Outputs:

·    A two-day APEC-wide workshop that will seek to review and reflect on the progress over the past 5 years by APEC economies on the seven principles on promoting supply chain resilience. This will result in the sharing of experiences and lessons learned from the last 5 years and a deeper dive on principles not previously discussed in workshops. The workshop will also hone in principles not previously discussed, covering critical transportation infrastructure and inter-modalism. We will thoughtfully seek participants and expert speakers to achieve the right mix of interests and skill sets. We will look to identify participants who have been closely involved in developing and implementing policies and regulations impacting supply chain resilience, from the transportation, emergency management, commerce and trade or other sectors. 

·    Targeted short-term Technical Assistance will address capacity gaps or areas that need additional support in implementing Action Plans that have been developed. The stocktake report may identify gaps and additional areas for capacity building.  The targeted assistance will look to build on lessons learned from previous economy-level workshops, which were held in the Philippines, Viet Nam, or Papua New Guinea. Thus, the project has budgeted for technical assistance to two of these three economies. Any further assistance would be self-funded. The selection of these economies would be based on voluntary engagement as well as the outcomes of the stocktake report. If the stocktake report points to further economies seeking technical assistance, the POs encourage those economies to seek technical assistance through other APEC funding. The outputs will be determined based on what the technical assistance looks like exactly. The technical assistance may be in the form of targeted engagements or series of in-person meetings/field work conducted by key experts, depending on outcomes from the stocktake and discussions with economies. We do not envision this to involve workshops, but rather more targeted, in-person meetings through an assessment period of a few weeks. The budget includes funding allocated for field work to conduct these meetings. Any materials used for or resulting from the economy-level technical assistance will be made available in the APEC database as online resources. 

·    M&E results from the feedback forms, knowledge gained forms, and follow up surveys will serve as an additional output. Key results will be included in the final report, which will be disseminated to the TPTWG. 

·    A final report will serve as an additional output. This will include key learnings from the APEC-wide workshop, best practices, and a summary of any outcomes from the workshop. It will also include key M&E results.

Outcomes: Through bringing the transportation, emergency managers and companies in each economy together, and by reviewing what has been done to date, APEC will be able to synthesize all of the learnings and best practices to date, and address any remaining gaps or issues. Ideally, all seven principles will have been addressed by the end of the project, in some way or another. Ideally, the workshop will provide for the final pieces, or remaining principles, to be further examined and for economies to be able to reflect on all of the principles and learnings to date, resulting in an increased ability to improve supply chain resilience.

In addition, developing economies that receive targeted assistance will have the ability to more fully implement their Action Plans, leading to moresystematic and prioritized improvements to their supply chains. This in turn will reduce business failures following a disaster, improve services to victims (who are disproportionately women and children), help minimize area and world-wide disruptions following large incidents, and better connect governments and companies in joint efforts to resolve problems and crises that impact them all.

Beneficiaries: The target audience includes the public and private sector of targeted APEC economies and non-governmental organizations. Ideally, the representatives will be mid-level and working in the areas of transportation infrastructure, logistics and inter-modalism - in either a technical or policy development capacity. Representatives from the private sector may be from industry groups involved in supply chain logistics or corporate social responsibility related to disaster recovery. Specific organizations will be discussed with the TPTWG/EPWG delegates and stakeholders from participating economies. These private sector and non-government participants can also provide input and help to review of the progress and gaps of the APEC Seven Principles on Supply Chain Resilience.

Nominations will be directed to Ministries/Departments of Transportation, key industry groups and relevant research bodies in the APEC region involved in supply chain logistics. The technical assistance will target economies that have participated in economy-level capacity building events over the past few years (Philippines/Viet Nam/PNG). Project organizers will ensure that APEC developing economies are fully represented in the workshops to ensure that the expected capacity building outcomes are achieved. In addition, the organizers will ensure that gender considerations are fully addressed during the project planning and implementation stages of the activity. 

The project’s outputs will also have long term/indirect beneficiaries beyond workshop participants. These include APEC governments (transportation ministries, trade ministries, and economic ministries) as the project will provide useful tools and learnings as they seek to improve the resilience of supply chains in their respective economies. The private sector participants will also be able to draw on best practices and lessons learned and apply them in their respective organization or company moving forward.