Project Purpose

This project is to promote local disaster management capabilities. The definition of "local" refers to cities, counties, and villages at the current stage. To achieve this goal, we develop two websites, which include step by step methods, Information visualization outcomes of post-disaster survey data, and assessment tools for disaster risk reduction. 

Key Achievements

1.“Easy to Do”website

The main purpose of this website is to provide city governments, villages, and social welfare institutions teaching materials for disaster risk reduction. Main issues included on the website for city governments are disaster risk management, emergency information management, critical resources logistics and distribution, evacuation, shelters, and housing reconstruction. This website suggests city governments how to do a task step by step. It provides many links to resources and examples in these steps, as well as a capability assessment tool. It also presents itself as a platform of experience exchanges for city governments.
 
This website also teaches villages and social welfare institutions how to prepare for typhoon, flood, debris flow and earthquake disasters. It also provides many useful toolkits, documents and examples for reference, e.g., manuals about how to do disaster management risk map at the village level, a disaster risk evaluation system for social welfare, and step by step about how to write a disaster management plan for either a village or a social welfare institution.

2.“DRRstat”website (stat for Disaster Risk Reduction)

The main purpose of this website is to provide local governments, researchers, and the public DRR related data. Besides visualized social survey results after several important disasters in Taiwan, DRRstat also provides two assessment tools to help disaster risk reduction managers easily assesse social vulnerability of different administrative areas and estimate number of people of each administrative area who would evacuate or need shelters, as well as size of shelter space and volume of different types of supplies these people need when they are in shelters.