The TaiwanICDF's core operations focus on technical cooperation, investment and financing, and international human resource training projects. The aim of these operations is to share Taiwan’s successful development experience with friendly and allied nations and assist in their long-term economic development. In addition, the TaiwanICDF also provides friendly and allied countries with short-term emergency relief in times of need to support their long-term development. This is the reason of the Fund’s humanitarian assistance operations.

Starting in 2001, the TaiwanICDF formally began appropriating budgets for international humanitarian assistance projects to be able to react quickly to natural disasters or international refugee crises. Our humanitarian assistance projects include post-disaster and post-war recovery and reconstruction, improvement of essential medical equipment, donation and transport of goods, and alleviation of poverty.

Regarding the post-disaster and post-war recovery and reconstruction project, the fund usually using its investment and lending core operation to implement. At the end of October 1998, Hondurans and other Central Americans experienced a terrible nightmare-- Hurricane Mitch. TaiwanICDF made every effort to provide emergency aid to our best friend, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, committed long–term loan for Emergency Recovery Program. For the TaiwanICDF's international medical assistance, the fund has cooperated with the Taiwan Nongovernmental Hospitals and Clinics Association to establish the Strategic Alliance for International Health and Medicine in 2006. Following the needy of Taiwan's diplomatic allies, the TaiwanICDF would from a Mobile Medical Mission for the outreach clinic service or a health education campaign. Till now, TaiwanICDF had dispatched 12 Mobile Medical Missions to our allies and friendly nations during the past years. The effort of Mobile Medical Mission could touch deep into areas far from urban centers and win the praise of local citizens, also provides a positive image for Taiwan's participation in global medical assistance work.

The main strategies of the TaiwanICDF1、Using Short-term Assistance to Underpin Long-term Development For providing TaiwanICDF’s successful experience in technical assistance, human resource development, micro-lending and overseas volunteers to friendly and allied countries, maximizing the effects of leveraging in assistance projects to create a wide range of benefits. Short-term humanitarian assistance projects help to underpin and ensure the success of long-term development projects.

2、Integrating Domestic and Foreign Resources to Act as a Platform in Transporting Goods Overseas The TaiwanICDF works in conjunction with the government’s “people’s diplomacy” policies. It cooperates with local and foreign NGOs and helps coordinate resources among NGOs to provide a platform for cooperation. It also establishes avenues to facilitate communication. The TaiwanICDF successfully serves as a catalyst for international cooperation. For instance, activities to provide assistance to war-ravaged Iraq and to South Asia after the tsunami point to the achievements of the TaiwanICDF in coordinating the efforts and resources of local and foreign NGOs.

Countries	Project	Aid Focus
Tibetan Community in India	Medical Assistance for the Tibetan Communities in Leh & Ladakh Range, India	Medical Assistance
Tibetan Community in India	The Mobile Hospital Project for the Tibetan Community in the North India	Medical Assistance
Chinese Refugee Community, Thailand	Medical Assistance for the Chinese Refugee Community in North Thailand	Medical Assistance
Peru	The Emergency Earthquake Relief Project in Peru	Post-Disaster Reconstruction
El Salvador	The Emergency Earthquake Relif Project in El Salvador	Post-disaster Reconstruction
Mongolia	The Snowstorm Emergency Relief Project in Mongolia	Emergency Relief
Four Countries in the Eastern Caribbean -- Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Christopher and Nevis and Dominica	The Eastern Caribbean Medical Equipment Improvement Project	Medical Assistance
Czech Republic	The Massive Flooding Post-disaster Reconstruction Project in the Czech Republic	Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Mongolia	The Scholarship Program in Mongolia (Phase I)	Poverty Reduction
Paraguay	The Children's Scholarship Program in Paraguay	Poverty Reduction
Afghanistan	The Emergency Refugee Relief Project in Afghanistan	Emergency Relief
Cambodia	The Rural Farmers' Livelihood Improvement Project in Cambodia -- Phase I	Poverty Reduction
Paraguay	The Rural Farmers' Livelihood Improvement Project in Paraguay	Poverty Reduction
Senegal	The Yellow Fever Vaccination Program in Senegal	Medical Assistance
The Gambia	The Vaccine Cold Chain Equipment Replacement Project in the Gambia	Medical Assistance
Iraq	Iraqi Refugee Emergency Relief Project	Emergency Relief
Cambodia	The Rural Farmers' Livelihood Improvement Project in Cambodia (Phase II)	Poverty Reduction
Tibetan Community in India	The Medical Assistance Project for the Tibetan Community in India	Medical Assistance
Tibetan Community in the North India	The Medical Equipment Improvement Project for the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Center	Medical Assistance
The Gambia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka	The Medical Assistance Project in The Gambia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka	Medical Assistance
Altai Territory, Russia	The Community Tuberculosis (TB) Care Project in the Altai Region of Russia	Medical Assistance
Mongolia	The Mobile Hospital Project in Mongolia	Medical Assistance
Asian countries	Emergency Regional Support to Address the Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)	Emergency Relief
Kaboré Vincent, Burkina Faso	The Vincent Kaboré Medical Treatment Project	Medical Assistance
Paraguay	The Roundworm Medical Treatment Project	Medical Assistance
Mongolia	The Scholarship Program in Mongolia (Phase II)	Basic Education
India	Medical Infrastructure Project for the Tibetan Community in India	Medical Assistance
India	The Tibetan Refugee Self-help Center Medical Infrastructure Improvement Project	Medical Assistance
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar Oral Hygiene Project	Medical Assistance
Myanmar	Flying Eye Hospital Project	Medical Assistance
Paraguay	Medical Support to Paraguay Supermarket Fire Victims	Emergency Relief
Haiti	Emergency Relief Project for Hurrucane Jeanne	Emergency Relief
Guatemala	Child Sponsorship Project	Poverty Reduction
Thailand	Early Childhood Development Program	Poverty Reduction
Central Asian countries	The Central Asia Community Health & Sanitation Project	Medical Assistance
40 friendly and allied nations	Tons of Love-Material Aid Distribution Project	Poverty Reduction
Swaziland	Secondhand toys for Swaziland Project	Poverty Reduction
Sri Lanka	Assistance to internally displaced people(IDPs) families in Sri Lanka	Emergency Relief
India	Malaria Control Project for the Tibetan Communities in Orissa , India	Medical Assistance
Africa	Taiwan ICDF-Mercy Corps Post-election Violence Relief	Emergency Relief
Africa	Assistance to Flood Victims in Northeastern Kenya	Emergency Relief
Africa	Response to Chronic Emergencies in the Central African Republic	Emergency Relief