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From Words to Action – Putting Sustainable Development into Practice

The year 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of the and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
International Cooperation and Development Fund (Goal 4); promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
(TaiwanICDF) and the year in which the international economic growth, full and productive employment and
development assistance community has translated words decent work for all (Goal 8); and strengthen the means
into action. In the Progress towards the Sustainable of implementation and revitalize the global partnership
Development Goals released in July, the United Nations for sustainable development (Goal 17). In addition, we
highlighted the disparities and challenges in the journey to included the SDGs that are relevant to the regional
achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, characteristics and the needs of our partner countries
based on the current progress of the 17 Sustainable to ensure consistency between the implementation
Development Goals (SDGs), in hope to coordinate efforts of related projects and the actions for international
at the global level into effective action through precise development assistance.
understanding of the target populations. Enforcement
of the Paris Agreement also transformed the concept of Cross-sector cooperation, resource linkage
climate governance into real action. Meanwhile, the 22nd and innovative thinking
Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the United Nations In 2016, we planned and carried out a total of 123
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) projects in the priority areas of agriculture, public health
underlined five key areas for international climate action: and medicine, education, ICT, and the environment. In
finance to allow developing countries to green their technical cooperation, we emphasized cross-sector
economies and build resilience, nationally determined integration of agriculture and technology, such as applying
contributions, support for adaptation, capacity building climate-smart agriculture to enhance the stress resistance
needs of developing countries, and full engagement of potential of crops to improve partner countries’ adaptive
non-party stakeholders. capacity to climate change. We also actively sought
In this year when the world transformed ideals into methods to strengthen the connection between agriculture
concrete actions, the TaiwanICDF has embraced this and technology, so as to transform traditional agriculture
vision and taken pragmatic actions in alignment with the into precision farming.
international development assistance community in terms In public health and medicine, we drew on Taiwan’s
of our strategic planning, operations and administrative abundant experience in this field, taking a multifaceted
management. Looking ahead to 2017, we will continue approach to promote relevant projects. In addition, to
to adhere to our vision of partnerships for progress address the need of our partner countries for health
and sustainable development to plan our foreign aid information systems, we integrated Taiwan’s advantages
operations and to march side by side with our partner in public health care and ICT, as well as resources from
countries on the road toward sustainable development. domestic medical institutions and the experience of our
ICT volunteers, to formulate cross-sector approaches for
Aligning actions, internalizing strategies, our public health and medicine projects.
converging with the international community For international education and training, apart from
In strategic planning, following the announcement continuing to implement our International Higher Education
of the 17 SDGs, 169 targets and 230 indicators, the Scholarship Program and professional workshops in
TaiwanICDF conducted an in-depth review on the relevant 2016, we opened specific courses on solar photovoltaics,
issues and chose to include the following goals in our agribusiness development and youth entrepreneurship in
strategic plan as the common basis for our operations: support of the government’s New Southbound Policy. The
end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition workshops were organized to not only present Taiwan’s
and promote sustainable agriculture (Goal 2); ensure strengths and advantages, but also emphasize the linkage
healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages and integration with the resources of the local governments
(Goal 3); ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and private sector, in order to create potential opportunities

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