Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

In detail

10 December 2018

Human Rights and Cooperation: three initiatives focused on women

The protection of human rights is a theme that is transversal to all the actions performed by the Italian Cooperation service around the world. On the international Human Rights Day, alongside the issues traditionally upheld by Italy, such as promoting a universal moratorium on the death penalty, mention should also be made of several specific […]

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Press Releases

7 December 2018

Deputy Minister visits Addis Ababa

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela del Re, announced a one million euros humanitarian aid package for the people of Ethiopia during a visit to Addis Ababa.  It will allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to provide medicines and medical devices to displaced people in the border between the regions […]

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Press Releases

6 December 2018

Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Rei visits Asmara

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, announced the granting of a humanitarian and emergency aid package of over 1.6 million euros to support the people of Eritrea during her visit to Asmara. The grant will be allocated to the UNICEF and the FAO. It will help UNICEF in its efforts […]

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Diplomatic Network

3 December 2018

Italian Cooperation system confirms its engagement to fight leukaemia

The Italian Cooperation system and the Cell Biology Unit UBC of the Universidad Mayor de San Andreas in La Paz have been cooperating for twenty years and have succeeded in achieving remarkable results in the fight against leukaemia in Bolivia. Over 1,699 children and 1,613 adults who had been diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukaemia and over […]

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Press Releases

3 December 2018

The Development Cooperation Agency contributes to fund humanitarian mine clearance projects

As part of Italy’s support to humanitarian mine clearance operations, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, provided funds to finance 12 mine clearance projects comprehensively worth more than 3.5 million euros. The operations – to be performed in cooperation with international organizations such as the United Nations Mine Action […]

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Press Releases

28 November 2018

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, visited the FAO headquarters in Rome, where she was received by Director-General Josè Graziano da Silva.

The meeting made an overview of the performance of the strategic partnership between Italy and FAO in achieving the common goal of promoting sustainable agriculture and food security, also in view of the effect that these can have on local conflicts and migration phenomena. The Deputy Minister and the Director-General agreed on the need for […]

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Press Releases

26 November 2018

La Farnesina dispone, in cooperazione con l’Aeronautica militare, un volo umanitario, per Niamey

Nel quadro del sostegno della Cooperazione italiana al settore sanitario in Niger, e in risposta ad una specifica richiesta di sostegno avanzata da Niamey per far fronte all’esaurimento delle scorte  di farmaci contro la meningite e il colera, la Vice Ministra agli Affari Esteri e alla Cooperazione Internazionale, Emanuela Del Re, ha disposto, in cooperazione con […]

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Press Releases

26 November 2018

Press release from the Foreign Ministry – Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, received at the Farnesina the European Commissioner of International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica. The meeting focused on reviewing Italy’s and the EU Commission’s common commitment towards sustainable development and the achievement of the “2030 Agenda”, recalling the centrality of the three Rome-based […]

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Press Releases

23 November 2018

​Deputy Minister Del Re meets Mami Mazutori

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, met today with Ms. Mami Mazutori, Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), on the sidelines of the 2018 European Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction.   At the meeting, Deputy Minister Del Re reaffirmed Italy’s keen attention for natural […]

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In detail

23 November 2018

​Procedure opened for the selection of innovative business initiatives to be admitted for co-financing

Please take note that the “Procedure opened for the selection of innovative business initiatives to be admitted for co-financing and to be implemented in the International Cooperation Partner Countries in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals” has been published on the Official Journal of the European Union, 2018/S 224-512905. The documentation is available on […]

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Press Releases

22 November 2018

Italy’s Cooperation service allocates emergency aid for Northern Syria

As part of Italy’s commitment to foster the Syrian population, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, has arranged for another package of emergency contributions worth 2.5 million euros to finance the humanitarian emergency situations in Northern Syria. Thanks to Italy’s emergency contribution of 1.5 million euros to the United […]

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Diplomatic Network

16 November 2018

Senegal, CinemArena to inform of the risks run by migrants

Throughout the month of October, the CinemArena campaign was promoted in more than 20 Senegalese villages originating large migration flows to inform a large population segment, and especially youth and the most vulnerable categories of people, on the risks of irregular migration. The campaign, financed by the Foreign Ministry through the Africa Fund 2018, was […]

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