Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman on Thursday chaired the annual session of the Commission for International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Abroad, held via video link. The Commission is an intergovernmental body of Croatia, established to strengthen cooperation among developmental and humanitarian actors.
In his keynote address, Grlić Radman recalled that, since gaining independence, Croatia had travelled a unique road from a recipient of development and humanitarian aid to a relevant donor. In the year behind us, largely marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Croatia has continued to offer assistance worldwide, while focusing its development and humanitarian policy on countries in the neighbourhood, notably Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro, the minister underscored.
The working part of the session focused on drafting a report on the implementation of Croatia’s development aid in 2021 and the programme of the 2022 National Strategy of Development Cooperation.
The participants called for continuing the active engagement as co-creators of development cooperation and providers of development aid, notably in the context of drafting the 2022-2026 National Strategy of Development Cooperation, which will be aligned with the Act on Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Abroad and the Act on Strategic Planning System.
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