‘Private sector needs to be more supportive of NBOS’
PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian private sector is encouraged to get on board the National Blue Ocean Strategy ( NBOS) and work in partnership with the public sector to ensure government services can be rapidly delivered at an even lower cost and high impact.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun hoped that there would be changes in private sector’s involvement in implementing NBOS, which currently received lukewarm response.
“We do hope there will be some changes. It may take time for the private sector to be as enthusiastic as the public sector to accept the National Blue Ocean Strategy.
“But anyway, I heard a lot of other member countries are also trying their best to apply NBOS programmes in some projects in their country and try as much as possible to learn from us,” he told Bernama on the sidelines of the 6th Biennial Commonwealth Public Service Ministers Forum, here yesterday.
The biennial forum was held at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre ( PICC) in conjunction with the 11th Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) Biennial Conference, which will kick off today until Aug 20.
Meanwhile on the Commonwealth biennial forum, Entulu said Malaysia was on the right track to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), a new global people-centred development agenda covering the period of 2015 to 2030.
Rooted in the principle and objective that no one is left behind, he said there are 17 goals enshrined under the SDGs which cover all spheres of sustainable development including social, economic and ecological spheres, ranging from efforts to combat poverty to protection of terrestrial ecosystems.
He said Malaysia had put in place appropriate platforms for SDG implementation, notably in the five-year Malaysia Plan that mirrors the SDG’s 17 goals and would serve as a comprehensive guiding policy for sustainable development in the country. — Bernama