Vision 2022 and Project Planning Principles
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the resources of various stakeholders into our projects,
including those of the relevant domestic government
departments or organizations, international organizations,
private sector entities and non-profit organizations.
We will also develop mutually accountable monitoring
frameworks with partner countries, and expand the impact
and transparency of our projects while enhancing their
effectiveness and sustainability.
Project Planning Principles
To really put our core strategies into practice as part
of daily operations, we must ensure that every one of
our projects has a work plan that focuses on achieving
substantive results as effectively as possible. As such, the
TaiwanICDF’s project planning activities are based on five
principles, discussed below.
Project-oriented implementation:
International aid
has developed into a highly specialized field. Major aid
organizations have placed the concept of the project cycle
at the heart of their work, incorporating it into every stage
of their operations. In keeping with these international
practices, we expect our project teams to implement
project-oriented methods when planning medium- to
long-term projects. This means setting targets to extend
the effectiveness of aid programs, allocating resources
based on the priorities of host countries, and designing
monitoring indicators that can measure the impacts of
projects, as well as their outcomes, outputs and inputs.
At the same time, we will conduct thorough analyses
of stakeholders and risks at the project planning stages,
putting the project cycle and associated concepts into
practice as part of day-to-day project management work.
Project teams will identify, research, design, appraise,
implement, supervise and evaluate each link of the project
cycle, which will ensure that projects meet the needs of
partner countries and are more effective overall.
Ensuring the sustainable development of project
outcomes following handover:
Capacity building is a
core component of virtually all aid work. The main appeal
of capacity building lies in the fact that it enables partner
countries to gain sufficient abilities to take over projects
after donors have withdrawn. Successful capacity building
will ensure that partner countries can maintain project
outcomes and benefits through continued development,
so we have committed to successfully transferring
projects on to partner countries and emphasize sustain-
ability during the project planning and design stages.
Taking both effectiveness and efficiency into
account:
Effectiveness and efficiency are two of the five
standards applied by the OECD to measure the success
of aid projects.
Effectiveness refers to whether a project meets
its pre-set goals. Efficiency refers to how well a project
defines the key path toward reaching its objectives,
and whether it reaches those objectives in the shortest
possible time with minimal resource inputs. After aid
projects have been adequately planned, with targets and
operational details that have been verified to meet the
needs of partner countries, we will continuously monitor
the progress of projects toward reaching their goals and
Bamboo technician Lee Hung-wei (left) of the Taiwan Industrial
Service Mission in the Dominican Republic teaches at a
handicrafts center. To ensure the transfer of project outcomes,
project implementation processes must cultivate partners’ ability
to undertake projects.
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