Shall we help? We help! Poland in the global system of developmental cooperation

Abstract

For Poland, the OECD and EU accession meant that it would join the
assistance programmes designed for international development cooperation.
This activeness has raised controversies among the Polish society and
politicians since the very beginning because Poland is to change from a beneficiary
state into a donor state. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
Development Cooperation Department, which is in its structure, are mainly
responsible for assistance for Poland. Since 2015, we are obliged to submit
0.33% of the GDP to the EU budget but we do not fulfil the requirement.
The resources we managed to gather are transferred to the so-called priority
countries, i.e. Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine as well as Ethiopia,
Kenya, Myanmar, Palestine, Senegal and Tanzania.