Members of the Platform, aware of the common needs for cooperation and improvement of interpersonal communication, as well as improving their own capacity join in order to achieve an impact on the shaping and implementing of the public policy of international development cooperation and humanitarian aid of the Republic of Croatia.
Goals of the Platform are:
– building and strenghtening the capacities of civil society organizations (hereinafter: OCD) for providing international development cooperation and humanitarian aid;
– if necessary, to be the link between the ministry that is responsible for international development cooperation and humanitarian aid, and the projects of international development cooperation and humanitarian aid of the OCD;
– to participate and influence on the improvement, shaping, implementation and evaluation policies of the Republic of Croatia, the European Union and other international bodies like the United Nations and others, from the area of international development cooperation and humanitarian aid;
– to deliberate and improve international development cooperation of the OCD inside and outside of Croatia about values, principles, methods, and standards of actions;
– to articulate and affirm activist initiatives and organizations of civil society from southeast Europe toward the EU in the area of development cooperation and humanitarian aid;
– to promote education for development and international solidarity;
– to promote international development cooperation and solidarity.