In 2009, priority countries in Polish assistance are as follows: Afghanistan, Angola, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, the Palestine Authority and Ukraine.

Polish bilateral assistance is also directed to the Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia). In this region the development assistance offered by Poland is focused on European integration, support for widely understood political transformation, planning and management of economic development processes. Assistance in the field of local self-governance development is also crucial.

The Small Grants Fund was launched in 2005, and its objective is to offer assistance mostlynot only to African states, but also to other countries, like Cambodia for example. This kind of development assistance is generally administered by Polish diplomatic missions or missionaries in such countries like Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia or Malawi.
In 2005, many of Polish diplomatic missions used the Small Grants Fund. The projects implemented in Senegal, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone and Cambodia turned out to be a success. Many of the projects consisted of provision of equipment for schools and hospitals or foresaw extension of their facilities.