ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on explaining changes in the foreign aid policies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia between their creations around the turn of the Millennium and 2014. The chapter is structured into five country case studies, preceded by a short overview of government agencies and institutions in the Eastern Central European (ECE) region. The Czech Republic was the first ECE country to reboot its international development policy, although on a very low scale level, in 1996, just a year after the country's OECD DAC accession. The MFA formulated the principles and strategies of Czech development policy and gave opinions on development aspects of other government policies. In terms of legal and strategic reforms, the Polish Government approved the Act on Development Co-operation Department (DCD) in 2011, which was subsequently approved by the Parliament later in the year. This became the first overarching legal act on international development policy in Poland.
