The thesis is concerned with the development of activities of the foreign development cooperation in the Czech Republic after 1989. The beginning of the work introduces the main concepts related to the theme, the conception of development and the foreign development cooperation. The main development theories and the task of nongovernmental and unprofitable organisations within the foreign development cooperation are also paid attention to. The fundamental theories which the research is based on close the theoretical part. These are the theory of transnational action and constructivism. The research is based both on the study of documents and actual research and on the analysis of high - quality interviews held with the representatives of the chosen unprofitable organisations in Prague. The aim of the high-quality research is to find out how is the development of activities of foreign cooperation perceived by the agents themselves. The key words: the conception of development, the conception of foreign development cooperation, the nongovernmental unprofitable organisations, the theory of transnational action, the constructivism