Chronology of Millenium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals

Millennium Declaration.

- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was set up.
- The MDGs encapsulate eight globally agreed goals in the areas of poverty alleviation, education, gender equality and empowerment of women, child and maternal health, environmental sustainability, reducing HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases, and building a global partnership for development.

- The development MDGs only involved EPU.
- Malaysia published MDGR 2005.

- DOSM started to develop MDGs.
- Received fund from UN to build a platform for MDGs indicators.
- MalaysiaInfo as well as appointed as focal point in coordinating data collection.
- There were 11 agencies involved in providing data on MDGs.

Malaysia published MDGR 2010.

- The process of reporting achievements of MDGs 2015.
- DOSM requested for technical assistance and Technical Working Group (TWG).

- The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+20),
- Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- From 20 to 22 June 2012.
- Resulted Rio+20 Outcome Document which is an agreement by Member States to launch a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals that can be used to pursue focused and coherent action on sustainable development.
- Open Working Group (OWG) was established.
- Malaysia was represented by EPU and NRE.

- Series of meeting OWG was conducted
- Malaysia was represented by Permanent Representative in New York
- 17 Goals and 169 Targets were developed from this OWG

- Inter-Governmental meetings.
- Objective of meetings:

- Malaysia was represented by Task Team SDGs from EPU
- Series of meetings were as follows:

Malaysia has expressed commitment along with 193 other countries to support and implement the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 2015)

Establishing a multi-stakeholder and participatory governance structure spearheaded by the National SDG Council, chaired by Prime Minister

National SDG Steering Committee Meeting No. 1/2016

Member of High Level Group (HLG) on Sustainable Development Goals (HLG-SDGs) representative of Malaysia and the Asia Pacific region

Established DOSM SDG Task Force

National SDG Steering Committee Meeting No. 1/2019

Member of Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals Indicators (WGSDGI) for Asean Stats

Launching of The Initial Assessment of The Sustainable Development Goals Indicators for Malaysia 2018, Officiated by Chief Statistician Malaysia

Member of Inter Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals (IAEG-SDG) representative of Malaysia and the Asia Pacific region

Launching of The National Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Progress Monitoring System, Officiated by Secretary General, Economic Planning Unit

National SDG Steering Committee Meeting No. 1/2019

National SDG Summit, Officiated by Prime Minister of Malaysia

Launching of Sustainable Development Goals Indicators, Malaysia, 2018 report, Officiated by Chief Statistician Malaysia

Volunteered as member of Working Group on Geospatial Information (WGGI) for IAEG SDG

Volunteered as member of metadata sub-group for IAEG-SDG

Launching of Sustainable Development Goals Indicators, Malaysia, 2019, Officiated by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Economy)

SDG Webinar 2020 (National and International sessions)

National SDG Steering Committee Meeting

SDG Implementation Coordination Meeting

Launching of Sustainable Development Goals Indicators, Malaysia, 2020 report.