The event was held under the auspices of the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Slovak Parliament František Šebej and took place at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic. The conference aimed at searching synergies among development activities of V4 countries in Africa. It was opened by the State Secretary of the MFaEA SR Peter Burian, the member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic František Šebej and the Chairwoman of the Slovak NGDO Platform Zuzana Fialová.
Before the panel discussions, main findings of the report based on the predecessor conference Visegrad Countries in International Development Cooperation, which took place in January 2013, were introduced. In the panel discussions representatives of the national parliaments of V4 countries as well as the European Parliament, executive bodies and the International Visegrad Fund discussed further possibilities of V4 cooperation with African countries. In the last panel representatives of V4 academia and NGOs discussed the involvement of private sector in development cooperation and shared experience from their countries.
To introduce the panel a video interview with a Slovak company active in Kenya was shown.
The programme of the conference can be found here.
Information provided by Andrea Girmanova, MVRO - Slovak NGDO Platform
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