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Disaster
Disaster
NATURAL
DISASTERS
What?
What are natural disasters? Who?
The Slides
Natural disasters include all types of Who is even impacted?
severe weather, which has the potential
Diseases, Tsunamis, Floods,
All of us! even the wildlife- be it a cat,
to pose a threat to human health,
Hurricanes, Earthquakes
dog, rat, you, your teacher, someone's
The following infographics detail the
safety, property, critical infrastructure, mother, a businessman, we all are
disasters mentioned above
and homeland security affected by these terrific disasters
Why? Charities
Why should we care? How can we help?
We should care because there are those At the bottom of each infographic, there
around the world who don't have the are several charities dedicated to
privilege to live everyday without supporting the victims, and we strongly
worrying about shelter due to these encourage you to consider donating
natural disasters
Ending Pandemics is a non-profit organization that has a mission to work closely with governments to assemble
local cross-cutting teams to design demand-driven, sustainable solutions for pandemic preparedness against
large-scale diseases for those in need. (Ending Pandemics, n.d)
a i m s
Engage Directly Deploy a Expand Epidemic Collaborate with Measure Progress
with the Public One-Health Model Intelligence Neighboring Countries
Figure 1. Five Components of Systems Change to Expand Epidemic Intelligence. Adapted from "A Vision for Ending Pandemics" by Ending Pandemics,
Ending Pandemics Our Approach. Retrieved 10/16/22, from https://endingpandemics.org/community/our-approach/. Copyright 2022 by Ending Pandemics.
"In September 2022, UNHCR delivered over 10,000 metric tons of goods in less than four
STATISTICS weeks from our warehouses and suppliers in Pakistan and our regional and global
contingency stocks in Termez and Dubai, dispatching some 300 trucks and 23 airlifts."
UNCHR has mounted a huge airlift operation, carrying large amounts of supplies that go
ACTIVITIES towards the affected people in the worst affected cities including Larkana and Sukkur. These
include displaced citizens and those who lack essential supplies.
UNDRR(2000~) Mission
1. Number of countries with national
and local DRR strategies
2. International cooperation to
developing countries
Climate change adaptation
3. Availability and access to early
Increasing investments for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disasters Risk Reduction Building disaster-resilient cities, schools and hospitals
warning systems and DRR information
Decrease
Introduction
Generating robust evidence, innovation, and good practices on 5. Number of affected people
Headquarters
risk to inform decision-making processes. 6. Economic loss in relationto GDP
Geneva, Switzerland
Accelerating financing for DRR and de-risking investment 7. Damage to critical infrastructure
UNDRR is an organization formed by the UN to Regional offices Sub-regional offices
Scaling up communication and public advocacy for building and services disruption
'oversee the implementation of the Sendai Framework Africa Bonn
Americas Kobe
highest political traction and commitment to DRR
for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, supporting
Arab States Incheon Integrating the DRR agenda with the climate agenda 7 GLOBAL TARGETS
countries in its implementation, monitoring and
sharing what works in reducing existing risk'
Asia & Pacific
Europe & Central Asia
New York
Suva
(United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) TO ACHIEVE
Problem
Statement
TOO MUCH RUN-OFF RATES DRAINAGE
IMPACTS
Slow Response relative to natural disasters Biomagnification Causes Floods in the first place
occurring Local Farmer Crops negatively affected Pollution
Higher rates of Deaths and Injuries in crisis Erosion which leads to it becoming great costs Property Damage
times like floods for government to fix
SMALL-MEDIUM
their entire building being damaged and dangerous to be in. This is a big target
BUSINESSES
audience as SMEs contribute to "over 60% of the country's GDP" (Julie, 2021,
par. 36). Helping these SMEs ensures that the economy of Malaysia and local
economy isn't badly hit by floods. "With 70% percent of the workforce being
employed by them" (Julie, 2021, par. 13), this means that unemployment may
increase due to flooding - further justifying our plans to focus on SMEs.
Our second main concern would be Malaysians ages 15-64 as they are the general
working population that amounts to 69.7% (Mohd, 2020). They are the main
contributors to Malaysia's society and aiding them will bring positive effects to the
economy. They will also be our general target audience to provide relief efforts to
in partnership with other organisations like UNHCR.
CONSTRUCTION
COMPANIES
Target Audience
GOVERNMENT
Companies, "a dynamic collection of corporations that are leaders in their fields of
endeavour" (TAK Group of Companies, n.d.). According to Kris L (2022), TAK
group offers "environmental management" and also is best for "architecture with
creative and economic value".
Finally, we would like to have connections with the government so that we can
voice our opinions and serve as a medium for communication. More specifically,
we will try to contact the and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government as the
key Acts that they focus on align with our aims. These include: Town and Country
Planning, Housing, and Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing (Wikipedia,
2018).
Objectives
To counter the issue with bureaucracy and response rates, we need to give more power
to smaller organisations so that they can act on their own without needing the approval
of someone of a higher authority. This means that they do not need to wait for approval
and can act immediately.
To achieve this, we need to contact the government and its respective ministries
mentioned in the "Target Audience" slide so that we can pitch this idea.
Develop a system
that allows for
flexible reallocation
We also need to have better drainage systems in place to mitigate floods. More
specifically, drainage systems that can handle large volumes of water at a time and
cleaners to remove rubbish that block the drains, causing blockages.
Strategy
Collaborate with Architectures and
Construction Companies
01
In hopes of improving Malaysia's drainage systems to prevent flooding, we look to collaborate with Ken Yeang,
IJM Corporation Bernadette and DCA
TMF Strategy
02
Business association
Take Measures to Flood
PRESSURE
based on 2 associations
GROUPS
Scholarship for potential
FORM
Organised by Maybank, which is one of the
representing industries in Malaysia.(List of
largest companies in Malaysia)
It consists both companies and independent Successful examples
people who have a desire to change current
TO INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT’S
Plant trees
Otherthangivingmorepower...
Peopleholdingpositionsofpowerin
Malaysiashouldbeheldaccountablefor
Strategy
03
theiractions.
Develop a system
that allows for
Improving flexible reallocation
accountability in the
public sector
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