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Strategic Planning and Direction

To share the responsibilities for sustainable development, the international community is carrying out
various meetings to build a global consensus on governance.

Shouldering the responsibilities of international our priority areas into our strategic plan, including “end
cooperation hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and
The TaiwanICDF was founded in 1996 under public promote sustainable agriculture” (Goal 2), “ensure healthy
expectations to establish a professional development lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” (Goal 3),
assistance agency and marked its 20th anniversary in “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and
2016. Just as the SDGs and the Paris Agreement were promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” (Goal 4),
the results of countless discussions and amendments, “promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic
similarly the government of Taiwan has, over the past two growth, full and productive employment and decent
decades, refined the ways Taiwan can participate in foreign work for all” (Goal 8), and “strengthen the means of
development assistance and continuously improved internal implementation and revitalize the global partnership for
and external communications to establish consensus on sustainable development” (Goal 17), to form the common
long-term stable development with our partners. basis and direction for our initiatives. Beyond the general
In practice, the TaiwanICDF has been committed directions, we incorporated other SDG targets according
to assisting the socio-economic development of our to the regional characteristics and needs of our partner
partner countries. A wide range of projects have been nations to ensure consistency between our projects and
implemented from the first agricultural mission to Vietnam international development assistance processes.
in 1959 to the agricultural technical missions, medical To echo the global agenda on climate governance, the
missions and handicraft missions in 1985 in response to TaiwanICDF not only took stock of existing projects and
our partner countries’ needs, to integrating our technical the INDC documents of partner countries, we planned the
missions in 1999 with an emphasis on technology future direction of our projects so as to assist our partner
guidance and capacity building to promote wider nations to build resilient infrastructure, promote the use
forms of assistance aside from agriculture. In 2010, the of renewable energy and enhance energy efficiency, and
government promulgated the International Cooperation improve agricultural productivity with technology, to jointly
and Development Act, establishing a legal basis for respond to climate change issues.
Taiwan’s international cooperation and development In agriculture, in response to SDG 2 to end hunger,
affairs. Accordingly, the TaiwanICDF continued to improve achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote
our project cycle mechanism and implemented a design sustainable agriculture, we focused resources on the mid-
and monitoring framework (DMF) to enhance project and upstream parts of the value chain and integrated
effectiveness by optimizing project management tools. Taiwan’s strengths in agriculture and technology to help
The diversity of our five priority areas, extending from partner countries cultivate quality seeds. Moreover,
agriculture and land reclamation to today’s cross-sectoral we strengthened crops’ resistance to environmental
aspects that encompass information and communications changes during the production process to assist our
technology (ICT), public health and medicine, education and partner countries develop better adaptability to climate
environment, represents the experiences and adjustments change and in turn increase their revenues and minimize
that the TaiwanICDF has accumulated over the past 20 environmental impacts.
years in our quest for continuous improvement. In public health and medicine, in view of the lack
of medical resources in most partner countries, we
Stepping up action to link with the international cooperated with various domestic medical institutions to
community consolidate public health and medical resources through
2016 was a year of action both at the TaiwanICDF the establishment of public-private partnerships. Through
and in the international community. In terms of strategy, our Healthcare Personnel Training Program, personnel
following analysis of the SDGs and the main thrust of capacity building, enhancing institutional capacity and
our operations, we internalized the Goals relevant to establishing a basic epidemiology database, we assist

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