The COVID 19 pandemic has further accelerated the growth of poverty in the first year of the last decade to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda, increasing the need for effective development cooperation between international development cooperation actors in times of fiscal pressures on donor budgets and tensions between domestic political interests. and promoting sustainable development abroad. The aim of this project is to contribute to building a vision of clear, strategic, expanding development cooperation implemented by Slovak entities, to strengthen calls for alternative approaches, to expand the space for the activities of development cooperation entities. Main activity - The Development Forum aims to practically contribute to the strategic processes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic and to the visibility of development cooperation to the public and create regular events that will create space for exchanging experiences and creating partnerships at the national level, including interdepartmental and international.