Amirah Majid – Sustainable Development Solutions Network

2020 FABLE Report

Amirah Majid — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:00:00 +0000

This second global report of the FABLE Consortium presents pathways towards sustainable land-use and food systems for 20 countries.

The Malaysian chapter on the 2020 Report of the FABLE Consortium Pathways to Sustainable Land-Use and Food Systems outlines how sustainable food and land-use systems can contribute to raising climate ambition, aligning climate mitigation and biodiversity protection policies, and achieving other sustainable development priorities in Malaysia.

You may download the full report or country chapters here

SDSN Networks in Action 2020 Report

Amirah Majid — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:00:00 +0000

The Networks in Action report features the wide array of innovative solutions and initiatives being led by the SDSN’s national, regional, and thematic networks. In the 2020 edition, we highlight the flagship initiatives and global collaboration. This report also includes a special introduction on how the SDSN networks are working together to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and achieve the SDGs.

Download the full report here.

SDSN Networks in Action Report 2019

Amirah Majid — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:00:00 +0000

The Networks in Action report features the wide array of innovative solutions and initiatives being led by the SDSN’s national, regional, and thematic networks. In the 2019 edition, we highlight how we are deepening our partnerships with variou stakeholders.

To learn about SDSN Malaysia’s solutions and initiatives for 2019, you may download the report here.

Rising to the Challenge: Malaysia’s contribution to the SDGs

Amirah Majid — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 03:15:10 +0000

by SDSN Malaysia

First published on UN SDSN website on 30 August 2017

In order to bring attention to sustainable development and share from the experience of the many initiatives taking place in Malaysia, SDSN Malaysia has collated local projects and their best practices into a book. The aim is to provide an engaging overview of the various initiatives available to achieve the SDGs.

In 2014, the network published a first edition of Rising to the Challenge, which featured 50 sustainable development initiatives. This year, SDSN Malaysia publishes its second edition in which the best practices are arranged according to the pillars of the country’s current development plan, the Eleventh Malaysia Plan (2016-2020), and the SDGs. These initiatives came from government agencies, academia, private sector, NGOs as well as the community. They are selected based on their impact, scalability, and transferability, as well as their contribution and relevance to the Eleventh Malaysia Plan and the 17 goals. Edited with the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), the Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Malaysia), the 2017 edition looks into the mainstreaming, institutionalizing, and scaling-up of these initiatives.

Malaysia’s journey in sustainable development started in the 1970s when the New Economic Policy was introduced to eradicate poverty and address societal imbalances. Subsequent national development plans followed and the current five-year plan is themed ‘Anchoring growth on people’ — formulated with the welfare of the people as the central objective of their development efforts. This reflects the overarching aim of the SDGs, ensuring that “no one is left behind.”

During the 2017 Voluntary National Review of the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, Minister Rahman Dahlan reported that Malaysia has taken concrete steps in implementing the SDGs, namely through the formulation of a National SDG Roadmap to guide the implementation and a collaborative mapping exercise to align SDGs with the 11th Malaysia Plan initiatives. The 2nd edition of Rising to the Challenge hopes to contribute to these efforts.