Working During A Pandemic – Part 1

The experience of working during a pandemic affects us differently. For office workers, companies have no other choice but to embrace the reality (and efficiency!) of working from home. For some, their jobs are at stake or on hold because physical attendance is required, and the latter is what happened to some of Hasanah’s partners. […]

CVA 101: Understanding Cash and Voucher Assistance initiatives in Malaysia

‘In providing aid, our giving must provide strength and bring ease of mind to calm hearts. Don’t be materially rich but poor at heart.’ Master Cheng Yen, Founder of Tzu Chi Foundation Why consider CVA or any other form of cash aid? In 2021, it is projected that 235 million people will require humanitarian assistance […]

Household Well-being: Linking Income, Work and Health

On 8th December 2020, KRI and Yayasan Hasanah jointly organised a webinar to discuss the findings of three reports under The State of Households 2020 (SOH2020) series, revisiting the progress of Malaysian households over the last decades. This latest series takes a long-term view of Malaysia’s development, coinciding with the Vision 2020 period. The webinar featured […]

The importance and challenges in establishing and managing Malaysia’s Marine Protected Areas

A Marine Protected Area (MPA) are coastal and sea zones specially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biodiversity, natural and associated cultural resources covering all features and values of a park area including soil, mineral, living things as well as all historic and pre-historic, sites, trails, structures, and inscriptions, managed through legal or other […]

Strategies and Approaches to Increase Livelihood Opportunities for B40 Communities

The 16th ILMU Hasanah session in collaboration with MATCH Hub was successfully conducted on 7th August 2020 with four panellists; Christopher Choong Weng Wai the Deputy Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute, Samantha Ong, the General Manager of People System Consultancy (PSC),  Kon Onn Sein the Managing Director for the Foundation for Community Studies and Development […]

How to create and communicate impactful stories using 5C’s

Creating impactful stories and advocating to the public is not an overnight process. Knowing the challenges in this and to share some ideas, Yayasan Hasanah organised the 16th ILMU on Digital Media Strategy 101 for Civil Society Organisation (CSOs). The session, which was attended by more than 200 participants, was conducted by Ian Yee, an investigative […]