History

The National Population and Family Development Board was established through The Family Planning Act, No. 42, 1966 under the name National Family Planning Board. As a statutory body under the Prime Minister's Department. Its objective was to help reduce the population growth rate from 3% in 1966 to 2% by 1985, through the implementation of a National Family Planning Programme.

In 1984, the Act was revised to be in line with the widening scope of programmes and activities and NPFDB was renamed the National Population and Family Development Board (NPFDB)

In October 1990, the NPFDB was moved from the Prime Minister's Department to the Ministry of National Unity and Social Development.

IMPORTANT DATES

1966 -   Establishment of NPFDB through the Act of Parliament.

1984 -   Change of name.

1988 -   Revision of the Act

1990 -   Transfer of the Board from Prime Minister's Department to Ministry of National Unity               and Social  Development.

         -   Proclamation of the First National Family Day (11 November) by the Government and              NPFDB recognised as the secretariat.

1994 -  Proclamation of the U.N. International Year of The Family and NPFDB recognised as             the focal point.

         -  U.N. International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Cairo.              NPFDB recognised as focal point and for follow-up actions.

         -  Malaysia acceded to The Convention on the Rights of the Child and NPFDB appointed             as secretariat for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the National Plan of Action on             Children.

1995 -  U.N. World Summit on Social Development, Copenhagen. Malaysia's stand at ICPD on              certain issues carried through at this summit.

         -  U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing. Malaysia continued to maintain its              stand with regards to issues carried through from ICPD such as reproductive and sexual              health/rights, abortion, family planning, family and international migration.

1996 - Malaysia appointed as a vice-president of the International Board of Directors,            International Family Policy Forum, Montreal. Malaysia was represented by the                       Chairman of NPFDB.

1997 - Malaysia was accepted as a member of the U.N. Commission on Population and            Development for a period of 4 years. The Director-General of NPFDB was            approved by the Government to represent Malaysia.