Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

Press Releases

6 September 2018

Third annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee

The third annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee was held at the Farnesina today. The meeting was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and chaired by the Deputy Foreign Minister with a portfolio for cooperation, Emanuela Del Re. The Committee was called to decide on the […]

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3 September 2018

Italy takes part in Berlin conference on Lake Chad Region

Italy is attending the Berlin Conference, on 3 and 4 September, on the Lake Chad crisis where the water, has shrunk 90% over the last few years and whose shores are experiencing a resurgence of the violent extremism of Boko Haram. Italy will confirm the allocation of 15 million euros in 2019 for emergency measures and […]

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Diplomatic Network

21 August 2018

Ethiopia, the Foreign Ministry allocates 500,000 euros for assistance to displaced persons

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in close coordination with the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, has allocated a 500,000-euro financial contribution to tackle the humanitarian crisis in the regions of Gedeo and West Guji, in Ethiopia. The contribution will mainly be used to provide emergency shelters as well as relief material and support to mobile […]

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Diplomatic Network

2 August 2018

Lebanon: concert in the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbeck

​The Temple of Bacchus in the heart of Baalbek, one of the most important, well-preserved archaeological sites in the Middle East, acted as backdrop to a concert organised as part of the Rossini year celebrations in Lebanon by the Embassy of Italy and the Cultural Institute. The concert forms part of the Baalbeck International Festival […]

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Press Releases

30 July 2018

The Italian Cooperation service arranges to help Niger

In order to tackle a cholera epidemic, at the request of Niger’s authorities, the Foreign Ministry has arranged to help the population of Niger through its Development Cooperation network by sending off an Air Force flight from Pisa today. The flight, which was organised through the cooperation with the United Nations humanitarian response depot (UNHRD) […]

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Diplomatic Network

16 July 2018

Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

By midnight, Khurshid, 35, was in serious trouble. Five months pregnant and bleeding heavily, she had passed out at home. Her family carried her unconscious body to the nearest – and only – health station in Afghanistan’s remote, mountainous Chesht-e Sharif District. “Her state shocked me, but I knew quickly that it was a miscarriage,” […]

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Diplomatic Network

11 July 2018

Partnership agreement signed to promote sustainable agriculture

A partnership agreement was signed promoting sustainable agriculture to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) recently partnered with the FAO and with three of the major public research agencies in Italy: the National Research Council (CNR); the Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economics Analysis (CREA); and […]

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Press Releases

5 July 2018

Undersecretary Emanuela Del Re meets the “Vento di Terra” Association

Undersecretary Emanuela Del Re received a delegation from the “Vento di Terra” Association and the Change.org platform who submitted a 400,000 name petition against the demolition of the so-called “Rubber Tyre School” in Khan Al Ahmar village on the West Bank. It had been financed by the Italian Development Cooperation and built by Vento di […]

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Diplomatic Network

2 July 2018

Italian Embassy in Sudan launches the initiative Ape Felice

On the occasion of the Italian National Day’s Celebrations, the Italian Embassy in Sudan has launched a new initiative of solidarity entitled “Ape Felice”. Recently acquired in Khartoum, a three-wheeled Ape City for people transport, produced by the Italian company Piaggio (the firm is in a phase of advanced negotiation in order to finalize a […]

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Press Releases

28 June 2018

Humanitarian flight for Niger

In response to an appeal by the Niger authorities, and following the operations carried out on 24 April and 25 May, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation organised a third humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation Service for Niger. The Air Force flight took off from Pisa and headed to Niamey, carrying hard-to-find […]

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Diplomatic Network

27 June 2018

Mission for the Special Envoy for the Caribbean Countries

Roberto Natali, the Special Envoy for the Caribbean countries of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), went on a new mission which included meetings in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia. In Barbados Mr Natali also met the President of the Caribbean Development Bank.  […]

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Press Releases

21 June 2018

The Italian Cooperation Agency makes an emergency contribution for Guatemala

In order to tackle the humanitarian crisis provoked by the eruption of the Volcano del Fuego in Guatemala, the Italian Cooperation Agency has provided to make a multilateral emergency financing of 200,000 euros. This contribution responds to the appeal launched by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which is engaged […]

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