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The Six-Year Plan

Online Date / 
2020/11/19

To ensure the sustainable operation of the Austronesian Forum, the Republic of China (Taiwan) government approved the Six-Year Plan for the Austronesian Forum (2020–2025) in March 2019. The Plan encompasses five major strategies, starting from linguistic and cultural exchanges at the core and expanding towards regional industrial development, academic/policy research, human resources development, and basic administrative affairs. Sixteen specific undertakings under these strategies are listed in the table below.

Austronesian Languages and Cultural Exchanges

Host or participate in meet ings of international organizations

Austronesian language survey research and exchanges

Austronesian museum exchanges

Song, dance, art and cultural exchanges

Austronesian traditional sport competition, rituals and festivals, and voyaging exchanges

Austronesian Regional Industry Development

Comprehensive Austronesian community developments and exchanges

Austronesian industrial exchanges and collaborations

Academic and Policy Research

Host the Austronesian Forum

Austronesian academic exchanges

Researches on the current status and comparative policy of the Austronesian peoples

Human Resources Development

Austronesian youth talent cultivation for international affairs

Austronesian youth student exchange and women's employment and competency empowerment

Establish Basic Meeting Affairs

Operation and maintenance of the Headquarters and the Secretariat of the Austronesian Forum

Build and maintain the Mandarin and English website for the Austronesian Forum

Collect Austronesian issues to establish a (multimedia) database

Convene Executive Council meetings

The Six-Year Plan for the Austronesian Forum clearly outlines the responsibilities of the Forum, which shall be fulfilled jointly by all member and observer states. As President Tsai Ing-wen of the Republic of China (Taiwan) stated so eloquently on March 23, 2019 at the appreciation banquet in Palau during her Oceans of Democracy tour, “We shall strengthen our multilateral cooperative efforts with our brothers and sisters in the Pacific region to preserve its diverse cultures, cultivate talent among the Austronesian peoples, and spur regional industrial development.”