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The SAIDC is an organization financed by the state budget under the chapter of MFEA SR. Its mission is to ensure the implementation of the ODA SR in accordance with strategic and policy documents of the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Slovak Government, binding EU instruments, UN documents, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as well as other international organizations and in accordance with the international commitments of the Slovak Republic. The status and authorities of the SAIDC is defined by Section 5 of Act No. 392/2015, amending certain acts, as amended by Act No. 281/2019.
Pursuant to this Act, the core activities of the SAIDC include, in particular, the following:
The implementation of the official development cooperation is subject to the basic rules and principles of Slovak foreign policy priorities, and complies with the principles of international development policy, particularly the EU development policy and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development).
The SAIDC facilitates all activities related to the management and administration of the project life cycle under the Medium-Term Strategy for Development Cooperation of the Slovak Republic for 2019-2023, extended to 2024 (hereinafter the "Medium-Term Strategy"), which defines the territorial and sectoral priorities of official development cooperation of Slovakia; and the Focus of Bilateral Development Cooperation for the relevant year (hereinafter referred to as the "Focus"). These include mainly designing and opening calls for grant proposals, reviewing and evaluating submitted applications, preparing meetings of the MFEA SR Committee, contracting project implementers (beneficiaries), financial management and project auditing and monitoring.
Due to the unexpected and fundamental modification of the SAIDC 2024 budget in August 2024 as a result of the commitment of budgetary resources and limits on state budget expenditure imposed by the Slovak Ministry of Finance, the Agency was forced to take fundamental precautions and downsize the activities planned in the Focus, within all commonly used development cooperation instruments it uses. These restrictions also impacted the calls for grant proposals opened in 2024. Initial allocations were significantly reduced, resulting in a smaller number of approved projects.
The role of SAIDC is also to support all those interested in the implementation of development projects from among non-governmental organizations, budgetary and contributory organizations, business entities or academic institutions. SAIDC also communicates the main ideas and mission of official development cooperation to experts and the lay public through different communication activities. In practice, the SAIDC emphasizes the effectiveness of development cooperation, coherence in favour of its enhancement, its flexible delivery of provision and cost-effective spending.