📋 Tender Overview
Project No.
PPSTI_102_2025A
Project Title
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APEC Science, Technology and Innovative Conference for Disaster Resilience
Project Status
Project in Implementation
Fund Account
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APEC Support Fund
Sub-fund
ASF: Human Security
Project Year
2025
Project Session
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Session 1
APEC Funding
120,000
Co-funding Amount
120,000
Total Project Value
240,000
Sponsoring Forum
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APEC Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation (PPSTI)
Topics
Science and Technology; Emergency Preparedness; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Committee
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
Other Fora Involved
Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved
Proposing Economy(ies)
Chinese Taipei
Co-Sponsoring Economies
Canada; Korea; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Thailand
Expected Start Date
01/01/2026
Expected Completion Date
31/12/2026
Project Proponent Name 1
Yanling Lee
Job Title 1
Secretary General
Organization 1
APEC Research Center for Typhoon and Society (ACTS)
Telephone 1
+88681958673
Email 1
sophiancdr@gmail.com
Project Proponent Name 2
Not Applicable
Job Title 2
Not Applicable
Organization 2
Not Applicable
Telephone 2
Not Applicable
Email 2
Not Applicable
Declaration
Yanling Lee
Project Summary
The Globe is facing the pressing challenges to tackle the impact of natural disasters and weather extremes. The 2023 global disaster loss accumulated at a total of US
$250 billion, roughly equals the entire GDP of New Zealand or Portugal and slightly lower than the disaster loss in 2022 at around US $270 billion, according to report of Munich Re. Disaster impacts can easily reach the threshold and jeopardise business, economy growth and human security to a greater extent. This project highlighted Public Private Partnership on STI to explore strategic STI policy approaches for building a sustainable tomorrow. APEC Research Center for Typhoon and Society proposed APEC STI Conference to deliver: 1) the innovative approaches, 2) government-led policy planning, 3) from best practices sharing on Building a sustainable supply chain , 4) Promoting people to people exchanges , 5) Harnessing digital technology for sustainable growth and 6) AI driven cooperation for Good .
Relevance
Region
Natural disasters and weather extremes are impacting business profitability and economic growth in APEC. ACTS called upon collaboration for synergy to enhance APEC resilience and promotes science and technology solutions for innovative policy and strategic process on decision-making for building a sustainable tomorrow. This project attempted engage institutional capacity among existing APEC center and beyond to explore the STI policy partnership for better emergency preparedness from the best practices sharing on disaster risk reduction (DRR), business continuity planning (BCP) andsupply chain resilience and working together to t
