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Over the years, as Taiwan’s official professional
development assistance organization, the International
Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF)
has assisted partner countries with capacity building
through the implementation of our operations in technical
cooperation, lending and investment, international
education and training, and humanitarian assistance,
utilizing Taiwan’s comparative advantages to carry out
projects in response to these countries’ needs.
In facing the main issue of global concern in
international cooperation and development—how to
achieve the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), the TaiwanICDF will continue to plan and carry out
our operations using the experiences accumulated from
implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
and base ourselves on the spirit of the SDGs framework
as the context for developing our future projects. In
addition, we will gradually reform in accordance with other
international organization’s practices, using objective and
scientific analysis methods to achieve self-improvement
and progress, and identify successful project pathways in
order to enhance our operations and to allocate resources
efficiently.
Our partner countries are located for the most part in
the regions of Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean,
Africa, West Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Each
of these regions is unique in terms of geography, culture,
social and economic structures, and development, and
the resources they possess and challenges they face are
likewise different. Thus, in the course of project planning
and evaluation, we first formulate the most pressing needs
of each region that correspond to our organization’s overall
strategy and direction for regional cooperation, before
consulting with our partners on the most appropriate
project to implement. In addition to appointing a Taiwan
Technical Mission or project manager responsible for
the actual implementation, we value the stakeholders’
participation and voice and ensure their involvement,
building the capacity needed for development and
enhancing the accountability of project execution.
Using Regional Cooperation Development Strategy, Assisting Partner
Countries to Diversify Development
Weber V. B. Shih, Secretary General of the TaiwanICDF, listening to a seed teacher give a tutorial on a visit to vocational training facilities of a technical
assistance program in Burkina Faso.
Operations
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