Assessment for promoting on campus disaster management : experience of new Taipei city

Natural disasters become frequently in New Taipei City due to climate change and its geographical location and consequently result in heavy losses to the city's properties in recent years. Disaster management education funds were provided by the government to improve resilience to disasters. This study has developed an evaluation and interaction model to promote campus disaster management based on the method of semi-structured interview with an evaluation table for self-evaluation and expert evaluation systems. The evaluation table have 5 major assessment items with a total score of 100%. The assessment items with different scores given in the parenthesis are organizational planning and campaigning (20%), education and activities for disaster prevention (28%), utilization of disaster prevention tools and equipment (20%), prevention drills (25%), and innovation and performance (7%). Each item has 5 performance indicators with scores dependent on their relative importance. Eighteen schools identified as high disaster risk schools were selected to conduct the self-evaluation and expert evaluation in New Taipei City. Both evaluation results were displayed in radar charts for visual comparison and analyzed using SWOT analysis. The analyzed results provide useful information for understanding the strong and weak points in the present work of school disaster management in New Taipei City and for improving the management work in the future.