This document discusses how to create impactful projects through practicing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides an overview of the SDGs and their objectives, as well as examples of successful SDG-aligned projects in Malaysia. The key messages are that the SDGs aim to stimulate sustainable action for people, the planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships, and that linking local projects to the global goals can emphasize their impact, connect them to more partners, and make projects more relevant worldwide.
How Impactful Life can be created through practicing SDGs? - 7th April 2020 Version
1. We Are the People
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Transforming Our World:
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
How Impactful Life can be created through practicing SDGs?
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- CSO –SDG Alliance – Members
- Penang Green Agenda – Working Group for Green Economy
- Penang 2030 – C2 Working Group on Youth, Women and
Seniors empowerment
- Penang Green Council - United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals – Governance and Institution – Working
Group
- 2019 JCI Malaysia National Global Goals Commission
Chairlady
- 2019 JCI Malaysia Global Goals Summit – Organising
Chairlady (partnering with UCSI Group, UCSI University SDG
Centers)
- 2020 JCI Malaysia SDG Coach in SDG Committee
- 2020 SDG Pioneers for Asia Pacific Project
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3. Objectives of the day
• Short briefing of Effective Project Framework
• Brief sharing of Sustainable Development Goals
• Sharing of case studies with outcome
formulation
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5. Needs Assessment
Define and decide challenges:
• Collect existing information
• Analyze the information
• Meet with officials
• Decide on priorities
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6. No information available?
Conduct your own survey:
• Online surveys
• Face-to-face interviews
• Meet with officials, leaders and
businesses
• Forums
• Town hall meetings
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9. Cause and Effect Analysis
The needs analysis will identify the
challenge.
We must detect the causes.
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10. When to Stop Asking “Why”
• Keep asking why during
the cause detection
process.
• Stop when action will
reduce the effect or
eliminate the cause.
• Stop when the You or your
organisation has reached
the limit of ability to act.
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11. Partners
• Engaging partners and
taking action
• Building strategic, mutually
beneficial alliances
• Achieve more by leveraging
the strength of partners and
the action of you and your
partners
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12. What is the Key Message?
We are
the first generation to end poverty, inequality,
injustice
here to save the planet from climate change
And
The Global Goals is for everyone & everywhere,
where no one is left behind
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13. Sustainable Development Goals
25th September 2015
Countries adopted a set of goals
to stimulate action for people, planet,
prosperity, peace and partnership
as part of a new sustainable
development plan
SDGs
17
Associated targets
169
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14. 17 Goals for Sustainable Development
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15. Sustainable Development Goals
For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part
Governments Private sector Civil society People like you
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16. #Youth4SDGs
Youth are both beneficiaries of the SDGs and crucial enablers of them.
They must serve as change makers, communicators, critical thinkers,
innovators, and leaders because the "youth bulge" implies they have a
large stake in the present and future of the world.
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27. Last Straw Johor by JCI South Key
• A series of project in a program to promote the
awareness of NO PLASTIC STRAW usage in the
state of Johor to ensure the ocean cleanness
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28. Description
• The LO work together
with the independent
statistic expert to
collect the data in
plastic straw usage in
Johor which cause
ocean pollution. They
work together with the
local state starting
from SouthKey to kick
start the project
Global Goals Results
• The program
started in 2019
and has gain
support from the
local authority for
promotion. The
impact of
approximate
500,000 public
awakened.
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30. Green the School by JCI Pearl
• Statistic from KKM April 2019, 15% of
Malaysia children suffering from obesity
which is top 1 in Asia Pacific and NCD
disease Malaysia being in the top 3
countries in ASEAN for highest
percentage of obesity. Pearl identify the
problem and found the root cause is
lacking of education and awareness.
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31. Description
• Pearl collaborate with the
right partner, Penang
Adventist Hospital, primary
schools and Penang Health
Exco YB Afiff to provide a
series of activities and
workshop to create
awareness since young and
kids will bring the message
back to their family
members. On top of that we
have 100 health ambassador
who sponsor for kids to
attend workshop and camp.
Global Goals Results
• The program
benefited more
than 3 schools
which resulted
to 1,000 pax
being
benefited
through the
progress in less
than 3 months
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32. Universiti Sains Malaysia initiate Malaysia’s first
marine monitoring on pollution
Keynote Address by Joyline Chai
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34. • Marine biologist Prof Datuk
Dr Aileen Tan and the team
has offered to help monitor
marine pollution in Penang.
Some of them including the
Fisheries Department and
Department of Environment.
This team has proposed a
long-term and intensive
monitoring for the studies
which will be done every
three month
Global Goals Results
• The state
government has
stated their
intention to form a
collaboration with
Universiti Sains
Malaysia’s Centre
for Marine and
Coastal Studies in
regard to
environmental
impact assessment
of state projects
Description
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37. Lions Centennial Services Excellence
A Collection of Lions Service Projects
http://lionscentennialservices.com
Never, Ever Give Up!
Biography – Malaysia’s 80s Badminton Player Foo Kok Keong
http://howtze.com/foo-kok-keong-never-ever-give-up/
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40. Why link your project to SDGs?
Emphasize your impact
Channel your impact as part of the world’s
impact
Become more relevant to the world
New spoken language between civil society
Connect to more partners
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41. How to link your project to SDGs?
Determine clear and concise
objectives for your project/ concept
from early phase of planning
Identify your target
audience and beneficiaries
Identify which SDGs is relevant to your
project objectives
( it could be more than one)
Chose the SDG/s most
relevant to your project
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43. Evaluation
You do not end the responsibility with the
project until the evaluation of the exercise has
been done.
Was the project a success? If so, why was it? Is
further action required to fulfill the need?
If it wasn’t a success, why not?
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44. What is your time
line to implement
this project?
46. You and I, for the betterment of Malaysia
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47. Thank you!
Let’s create Impact with Global Goals!
CONTACT US
Joyline Chai
thesdg2030@gmail.com
Facebook/Instagram/Youtube:
@theSDG2030
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