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Human Resources
In response to trends in international development
assistance and the needs of partner countries,
in 2015 the TaiwanICDF maintained its rigorous
process in recruiting the right people to join our
team. Considering that talents are the most important
asset of any organization, the following key human
resource management programs were carried out
so that knowledge and experiences relating to
foreign assistance could be passed on and top talent
retained:
Fostering Outstanding Senior Personnel,
Passing Down Foreign Aid Experience
The training of specialized personnel in international
development assistance is not easy, and neither is
acquiring experience in the field. As a result, we have
trained outstanding senior staff in their capacity as
lecturers through our internal instructor training courses
so that they may transfer their accumulated experience
and knowledge in foreign assistance to a new generation,
creating an outstanding work team representative of the
TaiwanICDF organizational culture.
Refining Personnel Capacity, Diversifying Our
Talent
We actively assist TaiwanICDF personnel in developing
their professional skills in our priority areas so that
promotion and implementation of our operations will keep
pace with the times, conform to international development
aid trends and meet our partner countries’ needs. In
addition, staffs are guided to develop a second specialty,
nurturing their core competences and assisting them in
career planning, to achieve the goal of the organization, as
well as personal growth and development.
Strengthen Employee Relations, Promote
Employee Retention Program
With a continuing concern for employee welfare, in 2015
we promoted a program that assists employees in dealing
with the challenges of daily life. Through the services of a
professional consulting team, staffs receive support and
assistance in connection with problems of work, health,
family and everyday life. Further, we used e-learning to
improve directors’ sensitivity to employee needs and how
to address them, and conducted classes that include
physical training and art gallery visits, putting our concern
for employee welfare into actual practice, creating a
welcoming, mutually supportive organizational culture and
raising the overall work efficiency of the TaiwanICDF.
Auditing
Auditing assists the Board of Directors to examine
and appraise the effectiveness of internal controls,
to measure and appraise the effectiveness of
operations management, and to identify actual or
potential risks. Audits also provide timely suggestions
for improvement, and follow-up measures are
implemented accordingly so as to safeguard the
effectiveness of fund management and to ensure
that operations are conducted transparently and
systematically.
Key Auditing Operations
Key auditing operations at the TaiwanICDF include:
1. Examining the accuracy of financial and operational
information, and the security of the management of
capital, data and various securities.
2. Examining internal operations and determining whether
procedures have followed relevant policies, regulations
and procedural guidelines.
3. Examining whether assets at the TaiwanICDF, overseas
missions and those allocated to projects are being
utilized effectively and are correctly itemized.
4. Examining whether completed operations and projects
met their intended objectives and achieved the results
anticipated.
5. Investigating projects and making onsite visits to
overseas missions to examine the status of internal
controls, as well as the performance of projects under
implementation.
6. Appraising operations relating to the TaiwanICDF’s key
reforms in recent years and examining the progress
and performance of the organization’s annual work plan
to ensure that its objectives are realized efficiently and
effectively.
Implementation of Internal Controls
Asides from carrying out an examination in accordance
with the annual audit plan put forward and approved by the
Board of Directors, the Auditing Office must also implement
and ensure sustainable effectiveness of the organization’s
internal control system. To this end, it has since 2013
performed annual assessments of the TaiwanICDF’s
internal controls, Taiwan Technical Missions and part
of the individual projects. Internal control assessments
are divided into overall operations and specific levels
of operations. Components of the overall operations
include: control environment, risk assessment, control
activities, information and communication, and monitoring.
Mechanisms for specific levels of operations cover eight