Review of the WHO-Malaysia Country Cooperation Strategy 2009-2013 with a View to Extending it to 2015

In Malaysia, the key national planning process leads to the development of five-year national development plans, with the current 10th Malaysia Plan (10th MP) covering 2011–2015 and the 11th MP set to span 2016–2020.

As a result, the recent WHO–Malaysia Country Cooperation Strategy 2009–2013 was not aligned with the time frame of Malaysia’s primary development planning cycle. This is problematic as the country’s five-year planning cycle includes extensive consultations and processes that identify key national and sectoral priorities for the coming period. If the next CCS had been developed to cover 2014–2018, it would have continued to be out of step with this important national planning process.

This review, therefore, was undertaken with a view to considering the suitability of extending the framework described in the 2009–2013 CCS to also cover 2014–2015. This would then enable the next full CCS to cover 2016–2020, which would synchronize with the 11th MP.