Our Vision
An organization’s vision defines its future direction and reflects its contemporary
backdrop. It is a response to international trends and the need to move with
changing times.
The TaiwanICDF’s vision embodies the mission and core values of our organization
and clarifies the medium- to long-term outcome that we expect from our aid
projects. As Taiwan’s dedicated foreign aid agency, we strive to achieve our goals
based on this vision, which guides our continuing efforts to reform, and the effective
planning and distribution of resources. Our vision focuses our organization on its
priorities and competitive advantages, which we hope will lead the TaiwanICDF to
become one of the best partners in sustainable development within the international
community over the coming decade.
In this chapter we will introduce the TaiwanICDF’s vision and core strategies as they
apply to our operations, define the TaiwanICDF’s priority areas and introduce our
management framework, with its focus on operational strategies and managing for
results.
Sustainable Development
The core policy of sustainable development in
Taiwan’s White Paper on Foreign Aid Policy indicates
that the MDGs should be the primary framework guiding
international cooperation development in Taiwan. The
policy set five of those goals as priority development
areas for Taiwan’s international aid: “eradicate extreme
poverty and hunger,” “achieve universal primary
education,” “combat infectious diseases,” “ensure
environmental sustainability” and “develop a partnership
for global development.”
With the MDGs due to draw to a close in 2015, the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
suggested that the world adopt Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) to ensure that a cohesive set of global
development policies and actions are in place for the next
stage of the global development agenda. In comparison
to the MDGs, which focus mainly on eradicating extreme
poverty, the SDGs would focus on three core issues:
“eradicating extreme poverty,” “ensuring shared
prosperity (including women, youth and minorities)” and
“protecting the environment.” These three core issues
cover the economic, social and environmental aspects of
development, focusing on protecting the earth’s important
resources while the world shares the fruits of economic
growth.
In an effort to achieve sustainable development while
building upon the foundation of the MDGs, we formulated
a number of strategies based on the five development
themes derived from the sustainable development policy
in the White Paper on Foreign Aid Policy. These strategies
were drafted with Taiwan’s competitive advantages in
mind.
With regard to eradicating extreme poverty and
hunger, we plan to assist partners to meet the demand for
food by helping them to increase agricultural productivity
and establish integrated agricultural value chains.
In terms of education, we plan to develop human
resources through vocational training and improvements
to vocational education systems. These changes are also
linked with industrial development.
In terms of combating infectious diseases, we
plan to improve partner countries’ health care systems
by creating more diversified forms of cooperation
and building relationships with strategic partners in
international medical care.
To promote environmentally sustainable development,
we plan to utilize information and communications
technology such as geographic information systems (GIS)
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