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to pursue projects and operations
aimed at developing economies, job
security, ensuring good governance
and maintaining global partnerships;
in terms of human development,
we will continue to pursue projects
and operations aimed at reducing
poverty, ending hunger, providing
education, and promoting health and
environmental sustainability.
Regarding the TaiwanICDF’s
overall development strategy, our
organization sees the policies set out
in Taiwan’s White Paper on Foreign
Aid Policy: Partnerships for Progress
and Sustainable Development
as forming its vision for long-term
development, and implements a
mission to strengthen international
cooperation and enhance foreign
relations through the promotion
of economic development, social
progress, and the welfare of all
mankind, while our core strategy is to
respond to international development
trends, draw on Taiwan’s comparative
advantages, integrate public and
private sector resources, and
strengthen cooperative partnerships.
By boosting operational performance
and organizational efficiency, we
strive to transform the output of
our work into outcomes, applying
the three foreign aid principles of
adhering to appropriate motives, due
diligence and effective practices.
We continue to pursue our
operational priorities according
to long-term strategies already
established, while our new projects
have gradually moved toward a
more integrated, interdisciplinary
a pp r o a c h . I n a dd i t i o n , t h e
TaiwanICDF fully respects the
importance of the overall “institution”
in development, and so, as we
continue to help our par tner
countries develop economically, we
consider institutional improvements
to be a key component of project
capacity building, starting by helping
to improve public institutions for our
partner countries so that it is possible
to tackle development problems at
their roots.
I n 2 0 1 4 , t h e Ta i wa n I CDF
implemented a total of 74 projects
and general operations. Of these,
42 were agricultural projects,
accounting for about 57 percent
of the year’s projects, four involved
public health and medicine (5%),
six involved education (8%), four
involved ICT (5%), and four involved
environmental protection (5%), while
the remaining 14 projects touched
on other disciplines (19%). In the
future, we will continue to focus our
resources on development projects
prioritizing agriculture, public
health and medicine, education,
ICT and environmental protection.
Managing for results, we will
approach the content of projects and
their implementation from a more
comprehensive angle, supporting
our partner countries with a mixture
of assistance methods and tools,
such as technical cooperation,
lending and investment, grants and
training. At the same time, we will
synergize the power of NGOs and
private organizations to continue
deepening different bilateral and
multilateral aid models, rapidly
replicating and promoting successful
project experiences. We will make
full use of Taiwan’s development
experience and knowledge in
carrying out our aid work, broadening
the beneficiaries of our projects and
pursuing more equitable distributive
justice, and inclusive growth.