Austrian Development Cooperation

Austrian Development Cooperation is a program of the government of Austria that funds countries in Africa, Asia, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean.

Austrian official development assistance (ODA)

The legal basis for Austrian Development Cooperation is the Federal Development Cooperation Act adopted in 2002 and amended in 2003. It contains a list of objectives that prescribes development-policy criteria for the federal administration. The central development-policy positions and framework are defined in the Three-Year-Program on Austrian Development Policy, under the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.