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Taiwan’s endeavors in foreign assistance

Cooperation

Facilitating development through technology

The TaiwanICDF has long helped friendly and allied permanent medical missions, implementing public
nations address the challenges of food security, poverty, health and medicine programs, and providing healthcare
malnutrition, and public health and medicine through personnel training, these initiatives have assisted countless
diversified technical cooperation projects. poor families to settle down and pursue their lives. Through
From improving agricultural technology, promoting this positive feedback cycle, they have learned how to
the cultivation and consumption of fruits and vegetables, help themselves and help others and can, as a result, build
providing school lunches and technical assistance, offering the pillars for social development and good health.
education and training, and loans, through to dispatching

1996 1997 1998
‧ The TaiwanICDF was founded ‧ The Committee of International Technical ‧ Dispatched a permanent medical missionto Sao Tome and Principe.
on July 1. Cooperation (CITC) was incorporated into the ‧ Implemented the Two International Roads Project in Swaziland in
‧ Carried out the inverted siphon TaiwanICDF, with an accumulated cooperation partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB).
irrigation and construction work with 68 countries through 105 overseas ‧ Continued to provide loans for post-Hurricane Mitch recovery and
at the Bagre Reclamation Area, technical missions and 12,000 technician reconstruction in four allied states in Central America.
achieving the goals of gravity dispatches. ‧ Jointly established the first fund with enhanced financial
irrigation of the entire region. ‧ Launched the Small and Medium-sized intermediary functions with the European Bank for Reconstruction
‧ Introduced project management Enterprises (SME) Advisory Groups in seven and Development (EBRD).
methodologies of the World Central American countries. ‧ Promoted Small Farmholders’ Financing Scheme as part of the
Bank and established the ‧ Implemented the Central America Re-lending agricultural and fishery technical cooperation projects.
TaiwanICDF project cycle. Project by working with financial institutions of ‧ Established the International Higher Education Scholarship
‧ Established the TaiwanICDF the partnering states and complemented with Program, with six students in the first cohort enrolled in courses on
Overseas Volunteers Program technical cooperation. tropical agriculture in Taiwan.
and dispatched the first of ‧ Jointly initiated the Belize Southern Highway ‧ Conducted the Human Resources Assistance Development
many groups of volunteers to Rehabilitation Project with Inter-American Program in four countries of the Eastern Caribbean region.
Swaziland in Africa. Development Bank (IDB). ‧ Dispatched the first of many groups of volunteers to allied states to
68 ‧ Established the TaiwanICDF Alumni Society. support in Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific.