GENERAL COMPETENCE OF HELLENIC AID

Director General: Merkourios Karafotias, Minister Plenipotentiary

Deputy Director General: Eleni Zorbala, Minister Plenipotentiary

Within the framework of development diplomacy, Hellenic Aid is mainly competent, inter alia, for:

	Handling of the total amount of development assistance funding provided by the state budget as well as by ministries, organizations, public and private agencies for humanitarian and development assistance within the country and abroad.
	Monitoring and facilitating development programmes/projects carried out by public agencies, universities, NGOs and other civil society organizations.
	Collecting, processing and sending to the OECD’s Development Aid Committee (DAC) statistical data on development assistance.
	Monitoring meetings of the Working Groups and Networks of the DAC and the EU.
	Submitting proposals to the Committee for the Organisation and Coordination of International Economic Relations with regard to the future planning of development policy for priority countries, with the objective of maximising the positive results from the implementation of viable programmes.
	Funding emergency humanitarian aid actions and programmes, restructuring and development programmes/projects, as well as development education and information regarding the promotion of voluntary work in Greece and developing countries.
	Supporting Greek participation in ECHO and Europe-Aid programmes as well as in programmes of the EU and other UN International Development Organizations.