The NGDO Platform is an association of corporate bodies - it is the rooftop organization of the Slovak non-governmental organizations (21 proper members and 5 observers) which deal mainly with foreign development and humanitarian aid. The Platform’s role is to represent the common interests of its member organization on the domestic as well as foreign ground and to inform member organizations about current developments.

The NGDO Platform is one of the direct actors in the area of foreign development and humanitarian aid, co-operation and policy of the Slovak republic, of the EU and also other institutions focused on the development in economically less developed countries.

The NGDO Platform is the voice of non-governmental organizations which are irreplaceable in foreign development co-operation and humanitarian aid and it represents them in this area at home and abroad as well. The NGDO Platform is part of Slovak Official Development Aid (ODA) and its motive for supporting the member organizations and carry out the development and humanitarian aid is:

• To share responsibility for global development and a moral duty to contribute to reducing poverty in the world
• To keep the commitment and promises stemming from the participation of Slovakia in international organizations and from taking part in international agreements
• To take part in donor community and the need to be viewed as an active part of the biggest actor and donor of the development aid to the third world countries – the EU