONS) has recently been satisfied in principle and agreed to expand the Community Integrity Development (CIB) pilot programme of the Integrity Institute of Malaysia (IIM) statewide from next year.
IIM in a post on Facebook explained that it would involve 12 divisions in Sarawak and 26 local Aathorities (PBT) and for that purpose, IIM has been tasked with carrying out Training for Trainers (T4T) training for the PBT officers involved as well as helping to develop a monitoring programme and Inspectorate.
“In addition, more education and integrity awareness programmes for the community will be developed through the general CIB approach,” he said in a message.
He said that a final report presentation on the effectiveness of the implementation of the IIM CIB Programme was conducted by Datuk Wan Suraya KPE IIM to the Deputy Minister of Integrity and Ombudsman Datuk Dr Juanda Jaya on Dec 2 (Friday).
Also present were the director of UNIONS Adana Jed as well as officers in the four PBTs involved, namely Kuching North City Hall (DBKU), Sibu Municipal Council (MPS), Limbang District Council (MDL) and Matu and Daro District Council (MDMD).
The presentation of this pilot programme report focuses on the success of the joint collaboration between IIM and UNIONS which also involves service providers (contractors and public officials) and service recipients (residents).
Among other things, this programme looks at the extent (delivery of PBT services), the speed of service providers in taking action to resolve issues or complaints (fix rate) raised within the period set in the service licensing agreement (SLA).
In addition, the Public Integrity and Trust Perception Study has also been developed by IIM to evaluate and measure the integrity indicators of service providers as a whole of 145 respondents (39 contractors and 106 local authority officers) in terms of transparency, accountability, involvement, service delivery and good governance before and after the CIB programme was implemented in the four PBTs involved.
The IIM CIB pilot programme was implemented in Sarawak from July to Nov 2022.
