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Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

Press Releases
4 September 2015
Syrian Crisis. Humanitarian intervention by the Italian Cooperation

Italy has approved a one-million-EUR emergency contribution for humanitarian interventions in Syria. The contribution falls within the overall 18-million-EURO  response to the Syrian crisis Italy announced for 2015. The funds will be used to sustain a World Food Program project entitled “Emergency Food Assistance to People Affected by Unrest in Syria” within the framework of […]

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4 September 2015
Udine and Farnesina – Donate laboratory to Kurdistan museum

The University of Udine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs donated the Iraqi Kurdistan Dohuk museum’s first archaeological restoration laboratory within the framework of the “Terra di Ninive” training project funded by the Task Force Iraq of the Farnesina and conducted by the University of Udine under the direction of Daniele Morandi Bonacossi. Read more, […]

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3 September 2015
Dar Es Salaam – Italian mobile medical unit opens in Tanzania

Italy is working on behalf of women in Tanzania, where a specialised mobile unit equipped to perform mammograms was donated by the Italian non-profit association Ruvuma to the S. Maria Nascente of Mbweni, run by Indian nuns of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate (DMI). The goal is to promote the prevention of tumours of the […]

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Press Releases
27 August 2015
Refugee emergency in Serbia: intervention by Italian Development Cooperation

Italy is responding to the appeal by the Serbian authorities, who are faced with a significant influx of refugees arriving from the Middle East and heading for northern Europe. Italian Development Cooperation has arranged funding of 100,000 euro for the Serbian Red Cross for initial assistance activities. The Italian funding is channelled through the International […]

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25 August 2015
Italy-Afghanistan – work on Herat bypass starting soon

Afghan infrastructure will benefit from a new Italian input thanks to the efforts of the Farnesina. A contract was signed today by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Works and the company that won the tender to build the first lot (20.4 kilometres) of the Herat bypass. funded by Italy, the project is of strategic importance to […]

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11 August 2015
Cooperation – 500,000 euro for war victims in Sudan

A new initiative by Italian Development Cooperation to protect the human rights of victims of war and violence in the states of Darfur, Blue Nile and Kordofan in Sudan. The Directorate General has approved a voluntary emergency donation worth 500,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). “Sudan Revised Emergency Appeal 2015” The […]

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Press Releases
7 August 2015
Myanmar: Emergency funding to IFRC for the flood victims

Italian cooperation has decided to donate emergency funding of 250,000 euro in response to the Myanmar government’s request for help to tackle the damage caused by cyclone Komen. The Italian funding will provide support for initial emergency response activities by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in collaboration with the […]

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7 August 2015
#Farnesina – Diplomacy, heritage protection increasingly critical to humanity

The systematic destruction by Isis of humankind’s archaeological and cultural legacy foregrounds how its defence and continuing protection has increasingly become a central global issue. This not least because dialogue between cultures is one of the most potent forms of diplomacy and because “cultural channels are the only ones in moments of difficulty that allow for […]

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Press Releases
30 July 2015
Statute of Italian Development Cooperation Agency

The statute governing the Italian Development Cooperation Agency was published today in the Official Journal. Publication marks a key stage in Italy’s Development Cooperation reform, which was launched in August 2014 with the approval of Law 125/2014. The publication of the statute “confirms the strong sense of commitment with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

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Press Releases
24 July 2015
An increasingly integrated approach in responding to emergencies due to natural disaster and protecting Italian nationals in emergency situations abroad

Collaboration between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Civil Protection was the subject of two accords signed today by MFAIC Secretary General Michele Valensise and Head of the Department Fabrizio Curcio at the Farnesina. “The two accords create the conditions making for a leap in quality in an already solid relationship between […]

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23 July 2015
Iraq – Cooperation: one million EUR for food assistance interventions

The Directorate General for Cooperation Development approved a one-million EUR voluntary emergency contribution to support food assistance interventions on behalf of the Iraqi population left vulnerable by the crisis in that country. “Emergency Assistance to Populations affected by the Iraq crisis” Italy’s contribution is earmarked for the activities included in the project known as “Emergency […]

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22 July 2015
Lima – A book about the future of the Bosque de Pómac

The Italo-Peruvian Fund (FIP) and the Italian Cultural Institute of Lima presented the book “Herencia Muchik en el Bosque de Pomac” on 22 July, with the participation of its editors Antonio Aimi and Emilia Perassi. The book is a collection of research carried out in the context of the 2010-2013 Propomac project, the purpose of […]

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