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Strategy Key Activities Prevention i. Understand the risk: • The cause of flood. • Flood Mapping/ Risk Mapping (River catchment/ shorelines, identification of flood plains, identify all assets). • Flood Modelling. • Risk Mapping (Identify vulnerable sites such as Home/ Business and critical infrastructure). ii. Communicate the risk. iii. Manage the risk: • Structural measures and their impact. • Mitigation, retention and non-structural measures. • Land use, zoning and risk assessment. • Integrated river basin approach. • Flood strategy. Protection i. Capacity: • Flood barriers. • Impounding Reservoirs. • Improved food relief channels. ii. Operation: • Maintain assets so they are effective. iii. Resilience and sustainable buildings and infrastructure. Preparedness i. Forecast systems. ii. Flood warning Services: • Monitor and forecast. • Provide an effective flood warning service to public and responders (Establish flood warning codes, determine appropriate flood warning triggers, organise flood warning distribution, use of multimedia to disseminate flood warnings). iii. Public awareness campaigns, public participation and insurance (Resilience community). Emergency Response Response to an event, issues warning, operating assets, rescue people, aid distribution. Recovery and Lesson Learns i. Support peoples. ii. Check flood response management systems are “fit for purpose”. iii. Prevention of pollution. iv. Repairing and waste management. v. Review what happened and lesson identified. vi. Update data and republish the flood map. Table 5: Summary of strategy for resilience towards flood protection and relief in Malaysia 51