Zhodnotenie oficiálnej rozvojovej pomoci poskytnutej prostredníctvom projektov vybraných zemí Európskej únie

Abstract

The topic of this thesis is official development assistance of selected countries of the European Union. It contains the theoretical basis of development aid and its context in the European Union and the Visegrad countries. In the analytical part, the thesis evaluates the flows of bilateral development aid of the Visegrad countries and their territorial and sectoral fragmentation for the period 2014-2019 and also examines how these two variables are related. One of the findings is that the Visegrad countries do not provide the share of ODA / GNI in accordance with their obligations arising from the international consensus and the EU. The territorial analysis revealed that Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland focus the majority of their bilateral aid to their priority countries defined in the strategic documents. Hungary's bilateral assistance has focused more on Asian countries, which were not on their list of priorities. It was also found that the Visegrad countries focus mainly on their sectoral priorities identified in the strategy papers. The analysis confirmed that the territorial and sectoral fragmentation of the V4 countries is not declining as it should on the basis of the OECD recommendations. Poland has the lowest territorial fragmentation and Hungary the lowest sectoral fragmentation. By examination of the bilateral aid volumes, it was found that countries are increasing their bilateral aid every year. Another finding is, that the volume of bilateral aid affects territorial fragmentation to a medium extent in the case of Slovakia and Hungary. In the case of the Czech Republic and Poland, there was only a low dependence of territorial fragmentation on the volume of bilateral aid.