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SLOVAKIA, 2013/09/01
The Slovak Republic has become the 27th member of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the leading international forum for bilateral providers of development co-operation.
Slovakia's accession to the DAC comes next a period of rapid expansion in its development activities, notably increase of official development assistance (ODA) from $28 million to $92 million over the 2004-08 period. Its bilateral assistance is concentrated in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, inclunding in several low-gain nations inclunding Kenya, South Sudan and Afghanistan. Projects and programmes focus on building democratic institutions and a market economy, inclunding on promoting social, economic and infrastructure development. The Slovak Republic's multilateral assistance is mainly channelled through the European Union.
