The project aims at building institutional capacities of the applicant - the umbrella organisation of development NGOs that actively cooperate and are involved in the process of increasing quality and effectivness of the system of the Slovak official development assistace (ODA). In the context of the current development agenda beyond 2015 and the preparations for the Slovak Presidency in the Council of the EU the project aims at increasing institutional and professional capacities of non-governmental NGOs, exchange of information, sharing of experience among development and non-development actors, representing the member organisations at the national and EU level and raising public awareness on development cooperation pointing out at the impact of global interdependencies at the individual level.