Hosted by Mayor Yew Tung Seang and City Secretary Addnan Mohd Razali, chaired by Dato’ Ir. Sabri bin Abdul Mulok, Deputy Director General (Specialist Sector) of DID, key DRRM stakeholders in Penang gathered to discuss the way forward to cope better with increasing and unprecedented natural hazards experienced in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”31470,31471″ show_title_and_caption=”off” zoom_icon_color=”#2ea3f2″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″ title_font_size=”11″ caption_font_size=”11″ custom_css_gallery_item=”margin:0 !important;||clear: none !important;||width: 50% !important;||padding: 10px;||padding-left: 65px;” border_style=”solid” saved_tabs=”all” _i=”1″ _address=”0.0.0.1″][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”2″ _address=”0.0.0.2″]<\/p>\n
Three presentations were given by UTM on \u201cIntegrated Flood Hazard Map for Water Related Disaster in Strengthening Urban Resilience in Georgetown, Penang\u201d by Ms. Haslinda Mohamad Hamran, DID officer and MDRM student, \u201cMainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into Development Planning & Investment\u201d by Dr. Khamarrul Azahari Razak, Senior Lecturer and DPPC member, UTM and \u201cHazard Risk Maps and Issues in Risk Communication: Experiences from Japan\u201d by Dr. Shohei Matsuura, JICA Expert. These presentations were followed by a presentation on \u201cFlood and Landslide Management in Penang\u201d by MBPP\u2019s technical officer.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”31473,31474,31475,31476,31477″ show_title_and_caption=”off” zoom_icon_color=”#2ea3f2″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″ title_font_size=”11″ caption_font_size=”11″ custom_css_gallery_item=”margin:0 !important;||clear: none !important;||width: 50% !important;||padding: 10px;||padding-left: 65px;” border_style=”solid” _i=”3″ _address=”0.0.0.3″][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”4″ _address=”0.0.0.4″]<\/p>\n
The coordination meeting was followed by site visits related to flood control such as MBPP CCTV Control Centre, Pinang River Information Center and inundation area in Pinang River and coastal flood control pond (S18). During the visit, some of the technical background information was provided by Dr. Faizah Che Ros, Senior Lecturer and DPPC fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”31478,31479,31480″ show_title_and_caption=”off” zoom_icon_color=”#2ea3f2″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″ title_font_size=”11″ caption_font_size=”11″ custom_css_gallery_item=”margin:0 !important;||clear: none !important;||width: 50% !important;||padding: 10px;||padding-left: 65px;” border_style=”solid” _i=”5″ _address=”0.0.0.5″][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”6″ _address=”0.0.0.6″]<\/p>\n
On the second day, a workshop that invited over 60 participants from the local governmental departments was held to implement the Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI). The CDRI exercise was facilitated by the MDRM students with intensions to get them exposed to working with various DRRM stakeholders. The results from CDRI will be compiled, analyzed and presented to the workshop participants to further discuss the way forward to further strengthen the coping mechanisms of the local government and communities towards future flood disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”31481,31482,31483,31484″ show_title_and_caption=”off” zoom_icon_color=”#2ea3f2″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″ title_font_size=”11″ caption_font_size=”11″ custom_css_gallery_item=”margin:0 !important;||clear: none !important;||width: 50% !important;||padding: 10px;||padding-left: 65px;” border_style=”solid” _i=”7″ _address=”0.0.0.7″][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During 14-15 November, series of coordination meeting, workshop and field visits related to Integrated Flood Hazard Map and Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) was organized by MJIIT\u2019s Disaster Program (DPPC), Penang Island City Council (MBPP) and Department of Irrigation & Drainage (DID). This program was implemented as part of MMJD1133 Control Measures and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":31477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-and-photo-gallery","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31493,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions\/31493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/dppc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}