Women-Focused NGOs: Better Working Together

IN THE 1980S, women’s organisations were relatively scarce, but their number began to rise following Malaysia’s ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1995. Between 2020 and 2024, a total of 1,944 new registrations of women-related non-government organisations (NGOs) were recorded by the Malaysian Registrar of Society (ROS) to advocate for women’s rights, welfare and empowerment. However, numbers alone do not dictate whether they are addressing critical gaps effectively.