About NADIM

Persatuan Pengurusan Bencana Kebangsaan (National Disaster Management Association) NADIM MALAYSIA was formed during the Big Flood of East Coast Malaysia in 2014/2015 with the support of Malaysian National Security Council (NSC), stakeholders in the needs to collaborate with local and the international NGOs, with the vision to deliver relief assistance for the “homeless flood victims” who needed emergency shelters. With its urgent response over 900 homeless families were provided with temporary shelters with the assistance of the international NGO ShelterBox.Org.

NADIM has successfully provided 1000 units of tents as temporary shelters to the homeless beneficiaries and also provide the experts consultancy in designing and building the temporary transit camp for 200 homeless families based on United Nation standard requirement located at Bandar Baru Gua Musang in January 2015 as requested by the National Security Council (NSC) Prime Minister Department.

NADIM MALAYSIA as a national level organization is registered as a Non-Government Organization (NGO) with the Malaysian National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA) and was appointed as NGO-NADMA Volunteer Council Member in 2018 by the Minister in Prime Minister’s Department and a lead NGO for Shelter Cluster.

Mr. Roslan Ab. Ghani, the founder and the President of NADIM MALAYSIA is deeply passionate in contributing to the national disaster preparedness, prevention and Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Program (CBDRR), as he believes continuous learning and training is the main key towards a disaster resilient and sustainable community.

With his 40 years of various field disaster relief experience in pre and post disaster community work with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society and was seconded to the United Nation High Commission for Refugees Program (UNHCR) in 1979 managing the day-to-day activities of the Vietnamese refugees transit camps when more then 200,000 of Vietnamese Boat People arrived in Malaysia. They were then safely migrated and resettled in various third countries in the world such as United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan etc.

NADIM Malaysia is now focusing in module development and organizing (Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) training program as a capacity building and learning hub with Disaster Preparedness & Prevention Center DPPC, UTM-MJIIT, in collaboration with government agencies, industry, academia, private sectors and NGOs towards the formation of a more resilient society.