On-Site Assessment of the PBB Initiatives

Plant Back Better

The “Plant Back Better” (PBB) Initiative has been launching at Iloilo City in the Philippines in April. The on-site assessment has convened at the Tiu Cho Teg- Ana Ros Foundation Integrated School at Barangay Lanit on April 2nd -3rd. EPCC has organized experts from Chinese Taipei, and officers from the Iloilo city government, and local communities,…

EPCC attends the APEC TEL 58

EPCC attended the APEC TEL 58 which was held by Chinese Taipei from 1 October to 5 October. Dr. Wei Sen Li, the Executive Director of EPCC delivered the speech topic on "Regional challenges and opportunities on IoT for better disaster risk management and emergency preparedness" in the session of Earthquakes and Waterfloods Monitoring System with t…

2018 INFORMS International Conference in Taipei

Prof. Kenji Watanabe attended the 2018 INFORMS International Conference in Taipei City, and delivered a speech on the topic of "Emerging Needs for Resilience Enhancement of Maritime Transportation in Large-scale Disasters" that highlighted the need of resilience for Business Continuity Management.

Visit Red House for cultural heritage resilience

In the past disaster events, it verified the vulnerability of cultural heritage, and the cultural heritage was difficult to recover once it was damaged by disasters. Hence, the risk reduction of cultural heritage is more important.  EPCC is concerned about the issue of the risk reduction for cultural heritage, visiting the Red House and discussing…

Building Disaster Resistant Universities

The APRU-IRIDeS Workshop in Japan

EPCC attended the workshop on Building Disaster Resistant Universities held by Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) in Japan, and delivered the speech on the topic of Developing Campus Emergency Plan with the Concept of Business Continuity Management.

CBDM Workshop

The NGOs from the Philippines visit CBDM in Chinese Taipei

The delegates from 8 NGOs of the Philippines visit EPCC from 8 to 10 January. Besides learning about the disaster prevention and response system in Chinese Taipei, they also visit CEOC and 2 different community cases in Taichung and Taipei City.

Region and Local Best Practices of Post-Disaster Recovery

Building Sustainability and Resilience through Scientific Approaches

Enable communities to replicate in a sustainable and resilient manner through scientific support and reconstruction.  As well as through the establishment of public-private partnerships to strengthen regional and local capacity to respond to disasters. Facilitate cross-border communication of science and technology related to post-disaster recover…

Bilateral meeting between EPCC and the Philippines

The Bilateral meeting was held in Taipei, on 16 July, 2017.  Local Government Academy-Department of the Interior and Local Government (LGA-DILG), Manila Observatory, National Resilience Council, Bureau of Fire Protection NCR, and EPCC discussed the DRR strategies in the APEC region.

Apec Summit on Resilience and Capacity Building

Training Workshop on Promoting Business Connectivity

Synergized work on regional BCP/BCM - cross sectorial collaborations Promote Supply Chain Resilience in APEC region Reduce the impact of natural disasters on the industrial supply chain through regional BCP Managing risks and impacts of natural disasters to business in the Asia-Pacific region with Public-Private Partnership To offer reasible…