Environmental quality is one the important indicators of the national competitiveness. Therefore, the Environmental Protection Administration of Executive Yuan has implemented a series of environmental reforms since 1997. In order to promote the environmental quality of community, the main characteristics of these environmental reforms are focusing on both bottom-up mechanisms and local community demands. The major works of this project included: (1) to hold both appraisal meetings for multi-community and environmental learning center applicants and assistant meeting for local government public servants, (2) to hold assistant meeting for local government public servants for promoting understanding of this project,(3) to hold environmental education seed teacher training workshops for improving the concept of environmental education, (4) to hold experience sharing conferences for promoting the understanding among different communities, (5) to provide on-the-spot technical counseling for both multi-community and environmental learning center, (6) to assist communities in implementing projects of environmental reforms and to analyze community indicators on a quarter basis, (7) to establish an Community Environmental Action Website including information database and update previous related data, (8) to compile the publications of the achievement in the multi-community and environmental learning center this year and, (9) to assess the effectiveness of current community environmental reforms by analyzing a satisfaction questionnaire.

community empowerment, environmental learning center, environmental education