What works in Malaysia
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Evidence snapshot for Malaysia
Malaysia has made substantial progress in digital infrastructure and inclusive economic access. JENDELA Phase 1 achieved 96.92% 4G coverage and deployed fibre to 7.74 million premises, while active gig workers grew from 29,200 in 2016 to over 1 million by 2021 through eRezeki and GLOW programmes. Women's board representation among top listed companies rose from 14% to 30.6% between 2015 and 2023, and Malaysia's digital-accessibility training initiatives trained 23 cross-disability auditors. However, the evidence shows persistent challenges: fewer than 20% of gig workers are formally registered, and 50% of survey respondents struggled to access COVID-19 information during the pandemic.
Drawn from: Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance 2021 — 30% Women-Director Target for Listed Companies · JENDELA Phase 1 — Malaysia's National Digital Network Plan, with Published Targets vs Results · eRezeki & GLOW — Malaysia's Digital Economy Corporation Programme for B40 Gig-Economy Digital Inclusion · Accelerating Disability-Inclusive Digitalization — NCBM's Cross-Disability Digital-Accessibility Training in Malaysia · NADI – National Information Dissemination Centre · Malaysia National Fraud Portal — AI-powered real-time anti-scam network for financial intelligence · Penang Skills Development Centre (PSDC) — Industry-Academia Skills Tri-Partnership · Malaysia SiPKPM — AI-enhanced national early-warning system for school dropout prevention
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Scalability beyond pilot +13 pts 75 here · 62 average
Equity & inclusion +12 pts 62 here · 50 average
Evidence of learning impact +12 pts 38 here · 26 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +11 pts 17 here · 6 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -10 pts 33 here · 43 average
Evaluated outcomes -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -14 pts 40 here · 54 average
Effectiveness -33 pts 33 here · 66 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Malaysia. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance 2021 — 30% Women-Director Target for Listed Companies · 96
JENDELA Phase 1 — Malaysia's National Digital Network Plan, with Published Targets vs Results · 92
NADI – National Information Dissemination Centre · 88
Malaysia National Fraud Portal — AI-powered real-time anti-scam network for financial intelligence · 87
Penang Skills Development Centre (PSDC) — Industry-Academia Skills Tri-Partnership · 81
Malaysia SiPKPM — AI-enhanced national early-warning system for school dropout prevention · 80
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Malaysia concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
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- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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