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Special Reports

Integrating Taiwan’s advantages and resources
Promoting cross-sector cooperation

In implementing our operations in 2016, the primary medical assistance resources and continued to collaborate with
focus of the TaiwanICDF was to continue to integrate various Taiwan medical institutions. In addition, through the joint
Taiwan’s advantages, coordinate with government policy, investment with our partner countries and domestic medical
inject cross-sector creative thinking, bring in private institutions in resources and manpower, we expanded the
sector resources and further develop global partnerships, medical service assistance model into a system that raises the
maximizing the leveraging of resources to expand the standard of partner countries’ public health services, assisting
synergies of project implementation. In addition, the partner countries to improve their health care and public health
TaiwanICDF incorporated regional characteristics and systems. In terms of the environment, through introducing the
the needs of partner countries, using these to map out a development of Taiwan’s solar photovoltaic technology, we
direction for foreign assistance work in accordance with combined resources of our innovative R&D institutions and
the objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals industries to help partner countries cultivate professionals in the
(SDGs) and the TaiwanICDF’s vision of partnerships for clean energy sector and foster industrial cooperation.
progress and sustainable development.
Making good use of Taiwan’s advantages
Cross-sector linkages and integration Expanding project synergy
Deepening development assistance Furthermore, to respond to global calls urging the world to
First, to respond to the challenges of extreme weather, raise energy efficiency and promote use of renewable energy,
population growth and aging agricultural workforce, the the TaiwanICDF has made good use of Taiwan’s technological
TaiwanICDF put special emphasis on cross-disciplinary advantages in renewable energy and energy-saving products.
integration of agriculture and technology in promoting In addition to cooperating with international organizations
projects, including introduction of Taiwan’s smart greenhouse to help the developing countries reduce energy waste and
environmental control system which automatically adjusts improve energy efficiency, the TaiwanICDF also worked
the crop growing environment. We also introduced ICT, hand-in-hand with partner and friendly countries to promote
which accurately collects information on agricultural diseases renewable energy projects through direct injection of capital
in the field, reducing the time it takes for farmers to obtain and new technology.
information for effective prevention and control, and made Consistent with the government’s New Southbound
good use of Taiwan’s satellite resources, using GIS to help Policy and the spirit of President Tsai Ing-wen’s people-
partner countries obtain a complete picture of changes in their centered policy to promote exchange of talent and
lands and improve their management of the environment and culture, the TaiwanICDF utilized Taiwan’s rich experience in
applying GIS in agricultural fields to visualize soil data. health, education, technological development, agricultural
Secondly, to widen and deepen development aid, the cooperation and small and medium enterprises to help
TaiwanICDF put in every effort to develop global partnerships, ASEAN and key South Asian nations cultivate professional
and strengthened alliances between the domestic public and human capital through our International Human Resource
private sectors. For example, in international humanitarian Development Workshop Program and International Higher
assistance, we created effective linkages with the UN Education Scholarship Program.
system through cooperation with UN cluster international This year, to address project requirements, we used
non-governmental organizations (INGOs), so that the project-based volunteers to supplement the personnel
affected countries can receive the resources they need and needed at various stages of the projects. Not only did
humanitarian assistance is provided in a timely manner. For the volunteers provide actual on-site observations to the
lending and investment projects, we cooperated with regional TaiwanICDF, helping us understand project implementation
and multilateral development banks, combining the resources synergy and confirm project progress, they also enabled us
of local governments and private sector to broaden project to keep abreast of global conditions, deepen project content
participation and impacts. and continue to make contributions.
With regard to strengthening domestic public-private
partnerships, in terms of public health and medicine, the
TaiwanICDF served as a platform for integrating international

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