Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

1. Asraf Hossain
Course: environmental science
& business Management

2. Our presentation topic :
MALAYSIA
THE MILLENNIUMDEVELOPMENT GOALS(MDG)

3. Malaysia boasts one of south-east Asia's most vibrant economies, the fruit of decades
of industrial growth and political stability.
Federation of Malaysia
Capital: Kuala Lumpur
Population 29.3 million (UN, 2012)
Area 329,847 sq km (127,355 sq miles)
Currency (Ringgit)
Country profile

4. MDG 1
Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
By the early years of the new millennium (2002), just 5.1 per cent
of households were poor. With this track record, Malaysia can be
classified as a success story in attacking absolute poverty, enabling
it to reach the MDG target of halving poverty well before 2015.
Poverty incidence by ethnicity, 1989 and
2009 (%)

5. Challenges
Sustaining economic growth
 Potential of ICT for poverty eradication
 Improving poverty data
 Improving poverty measures

6. MDG 2
Achieve Universal Primary Education
By 1990, universal primary education was almost achieved, when the
net enrolment ratio rose to 94 percent, less than 100 per cent
enrolment is partly attributable to an increase in the number of children
of primary school age attending private schools––the published figures
exclude private sector enrolments.
Participation rates at primary level, 2000–2009 (%)

7. Challenges
 Access to basic education
 Curriculum relevance
 Teachers ’development
 Role of the private sector

8. MDG 3
Promote gender equality and empower women
In general terms, the evolution of female employment has followed the
structural changes in the Malaysian economy. As the economy has
shifted from its reliance on agriculture to a greater emphasis on
industry and services. Since 1990, there has been a particularly rapid
increase in the share of female employment in the wholesale and retail
trade, hotels, and restaurants sector and the financial services sector.
Public service staff by position and
gender, 2000–2008 (%)

9.  challenges
Professional skill sandaccess to credit
Protection against violence
Leadership role for women

10. MDG 4
Reduce Child Mortality
Malaysia’s infant and child mortality rates have declined dramatically over the past three
and a half decades since 1970––even in that year, levels were much lower than those
currently prevailing in most of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The improvement of
child health and the reduction of child mortality have been national development goals
ever since the First Malaysia Plan, and the policy vision of good health has been
supported by a range of programmatic interventions

11. Sustaining reductionsin child mortality
Improving the quality of care
Improving child mortality statistics
Financial resources and health care costs
Challenges
Top five causes of under-five deaths in government hopitals,2004–2008 (%)

12. MDG 5
Improve Maternal health
Malaysia has experienced dramatic improvements in health in general and maternal and child health
in particular, throughout the post-Independence era. Well before the Safe Motherhood Initiative, the
reported maternal mortality ratio (MMR) had halved between 1957 and 1970, when it fell from
around 280 to 141 per 100,000 live births. By 1990 it was below 20 per 100,000 live births––a level
close to that of most advanced countries. Subsequently, the MMR has remained around this low
level, such that maternal deaths have become relatively rare events: less than two in every 10,000
deliveries.
Maternal Mortality Ratios, Malaysia(1950 – 2010)

13. Challenges
Target groups
Implications of delivery trends
Improving maternal health indicators

14. MDG 6
Combat HIV/AIDS,Malaria, and Other Diseases
Malaysia has achieved considerable success in controlling many infectious diseases
over time. A shift in disease pattern from a preponderance of communicable to non-
communicable diseases tends to occur as a nation progresses from a developing to
developed status. Markedly increased in relative proportion, rising from 24 per cent of
all medically certified and inspected deaths in 1970 to around 40 per cent in 2000.
HIV/AIDS, Malaysia, 1986 to 2010

15. Challenges
Increasing targets for treatment coverage
Making support to civil society more effective
Maintaining and scaling up harm-reduction
programes for injecting drug users
Procuring new malaria drugs
Implementing the strategies of the Malaria
Elimination Program.

16. MDG 7
Ensure Environmental sustainability
Total forested area, 1990–2010
Carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion, selected countries, 2000–
2006
(metric tones of CO2)

17. Challenges
Ensuring sustainable management of forests and
natural heritage
Generating funds for conservation
Strengthening awareness and participation
Reducing water and air pollution

18. MDG 8
Develop a global partnership for development
Malaysia is in transition from being a recipient of Official Development Assistance
(ODA) to becoming an international development partner Malaysia has an open
economy with the value of trade exceeding its national output in recent years. The
openness of its economy is reflected in trade and investment flows to the country and
its financial system.
FDI in ASEAN by Host Country (% share of total ASEAN)

19. Challenges
Developing a strategic approach to official
Development assistance
Global compacts
Monitoring and evaluation.