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24 April 2012
Yemen: Coast Guard officer training

Working in conjunction with the MFA, the Italian Coast Guard launched a project last week for the training of coast guard officers in Yemen. The visit allowed for the selection of the 15 participants in training courses to be held in Italy from May to November at centres in Genoa, Pomezia and Messina, with a […]

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23 April 2012
Cooperation: Malindi, reconstruction of barrier reef

The Italian Cooperation is about to conclude a programme aimed at raising the local standard of living in an area approximately 30 km north of Malindi, on the Kenyan coasts, a vacation paradise for many Italians. The programme, carried out in collaboration with the Kenyan government’s Coast Development Agency, has already completed construction of a […]

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19 April 2012
Cooperation: New rural roads in Morocco

New roads in Morocco thanks to 10 million euros in debt conversion funding from Italy. On 31 March 2012 the last of the 8 stretches of rural roadway, linking villages in the mountainous region of Tadla Azilal, in the Atlas range, was opened. The entire Italian-funded network includes another 7 stretches extending 106km in total […]

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17 April 2012
Cooperation: Libya, psychological and social support for children and young people

As part of the actions promoted by Italian Development Cooperation to assist Libya, the project to help young people affected by psychological trauma deriving from the recent conflict is particularly important. 6 teams of experts to reach 80,000 Libyans The project, entrusted to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and worth 1.46 million euros, aims […]

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16 April 2012
Cooperazione: Guatemala, nuove infrastrutture per i più deboli (in translation)

E’ dedicato al programma di emergenza ‘Ran Guatemala’, in fase di conclusione, il secondo numero de ‘La Gazzetta – El Periodico del Sistema Italia en Guatemala’, pubblicazione coordinata dall’Ambasciata italiana. “RAN Guatemala” sta eseguendo, grazie al coinvolgimento di dieci ong italiane, interventi nei settori della riduzione del rischio di disastri e della sicurezza alimentare, ottenendo […]

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10 April 2012
Call for Tender for World Food Day

Still a couple of days to participate in the MFA’s call for tenders for organising World Food Day, to be celebrated in Rome on 16 October 2012. The winning agency will handle not only the logistical organization of the event but also communication and press office activities. The Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the […]

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5 April 2012
Cooperation: Education for girls in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Education Minister, the Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Director of UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) met recently for the signing ceremony for the project on “Retaining Girls in Lower Secondary Schools and Increasing their Learning Outcomes in Ethiopia”. 500,000 dollars allocated The project is a result of a […]

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4 April 2012
Cooperation: new classrooms for South Sudan’s schools

The handover ceremony to deliver the infrastructure for the St. Theresa, East Torit and West Torit primary schools to the South Sudanese Education Ministry is taking place today, 4 April 2012. The structures include toilet facilities, at St. Teresa and West Torit, and a four-classroom pavilion, with offices, in East Torit. The works were carried […]

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4 April 2012
Yemen: the forgotten spring and help from the Italian Embassy

Under the title “Yemen: the forgotten spring and help from the Italian Embassy”, Repubblica on-line has published a feature on the aid brought in from Rome by the Italian Embassy. The aid is intended “to address the needs of the people displaced as a result of on-going conflicts throughout the country”. “A concrete gesture of […]

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29 March 2012
Cooperation: Albania, drug addiction treatment centre opened

A new drug addiction treatment centre has been opened in Tirana at the Mother Theresa Hospital, the country’s largest, in the presence of Health Minister Vasili. The centre, the first of its kind in Albania, was built through a joint programme by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Health […]

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27 March 2012
Ecuador – debt conversion to save the environment

Minister Terzi discussed a debt conversion agreement while meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome with Vice-President of the National Assembly of Ecuador Juan Carlos Cassinelli, here for a series of parliamentary meetings and encounters with the Ecuadoran community. The debt conversion agreement will allow the government of Ecuador to use the resulting resources to […]

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