United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

UNFPA: the United Nations Population Fund, began providing assistance to Malaysia in 1973 for its national family planning programme in line with Malaysia’s population policy stipulated under the First Malaysia Plan. From 1973 through 1996, UNFPA supported programmes, projects for reproductive health (RH) Family Planning (FP); training; research; capacity building activities, as well as other population and development related initiatives.

In view of the commendable economic and social performance of Malaysia, its rapid strides towards attaining self reliance and its success with population strategies, since 1997, UNFPA’s assistance has been directed towards selected areas of intervention, particularly in the area of reproductive health as prescribed in the Programme of Action (POA) adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994. The recent programme/project areas include creating awareness on RH at the community setting; addressing adolescent reproductive health effectively; and integration of RH into primary health care.