A series of environmental reforms have been implemented by Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of Executive Yuan since 1997. Up to now, these environmental reforms of community (ERC) have received positive responses from communities. The purpose of this project is to promote the environmental quality of local community by meeting local demand and taking actions in a bottom-up style. The main works in this project included: (1) to hold assistant meetings for public servant in local government and appraisal meeting for community participant applications this year; (2) to hold experience sharing conferences for enhancing the mutual understanding among various communities; (3) to assist local communities in implementing ERC project and to collect community indicators on a quarter basis; (4) to assist local communities in registering the Eco Life website; (5) to compile the publication of the achievement in the environmental development of community in 2009 and to upgrade the information on the Community Environment Action Website; (6) to evaluate the effectiveness of ERC project by conducting a satisfaction questionnaire; (7) to analyze future strategies for implementation of environmental reforms.

community empowering；sustainable development；indicator