BFIC is a public agency designated by Busan Metropolitan City and organizes a comprehensive support program of development cooperation for arousing the interests and encouraging the participation of citizens, institutes, and various entities in Busan. With its platform service, BFIC provides a set of supports covering capacity building programs on development cooperation, incubating services for initiating development cooperation projects, exploring new project opportunities, offering experts consulting, facilitating networking activities, and so on. These are served as a packaged programs or single stand-alone support program tailored to the needs of development cooperation participants in Busan.
Facilitating learning and training of ODA and nurturing young professionals and experts in BusanODA capacity building programs
Supporting for the formation of development cooperation projects in BusanSupporting for incubating service (Mentoring, consulting with experts, all the matter support)
Facilitating collaborative activities between development cooperation experts and potential partners in BusanManaging the Busan ODA experts pool, working-level network activities, and Busan ODA platform (online), etc.
Establishing mid/long-term projects based on city-level cooperation in the local-specialized sectorsConducting the needs assessment, feasibility study, and so on in partner countries
This support program highlights the capacity buildings of individuals and institutes in Busan pursuing effective development cooperation with local resources and talents. It provides a series of capacity building courses consist of instructional subjects about development cooperation, practical approaches and project skills, and case studies with sectoral experts. The courses cover from basic up to intensive level learning contents and enable the participants to learn recent information, knowledge, skills, and insight about development cooperation.
Instructing the concepts and related cases about development cooperation initiated in Busan
Serving a series of practical sessions about how to participate in development cooperation projects, write project proposals and conduct field activities
Guiding the learners to understand requirements and skills for being competent project managers with practices
Learning the latest trends and the project strategies in Busan-specialized projects in line with SDGs
Local institutes and individuals can enjoy supporting services tailored to their capacities and competencies to explore and implement development cooperation projects, apply for bidding and commissioning, conduct results analysis and evaluation, and so on. Consulting and mentoring services are also ready to support the institutes and individuals that want to join in the development cooperation.
We welcome the experts with experience and expertise in development cooperation projects. Any eligible candidate can apply for the Busan ODA Expert Pool to work with local institutes and individuals. For creating the eco-system of city-level development cooperation, this expert pool system is operated as an online platform and offline network activities for inviting various actors of development cooperation.
Development cooperation requires a mid and long-term perspective for exploring and implementing projects and activities in pursuit of effective, flawless and timely results. In cooperation with the partner countries and their cities, this sub-program encourages local institutes and individuals to create new projects satisfying the needs of cities and citizens in the partner countries.