The Evolution of International Cooperation
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The six regulations are: Regulations Governing the Dispatch of Personnel for International Cooperation and Development Affairs; Regulations Governing Technical Assistance and Capacity Building for
International Cooperation and Development Affairs; Regulations Governing Loans, Investments and Guarantees for International Cooperation and Development Affairs; Regulations Governing Financial
Donations and Gifts in Kind for International Cooperation and Development Affairs; Regulations Governing Development Strategy Consultations for International Cooperation and Development Affairs; and
Regulations Governing the Planning, Appraisal, Implementation, Supervision and Performance Evaluation of International Cooperation and Development Affairs.
Reforming Taiwan’s International Assistance and the TaiwanICDF
Establishing a Legal, Transparent, Professional
Foreign Aid System in Taiwan
In response to this reforming trend for more
effectiveness in international aid, in 2009 the Taiwanese
government published its White Paper on Foreign Aid
Policy, which outlined three principles: proper goals, legal
processes and effective administration. The government
further proposed that the concept of “partnerships for
progress and sustainable development” should be at the
core of Taiwan’s foreign aid programs, and set out to
establish an effective model for development aid based on
the principle of managing for results that would promote
efficient project implementation and exemplify the five
operational guidelines of the Paris Declaration on Aid
Effectiveness.
The International Cooperation and Development
Act was then promulgated in June 2010. This legislation
describes the objectives, principles, scope, methods
and partners for Taiwan’s international cooperation and
development efforts, providing the legal basis under which
Taiwan provides international assistance, as well as an
open, transparent framework of associated procedures.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs set forth six subsidiary
regulations
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in December 2011 to further regulate
the necessary procedures involved in the practice of
international cooperation and development.
To ensure that the TaiwanICDF is organized and
managed under principles of openness, transparency
and accountability, the TaiwanICDF follows the Operating
Guidelines for Administrative Supervision of Government-
donated Foundations and the Operating Principles
for Performance Evaluation of Government-donated
Foundations set forth by the Executive Yuan. These
regulations form the basis for the TaiwanICDF’s adminis-
trative supervision mechanisms, objectives, annual goals
and annual performance evaluation indicators.
In addition, the sixth regulation under the International
Cooperation and Development Act – Regulations
Governing the Planning, Appraisal, Implementation,
Supervision and Performance Evaluation of International
Cooperation and Development Affairs – specifies that
assistance projects must be implemented and managed
in accordance with the project cycle. In this way, the
TaiwanICDF strives to be fully accountable to the relevant
authorities, stakeholders and the public for its adminis-
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