2016 ANNUAL REVIEW Ministry of Science and Technology

Ministry of Science and Technology 20 disaster management mission tasks; provides all counties and cities with a disaster prevention capability self-assessment function intended to find disaster prevention vulnerabilities; and offers relevant assistance resources and recommendations for the purpose of enhancing the overall disaster resilience of cities and counties, and mitigating the impact and losses of natural disasters. The chief functions of the Easy to Do website include: (1) an explanation of its disaster management mission as a whole: In accordance with the four disaster management stages of disaster mitigation, readiness, response, and recovery, disaster managers will select among the six major tasks of disaster risk management, emergency information management, critical resource logistics and distribution, evacuation, arrangement of shelters for affected residents, and housing reconstruction as required by the situation; this section also provides explanations of each mission's definition, processes, legal basis, and importance, and presents county/city/foreign cases and strategies to assist city and county disaster management personnel to quickly understand the content of their missions. (2) Use of relevant resources: The website provides an introduction to the resources needed to implement various missions, including NCDR's R&D systems and platforms, other government systems and platforms, and the laws, regulations, handbooks, and standard operating procedures established by various agencies and organizations. (3) Assessment of county and city disaster prevention capabilities: To ensure that all county and city disaster management personnel are familiar with management strategies, procedural steps, and methods for their disaster management tasks, the website provides self-assessment items, and also offers recommendations and relevant resources connected to assessment results. (4) Case studies: The website gathers innovative disaster management actions by cities and counties, The National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) has continued to promote and implement disaster prevention R&D, integrate, realize, and apply R&D results, and use disaster prevention and mitigation technologies to assist disaster prevention work. NCDR also performs the missions of promoting international cooperation and interchange in disaster prevention S&T, assisting universities and research organizations to participate in disaster prevention R&D and applications, and other services connected with disaster prevention and relief. Apart from routinely planning disaster prevention and disaster mitigation technology R&D and applying R&D results, NCDR further serves as a disaster response operation support coordinator during the disaster response period. After a major natural disaster has occurred, NCDR assists with scientific investigation and makes recommendations concerning countermeasures. Responding to natural disasters in 2016, NCDR personnel staffed the central disaster response center, and assisted the intelligence and assessment team in studying the disaster. In 2016, NCDR supported various response tasks at the central disaster response center six times, and participation in these tasks involved over 404 persons-hours and 505 persons. NCDR further assisted the central disaster response center hold 31 intelligence and assessment conferences and 55 working meetings, as well as 26 newly-initiated explanatory meetings for journals, which strengthened communication and the transmission of information. In addition, in order to boost the performance of the government's local disaster prevention and relief work, and in view of the fact that the city and county level is the basis of disaster prevention and relief management work, NCDR established the "Easy to Do" website (http://easy2do.ncdr.nat.gov.tw ) in 2016; this website, which is specifically designed for county and city governments, lists important Integration of National Disaster Prevention Research Ⅲ MOST Ministry of Science and Technology 2016 ANNUAL REVIEW