| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 公共行政暨政策學系 === 99 === The main purpose of this research is to try to find a foreign aid strategy for NGOs in Taiwan, to explore the relationship between theory and NGOs. This research uses qualitative methods including in-depth interviews and literature analysis to discuss the reason why NGOs can deepen its international assistance affairs, and to help people understand the role of NGOs in the foreign aid area, as well as what the foreign aid strategies are.
Focusing the discussion on the strategy of foreign aid affairs of Taiwan’s NGOs, the following contents show the dimensions that this research had discovered:
1.The dimension of NGOs resources:
Most of the NGOs’ international aid funds are from civil society; most NGOs do not have enough capacity for foreign aid; NGOs need government to give timely assistance, especially in establishing the resource subsidy mechanism; the government would maybe take advantage of the law enactment to intervene with NGOs’ foreign aid affairs.
2.The dimension of interaction between NGOs and the government in Taiwan:
NGOs and government is complementary in foreign aid area, they compete and cooperate with each other at the same time; when NGOs interact with government, they emphasize the importance of their interdependency and autonomy; the substantive content of the interactive strategies between NGOs and government are strategic choice approach; the difficulty of interaction between NGOs and government, depends on the different traits of both organizations; it is doubtful whether the partnership relationship between NGOs and government in foreign assistance was established.
3.The dimension of international participation in foreign assistance:
In the foreign aid affairs, NGOs do not have a common foreign aid strategy.Obviously, NGOs have their differences and diversities between each other; whether or not NGOs spent time on foreign assistance have nothing to do with NGOs having any assistance strategies; NGOs show high regards to establish a partnership relationship with the recipients; Taiwan government plays an important role and provides some necessary function in the international affairs.
4.The dimension of NGOs’ philosophy and the implementation of assistance program:
NGOs persist in their values and missions; the developments of international aid plan and implementations are not consistent.
5.The dimension of NGOs’ foreign assistance strategies in Taiwan:
The ways that NGOs obtain resources, could not be regarded as strategies; the interaction between NGOs and government, do not have significant strategies; overall, Taiwan NGOs have no consistent and common strategies for foreign aid; all of the NGOs adhere to their own values and mission; and according to their features and differences, NGOs have different assistance targets, a wide program range and implementation methods, which produce different patterns and models, but each of them could not be regard as a strategy.
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