For the TaiwanICDF, 2012 was a year for putting things into practice. Through
a range of professional services such as technical cooperation, lending and
investment, international human resources development, humanitarian assistance
and volunteering, we are drawing on Taiwan’s comparative advantages, responding
to partners’ needs and assisting them to build capacity while also respecting the
Paris Declaration’s focus on ownership, managing for results and other principles.
This is allowing us to enhance the effectiveness of foreign aid and pursue sustainable
development.
In terms of projects and funding, total expenditures associated with all TaiwanICDF
projects in 2012 amounted to NT$1.95 billion (including disbursements of lending
and investments of NT$488.06 million, and technical assistance and grants of
NT$1.46 billion). The largest share of expenditures was given over to technical
assistance (71.5 percent, or NT$1.40 billion), and then projects funded by lending
(24.9 percent, or NT$486.02 million), grants (3.5 percent, or NT$68.62 million) and
investments (0.1 percent, or NT$2.04 million).
The TaiwanICDF operates Taiwan Technical Missions
and carries out specially commissioned projects on
behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), as well
as engaging in its own, independently funded technical
assistance projects.
Since 2010, we have taken a more project-
oriented approach to operations. In addition to requiring
our technical missions to submit migration plans and
timetables for every project, from 2011 through 2012
we continued to invite external experts in various fields
to perform annual reviews of our projects. These experts
helped set attainable, quantitative performance targets,
monitored and supervised cooperation efforts between
cooperating units and our missions, and verified the
practicality of migration plans and project outcomes, all in
accordance with the requirements of partner countries.
In terms of capacity building – the most important
part of technology transfer – each of our technical
missions has set out key operational projects, as well
as details on projects that need assistance and/or
capacity building, together with projected timetables,
Technical Cooperation
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71.5% Technical Assistance
24.9% Lending
3.5% Grants
0.1% Investments
Figure 3 Total Expenditures by Project (2012)
