This site uses technical (necessary) and analytics cookies.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies.

Image headerCooperazione allo Sviluppo

Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

Press Releases
15 March 2022
The Republic of Moldova. Supply of humanitarian goods by the Italian Cooperation Service for Ukrainian refugees and intervention by the Migration Fund to help children

As part of the Italian effort to respond to the emergency in Ukraine, the Italian Cooperation Service organised two humanitarian expeditions, one by land and the other by air, which left the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot in Brindisi (UNHRD) on 11 and 14 March. A total of about 20 tonnes of relief and shelter […]

Read more
Press Releases
14 March 2022
Development Cooperation, Deputy Minister Sereni chaired the Joint Committee

Deputy Minister Marina Sereni chaired the first annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, also attended by the Director General for Development Cooperation, Fabio Cassese and the director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), Luca Maestripieri. The initiatives passed by the Joint Committee include extending the 92-million-euro financial endowment for the […]

Read more
Diplomatic Network
14 March 2022
Tanzania, Ambassador Lombardi visiting Iringa

At the invitation of the Ruaha Catholic University (RUCU), the Ambassador of Italy in Tanzania, Marco Lombardi, visited Iringa, a region in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, to discuss opportunities for collaboration between the RUCU and Italian universities, and in particular with the Catholic University of Brescia and those of Palermo and Turin. During his […]

Read more
Press Releases
10 March 2022
Crisis in Ukraine. Contribution from Italian Cooperation

Italy will contribute to the international humanitarian response to the Ukraine crisis with 25 million euro. The Italian funding was approved yesterday, 10 March 2022, by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni. It responds to the appeals from the United Nations system and the international Red Cross movement following the deterioration in the humanitarian […]

Read more
In detail
9 March 2022
Sahel Coalition, Sereni attends the third ministerial meeting

Deputy Minister Sereni attended the third ministerial meeting of the International Coalition for the Sahel which was held today via videoconference. The Sahel Coalition unites more than 60 Countries committed to the stabilization of the Sahel region which represents the southern the border of the enlarged Mediterranean region. The stability of the region is threatened […]

Read more
In detail
7 March 2022
Ukraine: Sereni attends the Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting in Montpellier

Today, the Foreign Affairs Council, in Development format, was convened in Montpellier to discuss the strategic prospects of European development cooperation, biodiversity and sustainable food systems in development policies. Italy was represented by Deputy Minister Marina Sereni. The meeting, convened by the French Presidency, opened by taking stock of the situation in Ukraine and of […]

Read more
Diplomatic Network
7 March 2022
Ambassador to Hanoi attended a ceremony in memory of Carlo Urbani

Italy’s Ambassador to Hanoi, Antonio Alessandro, travelled to the province of Thua Thien Hue today, March 7, to attend a ceremony to honour the memory of Carlo Urbani and revive relations with one of the most dynamic and historically rich regions in central Vietnam. The moving ceremony dedicated to Carlo Urbani – the Italian WHO […]

Read more
In detail
28 February 2022
Deputy Foreign Minister Sereni meets with the Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mekonnen

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni, met with the Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Demeke Mekonnen for an in-depth exchange of opinions. Deputy Foreign Minister Sereni acknowledged the significant progress made by Ethiopian Authorities in the conflict in the North of the Country, both politically (including the release […]

Read more
Press Releases
28 February 2022
Mission by Deputy Minister Marina Sereni to Ethiopia

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni, arrived in Ethiopia today for a three-day visit. This is the first visit to Africa for Deputy Minister Sereni, and the first since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic by an Italian authority in the Country, who will have meetings at the political level […]

Read more
Press Releases
16 February 2022
Humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation landed in Baghdad

On 14 February, a humanitarian flight of the Italian cooperation landed in Baghdad airport. It left the Emergency humanitarian aid base in Brindisi with about 6 tonnes of medical supplies to fight COVID-19 (lung ventilators, surgical masks, FFP2 masks, protective clothing and gloves), mainly made available by the support structure to the extraordinary Commissioner for the COVID-19 […]

Read more
Press Releases
9 February 2022
Tonga. Emergency assistance from Italian Cooperation following the eruption of the submarine volcano and the ensuing tsunami

Italian Cooperation is providing a 100,000 euro donation to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in response to the emergency caused by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga and the ensuing tsunami. The Italian funding will enable the IFRC to support the work of the Tongan […]

Read more
Press Releases
6 February 2022
6 February: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

200 million: this is the number of women and girls that the United Nations estimates have been subjected to the brutal practice of female genital mutilation and that, in the last two years, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, has continued to rise. Female genital mutilations are an aberrant and unhuman practice that seriously violates women’s […]

Read more