Annual Report

Annual Report International Cooperation and Development Fund

International Cooperation and Development Fund

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Appendix

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2 Introducing the TaiwanICDF 4 ^Preface

6 Strategic Planning and Direction

10 ^Operations

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2018 Cooperating Countries and Projects

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Agriculture

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Public Health

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Information and Communications Technology

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^Education

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Environment

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40 Special Reports

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Improving environmental resilience and capacity to adapt to change

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Actively participating in international organizations to connect with the world

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Using Taiwan’s experience to assist global chronic disease prevention

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Adopting flexible approach to respond to partner countries’ needs effectively

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Developing diversified global partnerships

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Financial Management

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Accounting Management

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Digitizing our Organization

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Human Resources

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PR and Promotional Materials

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Organization Chart

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Board of Directors, Supervisors and Consultative Committee

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Report of Independent Accountants

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Cooperation Projects in 2018

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Cooperation Projects with International Organizations and NGOs 2018

Promoting better economic ties to partner countries.

Cooperating with international organizations, institutions or governments to facilitate social and economic development in our partner countries.

Providing humanitarian assistance to international refugees or countries hit by natural disasters.

Providing technical and human resources training to partner countries, and providing technical assistance or services in order to foster industrial capacity.

Operating overseas missions to improve and develop agricultural, industrial, economic, medical and education sectors in our partner countries.

Other initiatives designed to bolster international cooperation and development or foster good relations with other partner countries.

To ensure that our core strategies can be implemented with tangible effect throughout the normal course of operations, we have developed a set of project planning principles designed to improve effectiveness and results by standardizing the way we carry out our assistance projects.

Coordinating the Use of Resources Implementing a

Project-oriented Methodology

Considering Effectiveness and Efficiency

Safeguarding Project Outcomes,

Sustainable

Replicating Successful Experiences

Project Planning Principles

overseas technical assistance, sending its first group of agricultural specialists to Vietnam.

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1972

Under Operation Vanguard, technical missions help to improve agricultural production in many African countries, expanding its operations to become the Sino-Africa Technical Cooperation Committee (SATCC) the following year.

SATCC merged into the Committee of International Technical

Cooperation (CITC), leading Taiwan's overseastechnical cooperation work and assisting partner nations in their agricultural development.

1989

At a time when Taiwan enters a period of rapid economic growth, the government establishes the International Economic Cooperation Development Fund (IECDF) to provide economic assistance to developing partners.

1995

To integrate Taiwan's foreign aid resources in response to the expansion of the nation's foreign aid operations, the government drafts and passes the Statute for the Establishment of the International Cooperation and Development Fund.

1996

The government dissolves the IECDF and establishes an independent organization, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF), on July 1. The following year, the CITC is incorporated into the TaiwanICDF.

countries through technical cooperation, lending and investment, international education and training, and humanitarian assistance. By utilizing the organization's funds and their yields to engage in direct and indirect investments, and by implementing bilateral and multilateral technical cooperation, humanitarian aid, or educational training programs, the TaiwanICDF's mission is to provide humanitarian assistance for countries that suffer from natural disasters, or for international refugees.

● Respond to international development trends

● Draw on Taiwan's comparative advantages

● Integrate public and private sector resources

● Strengthen cooperative partnerships

Strategy Vision

Partnerships for progress Sustainable development

Mission

● Strengthen international cooperation and enhance foreign relations to promote economic development, social progress, and the welfare of all mankind

The TaiwanICDF's main partners are

governments, international organizations or their designated agencies, corporate bodies, and non-governmental organizations.

The TaiwanICDF was established with an initial endowment of NT$11.6 billion, which was the net value of the IECDF's funds at the time of its dissolution. Sources of funding include the general fund, interest, returns on investments and income from commissions by the government or other institutions. As of December 31, 2018, the total balance of all funds was NT$15.62 billion.

Cooperating Partners Sources of Funding

Accurate as of December 31, 2018

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Overseas Experts

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Domestic Personnel

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Partner Countries

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Actively displaying the results of development aid to the international community

Although our country’s international participation and presence continue to meet with difficulties throughout 2018, Taiwan never shirked its international responsibilities.

Taiwan’s mission to the 71st World Health Assembly staunchly conveyed that we will continue to cooperate on global public health security and development in a professional and pragmatic spirit, and seek to make substantive contributions. The TaiwanICDF played a role in this, holding our first ever forum in Geneva during the WHA to publicize our accomplishments. The event,

”Strengthening Health Care System in Partnership with the TaiwanICDF,” promoted the achievements of Taiwan’s international public health and medical programs among an audience of diplomatic allies, friendly countries and international nongovernmental organizations. The case studies discussed underscored Taiwan’s importance to the global health security system.

Speaking at the UNFCCC COP24, Chairman Michal Kurtyka said: “Today, the world is a global village. We are all interdependent and we have to come together to protect our planet. To do this the world must act in unity.” In 2018, attending COP24 after a 10-year absence from previous events, we cooperated with our diplomatic allies to promote a number of ongoing climate change adaptation projects. This showed the international community how we have employed the Taiwanese model in working with our peers to address climate issues, and let the world that Taiwan can help.

The TaiwanICDF’s achievements attracted attention at numerous other international events in 2018. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development produced a short film on the Greater Amman Municipality Solid Waste Project in Jordan, which is cofinanced by the TaiwanICDF.

The film very well received when screened at the EBRD’s annual meeting. Elsewhere, the Belize City House of Culture and Downtown Rejuvenation Project, implemented to promote sustainable tourism in response to SDG 11, was

cited as a model case by academics from Berlin Technical University during the Ninth World Urban Forum. And in accordance with international development aid trends, we also presented papers detailing the results of our work at the Columbia University International Conference on Sustainable Development, Edinburgh University World Symposium on Social Responsibility and Sustainability, and the sixth Australasian Aid Conference. This raised the international visibility of Taiwan’s development aid model in academic and professional circles.

Contributing to international society – Taiwan one with the world

Article 1 of the UN Charter states that the UN’s purpose is “to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”

Now is a crucial time for the world to work together to tackle global challenges, and at the TaiwanICDF, we have successfully transformed our approach toward partnerships and implementing projects, establishing an effective platform that can really push Taiwan farther onto the international stage. An old African proverb says,

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together,” and as a member of the global community, Taiwan will continue to make whatever contribution it can.

Looking forward, the TaiwanICDF will continue to forge ahead – brave, confident and one with the world.

Jaushieh Joseph Wu Minister of Foreign Affairs Chairman, TaiwanICDF 2018 was a year of transformation for the international

community. With its theme of “transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies,” the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) explored how the Sustainable Development Goals can be achieved through economic, environmental and societal transformation. Governments and communities took part by sharing case studies highlighting the initial results of these efforts. The forum emphasized, once again, global partnerships and the pledge to leave no one behind are key aspects of the sustainable development process.

As Taiwan’s professional foreign aid agency, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) values the needs of partner countries, emphasizes mutual development, and is committed to long-term investment. This Taiwanese model is used to promote development aid projects and serves as a bridge between Taiwan and the international community. In 2018, we substantially transformed our approach toward integrating public and private resources and strengthening cooperative partnerships. To do this, we were proactive in establishing links to domestic and overseas resources, expanding the TaiwanICDF’s capabilities. We also consolidated our best practices and shared them at important international forums, helping showcase Taiwan’s role and values on the global stage.

Employing a range of resources to develop cooperative opportunities

The OECD Development Co-operation Report 2016 pointed out that official development assistance provided by member governments of its Development Assistance Committee covered only 3.6 percent of development needs. Faced with the challenge of limited global resources, the private sector and civil society must jointly invest to address this urgent gap. Taking note of trends in international funding for sustainable development and leading enterprises’ increasing sense of social responsibility, 2018 saw the TaiwanICDF launch

an initiative calling for project sponsors and donors.

Using ODA as a catalyst, we invited private actors to contribute to and participate in several projects, thus developing even more cooperative partnerships across a wider range of areas.

Besides attracting private sector resources, we also considered how projects can best be used to create cooperative and commercial opportunities. By utilizing lending instruments, for example, the Marshall Islands Home Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Project created opportunities for Taiwanese companies to jointly participate in energy transformation in the Marshall Islands.

We also complemented our program of professional workshops with thematic business opportunity forums, discussion sessions and seminars. Taiwanese firms were invited to share industry best practices with overseas participants, establishing channels for matchmaking business opportunities with Taiwan’s partner countries.

To improve linkages to international resources, in 2018 the TaiwanICDF looked to enhance project impacts by combining Taiwan’s advantages and experiences with the power of international academic and research institutions and nongovernmental organizations. Teaming up with such important agricultural research institutions as the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute, we helped partner countries promote climate-resilient agriculture. We also cooperated with such international nonprofit organizations as Food For The Poor from the United States, jointly expanding the scope of projects and helping prevent famine in countries hit by food shortages. And in terms of cultivating international talent, we sought to step up cooperation with such international organizations as Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, recommending speakers or collaborating on international education and training programs. This allowed us to keep up with the latest international trends, promote exchange, and enhance the breadth of our training programs.

Brave and Confident – One with the World

Taiwan can help

With the aim of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries around the world are continuing to steadily and determinedly implement various related programs on the existing foundation and also actively putting innovative thinking into practice, to transform into sustainable and resilient societies and, together, respond to the rapid global environmental, economic and social changes we face.

Progress on the SDGs

In July 2018, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) issued the Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting an overview of progress toward achieving the SDGs around the world. In food security, although ending hunger and ensuring access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round by 2030 are emphasized, international conflicts, climate change and other factors have caused hunger to actually increase.

In sub-Saharan Africa reduction in food output caused by climate change, currency depreciation and other factors have resulted in increases in the price of food and cereals, overall having a negative effect on food security.

In health, relatively good progress has been achieved globally; however, preventable diseases still take the lives of many people and there are still differences from region to region. With regards to women’s and children’s health, the infant and child mortality rate has declined and, apart from sub-Saharan Africa, fertility rate in adolescence everywhere has declined steadily. In infectious diseases, there has been no improvement in malaria infection and data showed that in 2016, 1.5 billion people needed treatment for neglected tropical diseases. Factors such as unsafe drinking water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene caused around 870,000 people to die in 2016, mostly from diarrheal diseases.

In education, more investments in education infrastructure in the least developed countries are urgently needed and disparities in education in terms of gender, urban-rural location and other dimensions need to be reduced. With respect to the economy, although global labor productivity has increased and the unemployment rate has decreased, more effort is needed to increase employment opportunities, reduce informal employment and labor market inequalities, promote work environments that are safe and secure, and improve access to financial services to ensure inclusive and sustained economic growth.

On the environmental front, 2017 was one of the three warmest years on record, with the average temperature up by 1.1˚C compared to pre-industrialization levels.

Sea levels are also rising around the world, increasing the intensity of hurricanes in the North Atlantic hurricane season and the concentrations of greenhouse gases. All countries need to be more proactive with regard to all these issues when implementing their commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change- Paris Agreement.

Closely linking to SDG indicators to ensure consistency of targets and results

In this context, to respond to international trends, in September 2017, the minister of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) presented Taiwan’s Voluntary National Review at a seminar during the UN General Assembly in New York. This report highlighted various public policies and their progress while also showing Taiwan’s concrete contribution to its partner countries. In September 2018, regarding the global threat of climate change, EPA unveiled a progress report on Taiwan’s implementation of the SDGs in 2018, sharing Taiwan’s achievements in six areas, namely:

smart management of water resources, the transition to sustainable power, clean air, sustainable materials management and circular economy, environmental protection networks, and international collaboration, showing Taiwan’s determination to be an important partner for the implementation of the SDGs. Facing the global sustainable development progress and gaps, the TaiwanICDF adjusted its steps and reviewed its own resources to respond to global challenges.

In terms of core operations, the TaiwanICDF continued to track international trends and the needs of partner countries and, in 2018, reviewed its performance indicators to ensure that all operations are aligned with the SDGs.

These include: Number of people who have an increased daily intake of fruits and vegetables in their diet (SDGs indicator 2.2); number of reimbursable assistance projects to increase the value of agricultural activities (SDGs indicator 2.3); number of public health facilities with enhanced functionality and number of medical personnel provided with advanced training (SDGs indicator 3.c);

number of scholarships provided to partner countries to study in Taiwan (SDGs indicator 4.b); number of projects related to sustainable production and consumption as well as environmentally friendly technology (SDGs indicator 12.a); number of reimbursable assistance projects including financial inclusion under implementation in the year (SDGs indicator 8.10); number of measures which have helped to increase resilience in humanitarian assistance projects, and number of facilities which have

Steady and pragmatic transformative approach to actively develop partnerships

Faced with the progress and gaps in sustainable development and deter mined to ensure Taiwan becomes an important global partner for sustainable development, the TaiwanICDF links performance indicators and sustainable development goals based on international trends and the needs of partner countries.

On that basis, the fund uses Taiwan’s development experience to promote cross-disciplinary projects and

enable substantial transformation, while developing assistance and management tools that expand the breadth and depth of cooperative projects. Through collaboration on new issues, we foster mutually beneficial exchanges between the public and private sectors and help partner countries establish sustainable development models, to make more efficient use of finite resources in response to global partnerships.

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in face of climate change; integrating with the resources of Food For The Poor (FFP) to expand project scale;

and enhancing cooperation with Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) and other international institutions on education and training programs to promote exchange and increase the breadth of training.

Increasing management effectiveness and raising profile

While continuing to develop various aid and management tools and deepening and broadening cooperation projects, to enhance the management effectiveness of the TaiwanICDF, in 2018 the overseas mission framework was reintegrated to ensure maximum benefits from the use of resources. Internal coordination was also strengthened to increase domestic and overseas integrated management capability and combine important operations; various types of videos on different themes were produced to enhance the understanding of the TaiwanICDF’s operations.

In international promotion, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development made a video about the TaiwanICDF’s Jordan GAM Solid Waste Project, which was screened at its annual meeting and was very well received. The Belize City House of Culture and Downtown Rejuvenation Project echoes SDG 11 and assisted Belize in promoting sustainable tourism; it was shared as a good showcase by German scholars from Berlin Technical University at the Ninth session of the World Urban Forum.

Moreover, we reviewed the results of our projects and, in accordance with international development aid trends, presented papers at the International Conference on Sustainable Development at Columbia University, the World Symposium on Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Edinburgh and the sixth Australian Aid Conference, raising the international profile of the Taiwan development aid model in the academic and geopolitical fields.

To further share with the international community the various actions taken by Taiwan, in line with international trends and issues, the TaiwanICDF took part in a number of conferences. These include hosting a forum titled

‘Strengthening Health Care System in Partnership with the TaiwanICDF’ for the first time in Geneva at the 71st World Health Assembly in 2018; continuing to take part

in the UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) and, after an absence of 10 years, taking part in UNFCCC COP24 (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 24th Conference of Parties), as well as sharing the important experience of the Taiwan model in various side events during the UN General Assembly and using these opportunities to create diverse partnership opportunities to bring Taiwan closer to the world, and the world closer to Taiwan.

Accompanying the world using the Taiwan model

In face of the urgent needs of the global community to the challenges of climate change and economic transformation, the TaiwanICDF will continue to serve as a bridge for communication with the international community. Through cooperation with partner countries on new issues such as smart agriculture, resilient cities, youth entrepreneurship and energy efficiency, mutually- beneficial exchange between public and private sectors will be promoted. At the same time, in assisting partner countries establish a sustainable development model, we will nurture Taiwan’s ability to adapt and respond to global challenges. Moreover, in the future we will increase leveraging on our strengths across different fields and combine viewpoints from multiple dimensions to integrate the power of the public and private sectors, and, with the Taiwan model, continue to move forward with the world towards sustainable development.

enhanced resilience through humanitarian assistance projects (SDGs indicator 13.1).

Enhancing project efficiency to jointly respond to global challenges

In order to improve project effectiveness, the TaiwanICDF uses Taiwan’s substantial development experiences to promote cross-disciplinary projects, expands project scale and influence on the existing foundation. For example, information and agriculture were combined to help our diplomatic-ally respond to climate change in the St. Kitts and Nevis Enhancing Agricultural Adaptive Capacity to Climate Variability Project. In public health and medicine, we broadened the scale of existing projects, such as the Maternal and Infant Health Care Improvement Project in Eswatini, in which we strengthened cooperation with Eswatini to improve its public health system and expanded the project’s influence by initiating the second phase.

In education and economic growth, the TaiwanICDF invested more resources in vocational training projects to respond to the needs around the world to boost employment opportunities and reduce inequality in the labor market. In 2018, 193 youths from 15 allied and friendly countries received intensive training on 11 vocational subjects, including Mobile Phone Repair and App Program Design and Application, Computer Assisted Machinery Manufacturing, Baking Arts, Hotel and Hospitality Management, as well as Tourism and Hospitality.

In environment, the TaiwanICDF draws on Taiwan’s advantages to assist partner countries enhance their climate adaptation capability. Taking the Capability Enhancement in Using Flood Warning Technology in Belize project as an example, we used Geographic Information System (GIS) to assist with the drawing of flood potential maps and established an early warning mechanism and emergency response group to help the country strengthen climate resilience. Also, to respond to extreme changes in global climate and record-breaking highly destructive natural disasters, the TaiwanICDF has increased the commitment of resources to humanitarian assistance projects and increased cooperation with international organizations such as Mercy Corps, Action Against Hunger, Care International and World Vision to implement multiple projects; we also increased project efficiency by dispatching project volunteers.

Connecting domestic and overseas resources to jointly create a multi-win situation

According to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in the past 10 years Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has continued to increase. In 2017, the DAC’s ODA totaled US$146.60 billion, up by 43 percent in 2007.

However, the total ODA of the member governments of the DAC accounted for just 3.6 percent of development needs.

Facing the challenge of limited global resources, concerted involvement of the public and private sectors and civil society is crucial in order to fill the gap in resources to allow the SDGs to be achieved.

To integrate public and private sector resources and strengthen cooperative partnerships, the TaiwanICDF adopted transformative approaches to effectively utilize limited resources and extend global partnerships. Concrete methods include adjusting the assistance framework that has been in place for 20 years, launching a call for sponsors and donors for aid projects, and actively linking domestic and overseas community resources to expand our institutional capability.

Based on extensive experience and involvement in international assistance, the TaiwanICDF carried out fundraising and enhanced cooperation with enterprises in international public health and humanitarian assistance projects, and by doing so, expanded connections to the private sectors in Taiwan. In terms of individual projects, private sector resources are linked up to create potential cooperation and business opportunities; these include the Marshall Islands Home Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Project that provided Taiwanese companies with the opportunity to jointly participate in energy transformation in the Marshall Islands. Also, business opportunity and discussion forums were added to our professional workshops to provide a platform for business matching between enterprises in partner countries and Taiwan.

In international resources, the TaiwanICDF taps into the energy of academic and research institutions and NGOs to boost project effectiveness. This includes effectively drawing on the capabilities of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) to improve implementation in partner countries of projects that enhance agricultural resilience

TaiwanICDF discusses the achievements of climate-smart agriculture technical assistance projects, highlighting that climate change has caused more than US$96 billion in agricultural losses in developing countries in the past 10 years and assisting farmers in partner countries through technology has become an urgent task.

Agriculture Public Health Education Environment

Information and Communications Technology TaiwanICDF Overseas Volunteers Program Taiwan Youth Overseas Service

Other

East Asia and Pacific

1 Thailand 2 Indonesia 3 Palau

4 Papua New Guinea 5 Myanmar

6 Philippines 7 Solomon Islands 8 Nauru

9 Marshall Islands 10 Tuvalu

11 Kiribati 12 Fiji

West Asia and Africa

13 Burkina Faso 14 Tunisia 15 Eswatini 16 Turkey 17 Jordan 18 Saudi Arabia 19 Bahrain 20 Ethiopia 21 Lebanon

Latin America and the Caribbean

22 Guatemala 23 El Salvador 24 Belize 25 Honduras 26 Nicaragua 27 Paraguay 28 Ecuador 29 Haiti

30 Dominican Republic 31 St. Kitts and Nevis

32 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 33 St. Lucia

Central Asia and Central/Eastern Europe

34 Turkmenistan 35 Moldova 36 Azerbaijan 37 Romania

38 Bosnia and Herzegovina 39 Bulgaria

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2018 Cooperating Countries and Projects

Responding to international development trends and using areas of comparative advantage is one of the TaiwanICDF’s core strategies.

With limited resources, we prioritize our work in areas in which Taiwan has a comparative advantage, including agriculture, public health

and medicine, education, information and communications and the environment. This seeks to ensure resources are reasonably and efficiently invested to achieve project objectives and visions. Below we detail strategic focuses and projects in the TaiwanICDF’s priority areas.

Operations

Case Study

Project technical personnel demonstrates artificial insemination techniques to related extension staff.

In terms of animal protein, the people of Eswatini are usually willing to eat medium priced pork over low- cost chicken. However, domestic pork production has long been unable to meet demand, so the shortfall is usually made up by pork imports.

To amend this situation, in 2013, the TaiwanICDF invited experts to visit Eswatini to appraise the situation; they found that the capacity of the Mpisi National Pig Breeding Station (Mpisi Station), the main source of breeding pigs for local farmers, was insufficient to rear high-quality breeding pigs.

Adding to this problem was the general lack of correct pig rearing concepts and techniques, resulting in low feed conversion rate, poor pork quality and continuing inability to increase output.

A four-pronged approach to promoting the Pig Industry Enhancement Project

TaiwanICDF began implementing the Pig Industry Enhancement Project in 2016 using a four-pronged approach, namely: rearing high- quality pig breeding stock and establishing a high-quality supply system; improving the pig rearing environment in accordance with local conditions; training Ministry of Agriculture personnel and farmers to increase the level of feeding and nutrition management; and advocating the importance of improving meat quality. The aim was to increase the country’s production of pigs with the target of reducing

imports of pork by 25 percent.

In the early stages of the project, the TaiwanICDF actively assisted Eswatini technicians to improve the facilities of Mpisi Station and purchased pure breed boars and sows from South Africa. After quarantine, they were delivered to the Mpisi Station to increase breeding efficiency and the quality of LY gilts.

In addition, breeding pig testing and grading systems were formulated step-by-step and a survey of the current situation of livestock farmers carried out; according to the rearing cost of each grade of breeding pig, the price of the breeding pigs was clearly marked and then the pigs produced in line with the quantity ordered by farmers. Also, for people who were interested in joining the ranks of pig farmers, courses such as pig shed planning and pig rearing and nutrition management were provided. At the same time, with regard to Mpisi Station workers and Ministry of Agriculture extension personnel across the country, breeding and rearing techniques were disseminated. As of the end of 2018, 20 training sessions involving 917 participants had

been held.

In terms of guidance f o r d e m o n s t r a t i o n farms, purebred gilts were provided and guidance given with respect to improving the livestock rearing e n v i r o n m e n t a n d

management as well as assisting them to produce "LY gilts" to increase the market penetration of high-quality pigs. At the same time, construction of a national artificial insemination c e n t e r b e g a n a n d , t h r o u g h training, the level of breeding boar semen collection, testing, dilution, and storage and transportation techniques of Eswatini technical personnel was increased. By means of establishing and implementing the standard operating procedures, pig artificial insemination techniques were promoted to livestock farmers nationwide to reduce the livestock farmers’ production cost of raising boars.

After the first batch of Taiwan high-quality purebred boar frozen semen arrived in Eswatini at the end of 2018, three breeding sows were impregnated, and it is estimated that the first Taiwan-Eswatini mixed-blood high-quality breeding pigs will be produced in the first half of 2019. It is believed this will push Mpisi Station towards the goal of establishing Eswatini’s own breeding pigs and thus improve the overall quality and production of Eswatini pork.

Echoes UN SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

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Agriculture

Taiwan is built on agriculture. With the abundance of agricultural products it produces, its agricultural technology is world-renowned. Since the first agricultural technical assistance mission was dispatched to Vietnam in 1959, projects in agriculture have been an important foreign assistance aspect of the TaiwanICDF. In recent years, as the issue of global warming has increased in urgency and the SDGs were proposed by the UN in 2015, the TaiwanICDF has continued to improve the agricultural production and marketing capabilities and food security of partner countries, as well as helped to reduce hunger through agricultural projects. We have provided technology, renewal of facilities and customized training courses with regard to the farming, forestry, fishing and animal husbandry industries of these partner countries, with the aim of improving farmers’ production efficiency and optimizing cost structure to achieve the goals of reducing poverty and improving health and well-being.

In addition, to preserve our natural resources and ensure the sustainable development of the environment, the TaiwanICDF has also sought out qualified financial institutions in partner countries to provide financial services that promote inclusive growth to support farming activities when farmers or agricultural enterprises are affected by climate change, to engage in sustainable development work in a substantive way.

Strategic Key Points

Rice Seed Production Capacity Enhancement Project in Haiti

The project assists farmers with rice seed production. After the seeds are inspected at the rice seed lab, they are placed in a project-dedicated bag, packaged and a certification label affixed, in preparation for the batch to be delivered to a buyer.

Echoes UN SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere; 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; 8. Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all.

seed rice produced will be enough to plant 37,000 hectares and the average production of beneficiary households will increase by 20 percent.

In terms of building the capacity of country personnel, to date 20 agricultural technicians, 225 agricultural machinery operators, 50 agricultural maintenance personnel, 15 seed testing technicians and 800 seed production farmers have been trained. In the future, on the basis of the existing production of rice seedlings, we will implement seed quality inspection, three-tier rice breeding system, and the system of community seed bank in hopes to achieve the goal of having a national rice supply rate of 100 percent at the end of 2021.

Affected by the dumping of foreign rice and domestic fiscal difficulties, Haiti has had a low rice self-sufficiency rate for years, which has been impacting the nation’s food security. In May, 2017, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse launched the Change Caravan initiative and requested to Taiwan’s ambassador to Haiti that the countries cooperate on the National Rice Seed Production Enhancement Project in 2018, hoping that, before 2021, Taiwan would assist the country increase its rice production to 20,000 tons annually.

Developing different action plans in different areas has increased the national supply rate of rice by 100 percent

Consequently, with Haiti’s largest granary the Artibonite river valley plain as the base, the TaiwanICDF, on the basis of the results of the Rice Seed Production Capacity Enhancement Project which began in 2014 and will end this year, together with the Ministry of Agriculture of Haiti, initiated advance preparations for the National Rice Seed Production Enhancement Project. Firstly, with regard to the part of the project involving Artibonite province, we continued to expand the use of the three-grade seed rice propagation system and national seed inspection certification system and to increase breeding varieties, as well as enhanced agricultural mechanization

and post-harvest mixing and storage processes. Secondly, because the development of the rice industry chain in south, north and northeast of Haiti is not as advanced as in Artibonite, re-integration of local small cooperatives and community seed banks was planned. Through technical guidance and resources provision, the project provided farmers’ organizations with guidance with regard to production of the high- quality rice seeds needed by local farmers, and then were instructed on how to self-test seed quality, establishing a high-quality seed rice local supply chain and fully bringing into play the function of community seed banks. The aim was to facilitate the implementation of the new project, to give farmers’ organizations in every province the capability to provide good quality seed and thus increase overall rice production nationally.

Looking at the results of the Rice Seed Production Capacity Enhancement Project over the past five years, through the introduction of the rice seedling laboratory as well as the increase in

agricultural automatic p ro d u c t i o n , a s i d e from increasing rice production to 2,650 tons annually and increasing the national rice supply rate to 63 percent, it is estimated that the high-quality

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Plantain Development Project in Nicaragua

Nicaraguan farmers use tissue culture banana seedlings, effectively improving the quality and quantity of produce.

Echoes UN SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

Plantain is one of the staple foods of Nicaragua; as well as being an indispensable side dish for the three daily meals it is also processed into popular local snacks. In the last 20 years or so, plantain production has increased fivefold, not on the strength of per-hectare production increase by improving farming technology, but as a result of expanding the land area under cultivation. This has resulted in a failure to achieve maximum synergy for production cost and crop productivity.

Consequently, the TaiwanICDF together with Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and Ministry of Family Economics, Community, Cooperative and Associative (MEFFCA) jointly implemented the Plantain Development Project in Nicaragua from October, 2016 with the aim of strengthening local farmers’ cultivation skills and assisting Nicaragua establish a national tissue culture center to produce high- quality plantain seedlings for use as cultivation material, thereby improving productivity and product quality and developing technology management capability.

Establishing a national-level culture center to produce high- quality plantain seedlings

TaiwanICDF utilized the experience and knowledge accumulated in Taiwan for many years to help Nicaragua set up a national tissue culture center to produce high-quality

plantain seedlings and improve overall development of the industry.

The advantage of the plantain seedling tissue culture method is that disease and pest damage can be avoided. Only exporting banana companies use this method in the country, with the other plantain farmers all using the perennial root cultivation method, which can easily result in poor plant growth and quality; costs are also increased by the expenditure needed for disease and pest prevention.

To date, the tissue culture center has been established and includes a culture plant, offices, in vitro growth seedlings, three satellite nurseries, and a high-quality plantain conservation station. It is estimated that from 2019 to before the project ends in 2021, 1.6 million tissue culture plantain seedlings can be produced and supplied, and the utilization rate of plantain tissue culture plantlets will increase from 0.5 to 4 percent.

In line with the principle of using suitable varieties for the local conditions, aside from introducing the Enano variety

from Central America, local plantain varieties Gigante and Cemsa 3/4 were produced in cooperation with the National Agrarian University’s laboratory and the culture center assisted with training

related operational personnel.

Also, regulations of mother plant preservation and collection of promising lines, collection of banana species seedlings, cultivation research, survey of cooperatives’

demand and other work were all important basic items for this project’s improvement of the Nicaraguan plantain industry.

In ter ms of extension, the establishment of 140 field demonstration nurseries and 16 assessment stations in the main cultivation areas of the country were planned with the cooperating unit; and, through instruction and field observation, pioneer farmers were nurtured, which then had the effect of increasing local farmers’ acceptance of culture seedlings. To date, under this project, 86 training workshops on plantain, seminars and business matching events have been held. It is believed that, through technological development and promotion, the project will enhance the quality of plantains and increase the incomes of plantain farmers in Nicaragua in the future.

The estimated production of seedlings in 2021 can reach

750,000

^units

Case Study

5

FINCORP MSME Re-lending Project (Eswatini)

In line with Eswatini’s national strategy for MSMEs development, the project channelled funding from the TaiwanICDF through local financial intermediaries, breathing new life into local enterprise development.

Echoes UN SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere; 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; 8.

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all; 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

Eswatini’s Development Finance C o r p o r a t i o n ( F I N C O R P ) w a s established in the mid-1990s, funded by the Eswatini royal family and the government of Taiwan. As it differs from an ordinary commercial bank in nature, its sources of funding are constrained by not being able to take public deposits. To enhance its lending capacity, the TaiwanICDF entered into an official agreement with FINCORP in 2012 for a relending project to assist more of the country’s farmers and micro-, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) obtain the capital needed for operation.

Cane sugar is the main pillar of Eswatini’s economic development. As growing sugar cane is heavily reliant on irrigation, when the country was hit by a severe drought in 2016-2017 the sugar cane industry was heavily impacted and production output fell by 14.8 percent. Therefore, assisting the financial institutions that can help farmers to get through the difficulties is more in line with the needs of farmers.

Promoting a farmer-friendly loan model

L o o k i n g b a c k o v e r p a s t cooperation projects, the TaiwanICDF implemented the Lower Usuthu Smallholder Irrigation Project (LUSIP) with international organizations through lending cooperation.

LUSIP was intended to help small farmers transform into commercial

producers to increase household income and achieve the aim of poverty reduction. The FINCORP loan project was structured so as to address Eswatini’s national strategy for MSMEs development through relending in the local currency to MSMEs in agriculture, manufacturing, haulage and transportation, forestry, construction, and irrigation to infuse the development of enterprises with sustainability.

Taking the 2016-2017 drought as an example, facing drought- stricken farmers, unlike an ordinary commercial bank FINCORP didn’t

“Lend an umbrella when the sun shines and take it back when it rains.” It adopted the approach of loan restructuring by extending the grace period or the loan term. From the ranks of sugar cane farmers, it chose suitable farmers to be loan officers who provided suggestions about planting and harvesting to borrowers and kept abreast of their cash requirement schedule to allow loans to be quickly approved when farmers needed money the most.

FINCORP’s assistance allowed many farmers t o o v e r c o m e t h e crisis and continue to expand their business when stability was achieved.

For the TaiwanICDF, choosing a suitable local financial institution

can improve the results of the project.

Through the modification of its business model, FINCORP relieved the repayment pressure of farmers and agricultural enterprises while improving their trust in FINCORP.

Loan amount to production sector issued by FINCORP

Over SZL

300

^million

Case Study

4

Strengthening Incubator Agribusiness with Human Resources Development in Bandung

The project seeks to improve field cultivation and management, post- harvest processing of fruits and vegetables, and marketing capability of farmers in the area.

Echoes SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

Indonesia is one of the major agricultural countries of the world.

The Bandung area in West Java Province is an important agricultural center and is where the Indonesian g o v e r n m e n t e s t a b l i s h e d t h e Lembang National Agricultural Training Center (LNATC). The center actively counsels farmers to integrate agribusiness models to increase their income by strengthening farmers’

cultivation technology and developing new forms of agricultural sales channels. As it lacks experience in providing marketing counseling to farmers, the government aimed through this project to enhance the local counseling capacity of LNATC to assist farmers improve agricultural business operations.

Providing professional agricultural training courses, establishing a monitoring and counseling mechanism

L a u n c h e d i n 2 0 1 5 , t h e Strengthening Incubator Agribusiness with Human Resources Development in Bandung project mainly involves providing professional agricultural training to improve field cultivation management, fruit and vegetable post-harvest processing technology and marketing capability of local farmers.

To assist LNATC improve its functions, in addition to farm planning for greenhouse healthy seedling cultivation, the TaiwanICDF

provided training for extension and seed farmers in conjunction with practical shipping and marketing courses. Through establishing a long-term monitoring and evaluation mechanism, feedback could be given to improve course design, thereby helping LNATC increase the effectiveness of counseling.

In terms of practical guidance, farmers were counseled to become familiar with processes such as gathering, grading, packing and distribution, an agricultural production and marketing mechanism that suits local needs was set up, and farmer- owned brands of agricultural products were developed. Also, LNATC was assisted to establish one shipping point and four greenhouses, with one of the greenhouses equipped with a smart environmental control greenhouse system developed in Taiwan. The aim was, by accurately controlling various local environmental factors, to increase the quality of locally-grown fruits and vegetables, while also providing business opportunities for Taiwan’s agricultural cultivation technology.

With regard to the m o n i t o r i n g a n d evaluation mechanism, LNATC was assisted to establish a databank containing data on the farmers receiving counseling and to regularly track the

current progress of trainees to understand whether there is a gap between what they learn and what they actually need for practical application, for reference when amending course plans in the future.

I n o r d e r t o e n h a n c e t h e marketing aspect, in addition to technical counseling on cultivation management and post-harvest processing to improve the quality of far m produce, the project helped develop a sales channel and successfully sold vegetables and fruits to supermarkets such as Carrefour. Farmers on average sold 500 kg of produce, further expanding their access to markets with higher profits and increasing their incomes.

Number of people who received counseling since 2015

More than

1,080

^farmers

Wellness and Environment and other policy-level members were invited on a two-week visit to Taiwan. As well as visiting Mackay Memorial Hospital to learn more about the diabetes integrated care system, they visited the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Health Promotion Administration, Tamsui Public Health Center, Taipei City Hospital Zhongxiao Branch and other institutions to gain a full understanding of Taiwan’s diabetes prevention policy, integrated care strategies and methods and promotion measures for related health education programs.

D u r i n g t h e v i s i t , t h e S V G representatives were inspired by Taiwan’s ‘blood sugar control A to G strategy’ and, on returning home, proposed the Recommendations for the Diabetes Integrated Care Model Strategy and set about designing a corresponding action plan and diabetes integrated care model, laying a solid foundation for the execution of the project in the following project period.

Also, this project has adopted the train-the-trainer

a p p ro a c h t o h e l p S V G e s t a b l i s h a diabetes professional care team; doctors, nurses, nutritionists and community health promoters go into the community together to carry out health

education activities to increase the self-management capabilities that people need to prevent diabetes. The aim is to use Taiwan’s many years of experience of diabetes integrated care to develop a good trilateral partnership and work together to improve SVG’s diabetes prevention and control system.

Capacity Building Project for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes in St. Vincent

Through community health education and promotion activities, the project ensures the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines are better informed about how to prevent diabetes.

Echoes SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages; 17:

Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

The number of diabetic patients who take the glycosylated hemoglobin

test is expected

to increase

40

^{% in 2021}

Taiwan’s Caribbean diplomatic ally St. Vincent and the Grenadines (hereafter SVG) has seen an increase in deaths from diabetes in the last 10 years (2008-2017) of 39.6 percent, placing diabetes third in the top 10 causes of death in the country. The diabetes death rate in 2017 alone was 4.6 times higher than the global average. Improving diabetes care quality to bring down the death rate has long been an important development issue for SVG.

In light of Taiwan’s achievements in the prevention and control of diabetes and health promotion, in February this year the TaiwanICDF cooperated with Mackay Memorial Hospital, known for its excellence in the field of diabetes, to launch the Capacity Building Project for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes in SVG for the first time. The aim is to jointly strengthen the diabetes prevention system in SVG and assist the country to build a prevention and integrated care system of diabetes.

Introducing experience on integrated care model, bringing a new strategy to St. Vincent

In the early stages of the project, Dr. Del Hamilton (consultant of General Preventive Medicine and Public Health/Non Communicable Diseases coordinator), Ms. Patsy Wyllie (chief health promotion officer) and Mrs. Andrea Robin (chief nutritionist) of the Ministry of Health, Public health has always been a key

field for development in international assistance. In the SDGs put forward by the UN in 2015, the goals of public health include zero hunger, ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, and ensure access to water and sanitation for all. At this year’s 71st World Health Assembly (WHA), the World Health Organization (WHO) forcefully advocated for universal health coverage, hoping that all countries can provide more comprehensive health services through close public-private cooperation and top-down integration of community resources and, through health promotion, increase awareness of personal health management.

As an international assistance and development organization, the TaiwanICDF has, for many years, used Taiwan’s public health development experience to assist our diplomatic allies and friendly countries to develop

a better medical care environment and level of health. This year, the TaiwanICDF has comprehensively promoted projects at the policy level, medical institution level and community level to assist partner countries improve their capabilities in policy planning and strategies, healthcare personnel training and community health education to move towards the goal of universal health coverage hand in hand.

Strategic Key Points

Also, in early 2019, two project volunteers with nutrition expertise will be dispatched from Taiwan to assist with project implementation. Through their in-depth participation, local children's nutritional needs can be improved.

Case Study

3

Philippines Integrated Action for Children’s Nutrition Project

The project established the Pinoy Nutrition Hub (PNH) to better inform community residents about how to obtain affordable nutritious food and teach healthy cooking methods.

Echoes SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.

The economy of the Philippines has developed rapidly in recent years, with per capita income taking the country into the ranks of middle income countries globally; however, it still has a large portion of poor people in its population, with many poor affected by malnutrition. To address this problem, the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 put forward the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) with the aim of reducing malnutrition in the country, especially with regard to women and children.

Providing training in feeding practices and building health stations to alleviate the problem of child malnutrition

To expand the scope of the TaiwanICDF’s humanitarian assistance from post-disaster recovery and reconstruction to new fields and in response to the Taiwan government’s New Southbound Policy, from September 2018, the TaiwanICDF began implementing the Philippines Integrated Action for Children’s Nutrition Project in cooperation with the World Vision Development Foundation, Inc. (WVDF) in Leyte and Samar provinces in Eastern Visayas.

The aims are to improve child health by building child feeding capacity of caregivers in these areas and to assist in the repair and construction of a number of health clinics where local children and their families can

receive appropriate nutrition and health services.

Eastern Visayas is one of the poorest regions in the country, with 45 percent of people in Leyte and Samar provinces living under the poverty line and widespread child malnutrition.

The poor population is a high-risk group for malnutrition and malnutrition also has serious and irreversible effects on children’s growth and health, making nutrition improvement an issue actively promoted by the international community and the Philippine government. To echo this trend, three municipalities in the target area were selected for implementation of the project, which will last 14 months.

This project provides training in proper feeding practices, child care and public and personal hygiene to caregivers in families with children under the age of five years old, and has established community-based Breastfeeding Support Groups to promote correct breastfeeding concepts and methods to help underweight children return to normal.

In addition, this project will build one health facility and rehabilitate two old ones to allow local people to obtain h e a l t h c a r e a n d nutrition services more easily; it is estimated that 29,502 residents in 35 villages will benefit.

Number of beneficiaries

29,502

^people

Case Study

2

Health Information Management Efficiency Enhancement Project in Paraguay

The introduction of a medical information system allows medical institutions to see twice as many patients and reduces waiting time by two thirds.

Echoes SDG 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

With advantages in cutting- edge medical technology and ICT, Taiwan has led the world for many years in the development of medical informatization. Thus, many countries are keen to learn from Taiwan how to build a high efficiency medical information management system and integrate medical information on the outstanding technology of cloud computing.

In order to strengthen the medical information management efficiency of Taiwan’s diplomatic ally Paraguay and increase the quality of medical care, from 2016 the TaiwanICDF cooperated with Cathay General Hospital and Paraguay’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare in implementing the Health Information Management Efficiency Enhancement Project.

The project covers three aspects:

establishing a medical information management system, improving digital learning material production capability and establishing a medical care management system. The aim is to assist Paraguay to gradually set up a medical information system and enhance medical care and service quality in the country, which match Target 18 of SDG 17:

enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high- quality, timely and reliable data.

Digitization of health management substantially improves medical care quality

In the first three years of project i m p l e m e n t a t i o n , t h e Ta i w a n - Paraguay project team carried out a series of system development and examination and, at the end of 2018, had developed a medical information system that spans registration, making an appointment, doctor’s consultation, examination, pharmacy, account, shift schedule management and report form output, and introduced the system to 31 medical institutions in designated demonstration areas.

For example, Villarrica provincial hospital in Guairá Province, which was the first to introduce the system, had an average of 200 patients per day in the outpatient clinics.

Following introduction, the number is already up to 360; people are able to save two-thirds of the time spent in clinics, while diagnosis and treatment efficiency has been sustainably increased by management of patient data through the system. Also, this system can assist medical institutions b y a u t o m a t i c a l l y

uploading patients' data on to the central server of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare every month to allow the Ministry to instantly obtain patient statistics.

Before the system

was introduced, when Paraguayan citizens went to the hospital to see a doctor, manual registration and finding paper medical records were time-consuming, seriously affecting medical service efficiency. After the system was introduced, the diagnosis and treatment efficiency of the benefitting hospitals was greatly improved and people also could actually feel that they no longer had to wait so long to see a doctor.

Additionally, the system can assist medical institutions to automatically upload patients' data to the central server of the Ministry of Health on a regular monthly basis, and the Ministry of Health can access statistics results of health information from medical institutions. These achievements were highly affirmed by the Government of Paraguay, who further requested to introduce tthe system to medical institutions in the capital Asunción so that more citizens can benefit from the system for more convenient and better quality of medical care services.

Average waiting time to see a doctor

2017 2018

3

^hours

one

^hour

Information and communications technology (ICT) continues to develop and transform. Since 2001, many countries around the world have steadily implemented policies for electronic government. The UN defines e-government as the continuous innovation in the delivery of services, public participation and governance through the transformation of external and internal relationships using information technology. In concrete terms, it means that governments use ICT to improve relations with citizens (G2C), businesses (G2B) and with other governments (G2G) to build a government that is responsive, efficient, responsible and provides higher service quality.

As the content and functions of digital gover nance become increasingly diverse, governments around the world are making a great effort with regard to infrastructure such as internet broadband and increased transmission speed to stimulate the digital economy and the development of digital governance, to increase national competitiveness overall. After Taiwan introduced digital government services in 1998, it acquired valuable experience in promoting the establishment of b r o a d b a n d a n d excellent digitized g o ve r n m e n t services.

In light of this, the TaiwanICDF continues to assist diplomatic allies and partner countries to upgrade their telecommunications infrastructure and build e-governance systems and raise the skill level of related personnel through bilateral cooperation involving ICT-related technical assistance projects and loans. The aim is to use Taiwan’s experience of advanced government service integration to assist partner countries in building smart cities with digital technology, allowing citizens to enjoy faster and more convenient administrative services and thus increase overall national competitiveness.

Strategic Key Points

The implementation model of this program since its inception in 2005 has been that countries with which Taiwan has diplomatic relations and friendly countries put forward training requirements. Then, after matching by the TaiwanICDF, on-the-job training is provided for healthcare personnel lasting from one to three months in Taiwan in cooperation with suitable related professional health facilities. This year, 23 trainees from 10 countries came to Taiwan for training at 10 different hospitals.

One of this year’s trainees was Dr. Alejandro Enrique Young Sarmiento from Honduras, who received training in pediatric care operational procedures, care facility and environment settings at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital. Even before returning home he shared the knowledge and experience gained in Taiwan with his peers in Honduras. Another, Dr. Ioanna Beiatau from Kiribati, trained in gynecologic oncology patient treatment and prevention measures at Mackay Memorial Hospital, substantially increasing her skills and knowledge in the field of gynecology. This year, for the first time, the TaiwanICDF was entrusted to train five obstetricians and pediatricians from Ethiopia by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, allowing Ethiopia to also benefit from Taiwan’s medical prowess.

Bringing into play program synergy to increase the professional capabilities of healthcare personnel

In addition, to achieve synergy between projects, this program is paired with training under the TaiwanICDF’s public health projects to allow trainees to serve as contact windows for future cooperation with Taiwan or seed trainers. This speeds up the process of communication in the project preparation phase and capacity building of related healthcare personnel in the future.

For example, in 2018 a nephrology nurse and information engineer who were trained at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital under the Capacity Building Project for the Prevention and Control of Chronic Renal Failure in Belize assisted with conducting training courses on the promotion of chronic kidney disease prevention and control when they returned home, sharing what they learned in Taiwan, allowing it to be used by local healthcare professionals when seeing outpatients. Also, two nephrologists w h o w e re t r a i n e d

a t K a o h s i u n g Medical University Hospital under the S t r e n g t h e n i n g o f the System for the P r e v e n t i o n a n d Treatment of Chronic K i d n e y D i s e a s e (CKD) Project that is

planned to be implemented in 2019 in Nicaragua and two obstetricians who received training at National Taiwan University Hospital under the Promotion of Medical Technology for Improvement of Maternal-Neonatal Health in Guatemala project set down a solid foundation for follow-up work on the projects.

I n t h e 1 4 y e a r s s i n c e i t s i m p l e m e n t a t i o n t o d a t e , t h e Healthcare Personnel Training Program has trained a total of 403 persons. The TaiwanICDF will continue to pursue the objective of building the capacity of healthcare personnel in friendly countries and make every effort to assist healthcare personnel in various countries increase their professional knowledge and expand skills and experience exchange, to improve the quality of medical care in Taiwan’s diplomatic allies and friendly countries.

Healthcare Personnel Training Program

Belize students learn on-the-job about hemodialysis and nursing care for patients with chronic renal failure at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital.

Echoes SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages; 17:

Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

Number of healthcare personnel trained this year

23

individuals