Plant Back Better –Working
Collaboratively Across the DRR Sector
and Beyond on Climate Smart
Agriculture in the Ati, Iloilo City,the Philippines
Dr. Yanling Lee, Secretary General
APEC Emergency Preparedness Capacity Building
Center (EPCC)
Dr Yi-Chung Liu, Advocator, EPCC

APMCDRR2022 PE: Building Resilient Communities by Investing in DRR Literacy for Proactive Actions focusing on “Leave No One Behind”

Plant Back Better
Working Collaboratively Across the DRR Sector and Beyond on
Climate Smart Agriculturein the Ati, Iloilo City, the Philippines
Yanling Lee (Sophia)
Secretary General
APEC Emergency Preparedness Capacity Building Center

Building Resilient Communities by Investing in DRR Literacy for Proactive Actions focusing
on “Leave No One Behind”
Partner Event ID 558

21 Member Economies in APEC
Emergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG) Mandate
To build the capacity of APEC economies to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters;
To improve coordination and cooperation on emergency and disaster preparedness efforts within APEC.

The EPWG – along with the health (HWG) and counter-terrorism (CCTF) working
groups – is an important part of APEC’s human security agenda to protect
2business, trade and economic growth from disruptions.

Milestone for Disaster Risk Reduction
APEC Disaster Risk Reduction Framework
October 2015

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EPWG Active Engagement
TPTWG (2012)

EPWG, SCCP, BMG (2013)

Global Supply Chain
Resilience

Emergency Response
Travel Facilitation

PPSTI (2010)

ACTS/Climate
ChangeSMEWG (2011)

Business Resilience

EPWG(2015)

Application of Opendata & Big data for
DRR
Plant Back Better

CTWG(2014)

Critical Infrastructure
Security andResilience(2017)
Information input

Private sector’s involvement

APEC Contributions

APEC DRR Framework
Sendai Framework for Action (2015-2030)

The 8 pillars of
EPCC oncapacity
building :1.

Supply Chain
Resilience2.

DigitalResilience3.

CriticalInfrastructure
Resilience

4.

Financial
Resilience5.

LabourMobility

6.

GenderBalance

7.

Climate Smart
Agriculture

8.

Food Security
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Best Practices for Food Security
APEC funded project – Plant back better (PBB)
collaborations with the Philippines in Iloilo City-PBB in Conjunction with UN SDGS

6APEC Plant back better (PBB)
Up to 56% of experts and practitioners are Women “Plant back better”
1.

Resilient-and-sustainable
plantation of vegetables andflowers

2.

Integrated Smart andSustainable Micro businessmodel

MoU singed in 2018

 To have local partners tosucceed the project1.

Iloilo City Government2.

National Resilience Council

3.

SM Group

4.

Manila Observatory

 Other stakeholder
1.

NCDR, EPCC

2.

World Vegetable Center

3.

Known You Seed Company

2nd Phase - Iloilo City
August 08-10, 2019

1st Phase - Iloilo City
April 30- May 02, 2019

 Amidst COVID-19
1.

Food Security

2.

Circular Economy
3rd Phase -Taipei, September 30 - October 2, 2019APEC Plant back better (PBB) on Cross-border PPP
Amidst COVID-19

Smart ICTs support on Early
Warning of Weather Related
Disasters

Sustainable Food Supply
Chain with Nutrition

Circular Economy in 2020 while Lock-down

Cross-Border PPP Approach for DRR

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Publication on “Plant Back Better”• Toolkit download link
– https://www.apec.org/Publications/2020/04/Plant-Back-Better-Toolkit– https://www.apec-epcc.org/resources/publications/• Video clips to introduce “Plant Back Better”– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw85_loTJ7k

Thank for your attention
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NeedMotivation

SocialVulnerability

Confident

From Concept
to Practice

Typhoon

Covid-19

Dignity

Storm Surge

SimpleYanling Lee, Wei-Sen Li, Yi-Chung Liu, Ke-Hui Chen, Chi-Ling Chang and I-Chuan Liao
APEC Emergency Preparedness Capacity Building Center
Yanling Lee (Sophia) E-mail: sophiancdr@gmail.com

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