| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 非營利事業管理研究所 === 98 === In the past 50 years, Taiwan has gradually forged ahead to the economic liberalization, internationalization and political democratization accompanied with the economy boom, and has successfully changed its status as a new emerging industrialised country focusing on SMEs and high-technology rather than agriculture, moreover changed from a recipient country which accepted aids from the US and other international organizations, into a donor country which provides foreign aids to the developing countries. As the country has become a new emerging industrialised country and has been nominated as one of the Four Asian Tigers, we are duty-bound to provide foreign aids based on our large foreign exchange reserves, in order to make contributions to the global society.
In 1959, Taiwan created a precedent of the foreign aids that sent the Agricultural Technical Mission to Vietnam for a short-term technical assistance on agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry. As the various technical assistance and economic aids to the developing countries had been increasingly specialized, there was a need to establish a special and individual organization to operate these foreign aids. Based on the administrative regulations, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) was founded as an international development and cooperation organization, which enables the foreign aids operations integrate capital, technology, human resources and humanitarian. This research takes the aids of technical cooperation as the core of discussion. Technical cooperation is a kind of grant, which means through well-planed project cycle, the donor country and recipient country successfully change the aid resources to a force of promoting the production and improving the people’s life condition in recipient country, this needs experts and volunteers to carry out the technical assistance. The research interviewed several volunteers who are working or have worked for ICDF’s overseas volunteers program.
By means of the Documentation Induction and the Analysis Induction of the interviews, the results of the research are as follow.
I. The overseas volunteers provide voluntary services which benefit the recipient countries as follow:
1. to enhance the international competitiveness of the recipient countries with the help of the knowledge and technique of the volunteers;
2. to promote the bilateral relations and improve the foreign relations.
II. The roles and contributions of the volunteers in the international technical cooperation are:
1.the bridge of cooperation and the communicators of the culture;
2.enhancing the social, cultural and economic strength of the recipient countries, and promoting foreign relations and fostering foreign-related talent.
There are some suggestions according to the results above.
I. Base on the foreign policy and due to the limited resource, all of our international cooperation should take the essential benefits as a priority, aiming to assist the foreign relations and bring fortune to the people of the recipient countries.
II. The Volunteer group, neck to neck with the public and private sectors, has become one of the human resource on which the foreign aids organizations highly dependent. In order to foster the best overseas volunteers, we have to further discuss how to create favorable terms to attract more people as overseas volunteers.
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