- Policy
- ODA allocation overview
- ODA to and through the multilateral system
- Bilateral ODA
- Geographic, sectoral and thematic focus of ODA
- Private sector instruments
- Mobilised private finance
- Total Official Support for Sustainable Development
- Institutional set-up
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Development Co‑operation Profiles: Czechia
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Czechia’s development co-operation focuses on reducing global poverty, fragility and inequality while promoting its national interests, such as strengthened security and economic diplomacy through stronger political, trade and investment relations. Czechia is recognised for its strong support of democratic transition and human rights. Czechia’s total official development assistance (ODA) decreased in 2024 to USD 572.2 million (preliminary data), representing 0.17% of gross national income (GNI).
This profile presents verified data on development assistance allocation. See the Development Co-operation Profiles.
The 2010 Act on Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid provides the framework for Czechia’s development co-operation. The 2018-2030 Development Cooperation Strategy sets out five thematic priorities: 1) building stable and democratic institutions; 2) sustainable management of natural resources; 3) agriculture and rural development; 4) inclusive social development; and 5) economic growth. Czechia’s partner countries are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Moldova, and Zambia. Czechia puts a special emphasis on building partnerships across the public, private, civil and academic sectors.
Czechia seeks to advance its national priorities, particularly in the context of the European Union (EU), through which the bulk of its ODA is channelled. Czechia’s priorities within the broader EU development policy include stronger linkages and coherence between development co-operation and security-building measures, the development of international trade and investment, the prevention of forced displacement and irregular migration, disaster risk reduction, and climate adaptation.
The 2023 OECD-DAC Peer Review found that Czechia’s long-term 2018-2030 strategy ensures predictability and provides for flexibility. Czechia engages with the European Union and its members and identifies opportunities for building institutional learning processes. The review recommended that Czechia strengthen its institutional set-up to accelerate progress towards a more cohesive portfolio that explicitly addresses poverty and inequality and builds better partnerships with local civil society organisations (CSOs) and the private sector. The Peer Review found that Czechia had fully or partially implemented 15 of the 16 recommendations of the 2016 Peer Review. Discover insights from Czechia’s 2023 Peer Review and 2019 mid-term review, and learn from Czechia’s practices in Development Co-operation Tools Insights Practices (TIPs).
Czechia provided USD 572.2 million (preliminary data) of ODA in 2024 (USD 574.5 million in constant terms) representing 0.17% of GNI.1 Over the previous years, ODA had remained relatively stable, around 0.13% of GNI, until its peak to 0.38% of GNI in 2022 due to in-donor refugee costs. Czechia is not on track to meet its commitment to reach 0.33% of GNI by 2030 as part of the collective EU commitment to achieve a 0.7% ODA/GNI ratio by 2030. Total ODA on a grant-equivalent basis has the same value as net ODA under the cash-flow methodology used in the past as Czechia provides only grants.
In 2024, Czechia ranked 29th among Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries when ODA is taken as a share of GNI. In 2023, Czechia was among DAC members with the highest share of in-donor refugee costs in total gross bilateral ODA (84.6%).
Czechia has committed to several international targets and DAC standards and recommendations. Learn more about DAC Recommendations.
Note: This table only includes information about ODA data-related DAC Recommendations. ODA: official development assistance; GNI: gross national income; DAC: Development Assistance Committee.
Czechia provided most of its ODA bilaterally in 2023. Gross bilateral ODA was 61.1% of total ODA disbursements. Three per cent of gross bilateral ODA was channelled through multilateral organisations (earmarked contributions).
In 2023, Czechia provided USD 328.3 million of gross ODA to the multilateral system, a fall of 14.3% in real terms from 2022. Of this, USD 314.5 million was core multilateral ODA (38.9% of total ODA), while USD 13.8 million was non-core contributions earmarked for a specific country, region, theme or purpose. Project-type funding earmarked for a specific theme and/or country accounted for 33.4% of Czechia’s non‑core contributions and 66.6% was programmatic funding (to pooled funds and specific-purpose programmes and funds).
The UN system received 8.1% of Czechia’s contributions to multilateral organisations, of which USD 10.7 million (40.2%) represented earmarked contributions. Out of a total volume of USD 26.7 million to the UN system, the top three UN recipients of Czechia’s support (core and earmarked contributions) were IOM (USD 4.3 million), FAO (USD 3.4 million) and UN (USD 3.3 million).
See the section on Geographic, sectoral and thematic focus of ODA for the breakdown of bilateral allocations, including ODA earmarked through the multilateral development system.
Learn more by exploring the dashboard on DAC members’ use of the multilateral system.
In 2023, Czechia’s bilateral spending declined compared to the previous year. It provided USD 494.5 million of gross bilateral ODA (which includes earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations). This represented a decrease of 40.9% in real terms from 2022.
In 2023, country programmable aid amounted to USD 45 million, or 9.1% of Czechia’s gross bilateral ODA, compared to the DAC country average of 43.1%. In-donor refugee costs were USD 418.3 million in 2023, representing 84.6% of Czechia’s gross bilateral ODA. This was a decrease of 43.1% in real terms over 2022.
Czechia disbursed USD 1.2 million for triangular co-operation in 2023. Its regional priority is Asia, with a focus on agriculture, forestry, and fishing. Learn more about triangular co-operation.
In 2023, Czechia channelled its bilateral ODA mainly through public sector. Technical co-operation made up 1.1% of gross ODA in 2023.
In 2023, CSOs received USD 31.5 million of gross bilateral ODA, of which 12.5% was directed to developing country-based CSOs. Overall, 0.2% of gross bilateral ODA was allocated to CSOs as core contributions and 6.1% was channelled through CSOs to implement projects initiated by the donor (earmarked funding). From 2022 to 2023, the combined core and earmarked contributions for CSOs increased as a share of bilateral ODA, from 3.7% to 6.4%. Learn more about the DAC Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Aid.
In 2023, Czechia’s bilateral ODA primarily focused on ODA-eligible countries in Europe. USD 35.9 million was allocated to ODA-eligible countries in Europe (of which 60.3% was for Ukraine) and USD 16 million to countries in Africa, accounting respectively for 7.3% and 3.2% of gross bilateral ODA. USD 10.5 million was allocated to Asia (excluding the Middle East). Europe was also the main regional recipient of Czechia’s earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations, in line with priorities.
In 2023, 10.9% of gross bilateral ODA went to Czechia’s top 10 recipients. Its top 10 recipients are priority countries, specific fragile countries where there is a temporary focus on stabilisation due to crises or part of regional programmes. The share of gross bilateral ODA not allocated by country was 86%, of which 98.3% consisted of expenditures for processing and hosting refugees in provider countries.
In 2023, Czechia allocated 0.02% of its GNI to the least developed countries (LDCs). Czechia allocated the highest share of gross bilateral ODA (5.1%) to lower middle-income countries in 2023, noting that 86% was unallocated by income group. LDCs received 3.7% of Czechia’s gross bilateral ODA (USD 18.4 million). Additionally, Czechia allocated 3.9% of gross bilateral ODA to land-locked developing countries in 2023, equal to USD 19.1 million.
Looking at the distribution of Czechia’s ODA in relation to “ODA per person in extreme poverty”,2 the amount was 0.1 USD in LDCs, USD 0.3 in LMICs and USD 0.8 in UMICs.
In 2024, Czechia provided USD 31.2 million of net bilateral ODA to Ukraine to respond to the impacts of Russia’s full-scale invasion, a 44.8% increase from 2023 in real terms. USD 8.5 million of the amount was humanitarian assistance in 2024, a 16.9% decrease from 2023.
Support to contexts with high and extreme fragility was USD 21.6 million in 2023, representing 4.4% of Czechia’s gross bilateral ODA. Twenty-seven per cent of this ODA was provided in the form of humanitarian assistance, a decrease from 28.5% in 2022, while 3.3% was allocated to peace, a decrease from 8.5% in 2022. Learn more about the OECD States of Fragility platform.
In 2023, more than half of Czechia’s bilateral ODA was allocated to support refugees in donor countries (USD 418.3 million). ODA for social infrastructure and services totalled USD 39.4 million, with a focus on government and civil society (USD 13.1 million). Humanitarian assistance amounted to USD 20.5 million (4.1% of bilateral ODA). Earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations also focused on social sectors and other macro sectors in 2023.
In the period 2022-23, Czechia committed 17.7% of screened bilateral allocable ODA to gender equality and women’s empowerment, compared to 38.3% in 2020-213 and a 2022-23 DAC average of 45.8%. This is equal to USD 15 million of screened bilateral allocable ODA in support of gender equality on average per year. In addition:
The share of screened bilateral allocable ODA committed to gender equality and women’s empowerment as a principal objective was 0.6% in 2022-23, compared with the DAC average of 4%.
Czechia includes gender equality objectives in 8.9% of ODA for humanitarian aid, below the 2022-23 DAC average of 19.1%.
Czechia screens the majority of bilateral allocable ODA activities against the DAC gender equality policy marker (97.5% in 2022-23).
Czechia committed USD 0.1 million of ODA to end violence against women and girls and USD 0 million to support women’s rights organisations and movements, and government institutions on average in 2022-23.
Learn more about the DAC Recommendation on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of All Women and Girls in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance and the DAC Recommendation on Ending Sexual Exploitation in Development Co-operation, and by exploring the dashboard on DAC members’ development finance for gender equality.
In 2022-23, Czechia committed 16.6% of its total bilateral allocable ODA (USD 14.5 million) in support of the environment and the Rio Conventions, down from 22.5% in 2020-21. The DAC average was 39% in 2022-23. In addition:
Five per cent of screened bilateral allocable ODA focused on environmental issues as a principal objective, compared with the DAC average of 9.6%.
Ten per cent of total bilateral allocable ODA (USD 8.7 million) focused on climate change overall, down from 10.8% in 2020-21 (the DAC average was 34.8%). Czechia had a greater focus on adaptation (7.9%) than on mitigation (5%) in 2022-23.
Three per cent of screened bilateral allocable ODA (USD 2.6 million) focused on biodiversity overall, down from 5.6% in 2020-21 (the DAC average was 7.6%).
Learn more about the DAC Declaration on Aligning Development Co-operation with the Goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Note: Individual Rio Markers should not be added up as this can result in double counting.
In 2023, Czechia:
Allocated 2.7% of its bilateral ODA (USD 13.3 million) to core poverty-reducing sectors as defined by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1.a.1. This indicator captures grants to basic social services (such as basic health and education, water supply and sanitation) and development food aid. In addition, 0.4% of bilateral ODA (USD 2.1 million) went to social protection support.
Committed USD 6.9 million (9.3% of its bilateral allocable ODA) to address the immediate or underlying determinants of malnutrition in developing countries across a variety of sectors, such as agriculture, forestry, fishing, unallocated/unspecified and emergency response.
Committed USD 5.4 million (7.2% of its bilateral allocable ODA) to development co-operation projects and programmes that promote the inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities.
Committed USD 0 million (0% of its bilateral allocable ODA) to the mobilisation of domestic resources in developing countries. Regarding the payment of local tax and customs duties for ODA-funded goods and services, Czechia does not make information available on the OECD Digital Transparency Hub on the Tax Treatment of ODA.
To build markets in developing countries and incentivise greater mobilisation of private resources for development, many providers, including Czechia, have established development finance institutions (DFIs) and similar vehicles that extend private sector instruments (PSI). Czechia’s International Development Cooperation Guarantee Programme was assessed as an ODA-eligible PSI vehicle. PSI represented a tiny share of Czechia’s ODA (0.2%), noting that the DAC average of PSI in ODA stood at 1.3% in 2023.
In 2023, the International Development Cooperation Guarantee Programme was capitalised by USD 1.26 Million to extend PSI in developing countries in the next years.4
Czechia uses leveraging mechanisms to mobilise private finance for sustainable development. In 2023, Czechia’s Czech Development Agency mobilised USD 0.4 million from the private sector through simple co-financing. This constituted a significant increase compared to 2022.
Private finance mobilised by Czechia in 2022-23 mainly targeted middle-income countries, representing 74.6% of its total mobilised. Only 25.4% of total mobilised private finance during this period benefited the LDCs and other low-income countries (LICs), noting that 0% was unallocated by income.
Mobilised private finance by Czechia in 2022-23 related mainly to activities in business and other services (65.1%), as its top sector. Furthermore, over this period, 22.3% of Czechia’s total mobilised private finance was for climate action.
Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) is an international statistical standard that monitors and increases transparency of all official and officially supported resources for financing the SDGs in developing countries, as well as for addressing global challenges. In 2023, activities reported by Czechia as TOSSD totalled USD 1.8 billion, up from USD 1.2 billion in 2022. Czechia’s TOSSD activities mostly targeted SDG 1 (no poverty), SDG 5 (gender equality) and SDG 3 (good health and well being). Activity-level data on TOSSD by recipient are available at: https://tossd.online.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is mandated to lead, co-ordinate and oversee the delivery of Czechia’s ODA by the 2010 Act on Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid. The Czech Development Agency is a state organisation under the authority of the MFA. It implements bilateral country programmes and bilateral grants through calls for proposals. Operational guidance defines a clear division of labour between the MFA and the Czech Development Agency, as well as the embassies, implementers and the Council for Development Cooperation.
The MFA and Czech Development Agency have 67 staff working on development co-operation, about 80% of which are based in headquarters.
The Department of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid within the MFA consults with and reports on evaluations to the Council of Czech Development Cooperation – an interdepartmental co‑ordination body. The council brings together government and external stakeholders and is tasked with overseeing Czechia’s development co-operation strategy. CSOs active in development co-operation, humanitarian assistance and global citizenship education co-ordinate under the umbrella body FoRS – Czech Forum for Development Cooperation.
Internal systems and processes help ensure the effective delivery of Czechia’s development co-operation. Select features are shown in the table below.
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2023 OECD-DAC Peer Review of Czechia: https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264264939-en
2019 OECD-DAC mid-term review of Czechia: https://one.oecd.org/document/DCD/DAC/AR(2024)3/28/en/pdf
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid: www.mzv.cz/aid
CzechAid: www.czechaid.cz/en
CSO platform FoRS – Czech Forum for Development Cooperation: www.fors.cz
Czechia has been a member of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since 2013.
The methodological notes provide further details on the definitions and statistical methodologies applied, including the grant-equivalent methodology, core and earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations, country programmable aid, channels of delivery, bilateral ODA unspecified/unallocated, bilateral allocable ODA, the gender equality policy marker, and the environment markers.
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← 1. DAC members adopted the grant-equivalent methodology starting from their reporting of 2018 data as a more accurate way to count the donor effort in development loans. See the methodological notes for further details.
← 2. Aid per person in extreme poverty is calculated by dividing net ODA (bilateral and imputed multilateral) by the population in extreme poverty in each country. Group averages are calculated based on a weighted average of aid per person in extreme poverty and the number of people in extreme poverty for each country in the group. For more information on this indicator, please see here.
← 3. The use of the recommended minimum criteria for the marker by some members in recent years can result in lower levels of ODA reported as being focused on gender equality.
← 4. In 2023, the DAC agreed on revised reporting methods for measuring PSI in ODA based on ODA grant equivalents. Members may, however, take up to two years to transition to the new methods, with their PSI continuing to be accounted for on a net ODA basis during the transition period.