IMPLEMENTATION OF LITHUANIAN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION POLICY

Lithuania’s development cooperation policy is an integral part of Lithuania’s foreign policy aimed at these objectives:

-Contribute to the global efforts to reduce poverty in developing countries, as well as to implementation of other Sustainable Development Goals declared by the United Nations;
-Contribute to elaboration of sustainable development, democracy, security and stability in partner countries;
-Contribute to elaboration of human rights and gender equality in partner countries;
-Strengthen political, economic, social and cultural relations with developing countries;
-Inform and raise awareness of Lithuanian society on UN’s, EU’s and Lithuanian development policies, their goals, challenges, achieved results, and to seek greater public approval and support for development cooperation.