2. District Action Group for Women Empowerment was
established on 22 February 2022 during Dato' Bindi
Rajasegaran's governorship.
However, it all started with a women fellowship
group Voice of Influence (VOI) under the District
Committee for Women Empowerment. The maiden
initiative under this Committee was the Health Card
for Women, a collaboration with KPJ Damansara
Specialist.
Overview
3. The first major endeavor under District Action
Group for Women Empowerment was in
establishing the Women Empowerment
Funds, with funds raised totaling to
RM102,500 and supported by Yayasan Kelab-
Kelab Rotary Malaysia on 27 March 2022.
To date (as at June 2023) 20 Rotary Clubs,
corporations and individuals have contributed
a total of RM112,000 to WEF since the launch.
Overview (con't)
4. Milestones
14 FEBRUARY
22 FEBRUARY
27 MARCH
2022
Launching Women
Empowerment Funds with
its first RM100k.
4 MARCH
DAG-WOW FB group was
set up and in 4 days
garnered 500 members
2022
13 MAY
20 MAY
2022
YKKRM supported the
WEF with 100k as start-
up
District Governor then,
Dato' Bindi Rajasegaran
approved the
establishment of District
Action Group for Women
Empowerment (DAG-
WOW)
2022
2023
Women Empowerment
Symposium + IVy Award
BEST - Basic
Entrepreneurial Skills
Training hosted by RC
Central Damansara
2023
The journey continues in changing
the lives of children and women.....
The fund-raising that gathered steam since
22 February 2022 is as fiery as ever...
5. ENGAGE THE
COMMUNITY
ENCOURAGE
PARTNERSHIP
Objectives
Expand Rotary’s outreach
to change lives by
supporting more projects
benefitting girls and
women especially abused
women, single mothers
and needy community.
EXPAND
OUTREACH
Engage Rotarians, Rotary
Clubs, public, etc. to
support our community in
realising our mission of
empowering girls and
women by contributing
to WEF/YKKRM.
Encourage partnership
with corporations to carry
out big CSR projects with
Rotary Clubs nationwide
by contributing to
WEF/YKKRM.
Harness connection with
Ministry of Women, Family
& Community Devt, NGOs,
etc. with Rotary Clubs to
carry out projects
empowering girls and
women.
HARNESS
CONNECTIONS
6. Our Whys
Men have dominated over women in most areas:
educational aspects, social and workforce and others
32.7 million in 2020,
increased from 32.5
million in 2019, with
an annual growth
rate of 0.4 percent.
In 2020, the male
population exceeded
women from 16.8
million (15.9 million
for women)
Males outnumbered
females in both the young
in the range of 0 to 14 years
old and working age
15years old to 64 years old.
Women outnumbered men
in the old-age group
between 65 year old and up
with 1.2 million
Statistics from Department of Statistic Malaysia (DOSM)
A Quality of Women Empowerment in Malaysia: Concept Paper
7. The median monthly salaries for men have constantly been higher than women since 2010.
This was resulted from an unfairness access of job opportunities between men and women.
9. In Malaysia
Number of non-Muslim women aged 20-
24 years old who were married before
18 years
Seats held by women in senate (%)
Seats held by women as Cabinet
Ministers (%)
Seats held by Parliament of Malaysia
women women as Deputy Ministers (%)
Seats held by Parliament of Malaysia
women in House of Reps (%)
Women in managerial positions (%)
2017 2663 2018 2496 2019 2392
Available Indicators Year Value Year Value Year Value
2017 17.0 2018 17.0 2019 18.0
2017 8.6 2018 17.9 2019 17.9
2017 15.2 2018 14.8 2019 15.4
2017 22.1 2018 24.7 2019 23.3
2017 10.9 2018 14.4 2019 14.9
SDGs Performance Indicators (Source: Malaysia Voluntary National Review 2021)
10. Where is Malaysia in this?
Which answers the
question of DAG-WOW's
presence and roles
11. Our Strength
EXPERIENCE
WORLDWIDE EXPERTISE
SERVICE-FORCE
District 3300 alone
have >2,000
Rotarians. Out of this,
almost 30% are
women.
Rotary International has 1.4 million
members.
D
istrict 3300 has 88
Rotary Clubs in
States from Perlis to
negeri Sembilan.
Internationally, there are 35,000
Rotary clubs in more than 220
countries.
Members are mainly business
leaders, educators, professionals,
and community leaders.
We have varied
expertise and skills
to add value to the
communities.
From Intervention
Training for Autism,
to Jehai Education
and Literacy
Rotary Clubs have been organising
various Women Empowerment
programs for years benefitting
thousands of girls and women.
13. Our Role(s)
SUPPORT CLUBS TO RUN
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
PROGRAMMES
First and foremost is to:
technical
expertise, skills
and experience in
specific areas
with NGOs,
corporates and
associations for
funding or
sponsorship
grant applications,
and community
assessments
needs, capability
and capacity
among Rotary
Clubs in Malaysia
SHARE CONNECT
FACILITATE MATCH
clubs
come
first
14. GOT MONEY, NO PROJECT
share project ideas
connect you with
Clubs or NGOs who
are looking for
partners
Scenario Planning
GOT PROJECT, NO MONEY GOT YKKRM, NO PROJECT NO MONEY, NO PROJECT
connect/match
you with Clubs
who need funding
share project
ideas
share project
ideas
connect you with
Clubs or NGOs
who are looking
for partners
share funding
platforms
share funding
platforms
available
connect you with
potential
sponsors
facilitate process
