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Hungary
Country Information
NGDO Platform
Hungarian Association of NGOs for Development and Humanitarian Aid (HAND)
Address
Nemzetközi Humanitárius és Fejlesztési Civil Szövetség (HAND)
Szentkirályi u. 6. Fsz. 3.
1088 Budapest
Tel: +36-70-397-7647
Contact Person
Timea Gedeon, Managing Director: project@hand.org.hu
Tel: +36 70 397 7646
Basic data
Start of activities: 2002
Official registration: November 2003
Number of member organisations: 16 members (November 2012)
Link to the platform members' list:
http://www.hand.org.hu/tagszervezetek.shtml
http://www.hand.org.hu/member.shtml
Working Groups (WGs) of the Platform
AidWatch
Africa
Global Education
International Development
CONCORD member since 2004.
Active in the following CONCORD Working Groups (WG):
Aid Watch
Cotonou
Development Education and Awareness Raising (DARE)
Funding for Development and Relief (FDR)
Policy Forum
More information on the platform, its strategic aims, main successes and challenges in 2012: status November and status April (pdf)
Official Development Assistance (ODA)
Website MFA: http://www.mfa.gov.hu
Basic data
- ODA spending in 2011: 100 million EUR (2010: 85 million EUR)
- ODA priority countries: Kosovo, Serbia, Moldova, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Kenya, Palestine, Vietnam
Further reading
- English summary of the first Hungarian Aid Watch Report, by Judit Kiss, on behalf of HAND (October 2007)
- TRIALOG country report: Development NGOs in Hungary, by Anita Bister (September 2005)



