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regular supervision and a learning
evaluation system, students were
expected to achieve notable learning
results and surpass Test of Chinese
as a Foreign Language (TOCFL)
Level 3 proficiency. The first class of
students completed the curriculum
and returned home in August 2014,
while a second class of 29 new
students arrived in Taiwan to begin
their Mandarin tuition starting from
September 2014.
In 2014, MOFA also commissioned
the TaiwanICDF to cooperate with
the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou
Regional Branch of the Ministry of
Labor’s Workforce Development
Agency in holding the Vocational
Training Project for Youth in the
Pacific, which provided a series of
four three-month technical training
courses covering electrical and
plumbing services, automotive
mechanics, refrigeration and
air conditioning, and computer
software and network applications.
The program also included basic
operations and management
courses covering, for example,
entrepreneurial guidance, in an
attempt to raise the employment
competitiveness of young people
in our partner countries. In 2014,
22 trainees from five Pacific partner
countries – Kiribati, the Marshall
Islands, Nauru, Palau and the
Solomon Islands – were admitted to
the program.
In the future, the TaiwanICDF will
integrate the core fields involved
in its foreign aid operations,
accommodating partner countries’
development strategies and their
need for professional talent as part
of the promotion of higher education
and professional training programs.
Our objective is to be a provider of
knowledge-based foreign aid through
capacity building, professional
training and the internationalization of
education.
TaiwanICDF Alumni Society
To promote networking and
continued interaction with and
among trainees who have previously
visited Taiwan to take part in one of
the TaiwanICDF's various training
programs, as well as to recognize
Taiwan’s strengths and to promote
synergy in the development and
cooperation assistance provided to
partner countries, the TaiwanICDF
provides funding so that graduates of
such training programs can establish
and operate individual chapters of
the TaiwanICDF Alumni Society. This
promotes continued exchange and
cooperation between Taiwan and its
partner countries.
Healthcare Personnel Training
Program
Commenc i ng i n 2005 , t he
Healthcare Personnel Training
Program provides training according
to annual requirements suggested
by Taiwanese embassies and
representative offices, as well as
the needs of the TaiwanICDF’s
own medical cooperation projects.
The program is managed on a
flexible and customized basis to
ensure that it continues to improve
and can therefore become better
suited to the needs of medical
personnel in our partner countries.
Trainees are expected to make the
most of their training by becoming
seed instructors, passing on the
professional know-how, skills and
experiences they learn to local
medical personnel, ultimately for
the benefit of greater and greater
numbers of people in partner
countries.
I n 2 0 1 4 , t h e Ta i wa n I CDF
cooperated with 17 Taiwanese
medical institutions in providing
training for medical personnel
i n Ta iwan . Some 37 trainees
from 13 countries enrolled in the
program: eight doctors, 10 nurses,
five midwives, three medical
engineers, two radiologists, one
medical professor, three medical
administrators, four system designers
and one systems analyst.
Region
Country
Asia-Pacific
Indonesia, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi), Thailand, Solomon
Islands, Fiji, Tuvalu, Kiribati
West Asia
Oman, Russia
Africa
Ivory Coast, Swaziland, South Africa
Eastern Europe Hungary, Latvia, Poland
Caribbean
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Dominican
Republic
Central America Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Mexico
Southern
America
Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay
Total 32 countries, 33 chapters
Table 1 TaiwanICDF Alumni Society (2014)