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Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

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25 June 2013
Africa: 1.5 million euros from Italy for women and young people

Italian Development Cooperation is supporting women and young people in Kenya and South Sudan’s most marginalised regions. They will be the beneficiaries of the new development project worth 1.5 million euros as part of an agreement signed in Rome by the Director General for Development Cooperation, Giampaolo Cantini, and his colleague from the United Nations […]

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24 June 2013
Syria – Bonino at Foreign Affairs Council – “Political solution the only way”. Visit to Jordan for refugee emergency

“The only solution to the Syrian crisis is the political solution”, as Foreign Minister Emma Bonino underscored at the end of the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg. The “Geneva 2” peace conference is the only way, as the Minister reiterated at the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Doha on Saturday 22 June. And the conference […]

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24 June 2013
RUSSIA – Dassù presenta l’Expo di Milano (in translation)

Un’ Expo “di nuovo genere”, con al centro un tema come la sicurezza alimentare, cruciale per lo sviluppo sostenibile, e con grande attenzione al ruolo delle donne: cosi’ il viceministro Marta Dassu’ ha presentato al Forum economico internazionale di San Pietroburgo la prossima esposizione di Milano 2015. Un’expo di nuovo genere “Prima di tutto ho ringraziato la […]

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24 June 2013
GUATEMALA – A docufilm in Turin on youth orchestras

The youth orchestras of Guatemala take centre stage in the docufilm “Cuento Musical”, which was screened on Friday at Turin’s Auditorium Quazza – Palazzo Nuovo. The main thrust of the film, directed by Stefano Scialotti and sponsored by the Guatemala City government with the support of the Italian Cooperation and the UNDP, is the use […]

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21 June 2013
LEBANON – Italy helps Syrian refugee children

Italy is actively helping Syrian refugee children in Lebanon within the context of the Mosaic Programme financed by the Italian Cooperation and carried out by the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs and two researchers from the Research Unit on Resilience of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. The intention is to give […]

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Press Releases
19 June 2013
SYRIA: Minister Bonino approves a series of humanitarian actions to ensure immediate assistance to Syrian refugees in nearby countries

In response to the dramatic consequences of the Syrian conflict on the civilian population, Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino approved a series of humanitarian actions aimed at boosting the programme of Italian interventions in the region to ensure immediate assistance to Syrian refugees in nearby countries. In particular, given the minister’s imminent visit to […]

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Press Releases
19 June 2013
Deputy Minister Pistelli meets with Togo President

The crisis in Mali, terrorist infiltration, cross-border crime and, more in general, the political and financial situation in Western Africa were the main topics of discussion in Deputy Minister Lapo Pistelli’s meeting in Rome today with the President of Togo, Faure Essoziman Gnassinbé. Expressing his deep concern over the proliferation of terrorist cells in the […]

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11 June 2013
Developing the Future – Making technology work for Development Cooperation

Democratisation, crisis management, environmental protection “The opportunities opened up by information and communication technology (ICT) extend to the various spheres of Development Cooperation activity, including democratisation, crisis management, environmental protection, public health, combating poverty and protecting human rights. The system that enables vaccine reminders by phone, the application for reporting violence, the priority and personnel […]

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31 May 2013
Deputy Minister Pistelli completes mission to Ethiopia

In the course of a mission to Ethiopia, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Lapo Pistelli, accompanied by Director General for Development Cooperation Giampaolo Cantini, Ambassador of Italy to Addis Ababa Renzo Rosso and Director of the Local Technical Unit Fabio Melloni, made a visit today to the St. Luke Hospital of Wolisso, in the Oromia […]

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30 May 2013
Italy-Ethiopia: Pistelli, cooperation funds doubled

“In times of crisis and cutbacks we have been able to double aid to Ethiopia from the €48 million of 2009-2011 to €98.9 million for 2013-2015. An important contribution aimed at developing the area, with a special focus on mother/child healthcare, which is also an acknowledgement of Ethiopia’s role as our partner in regional stabilisation”. […]

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29 May 2013
LEBANON – Development cooperation initiative in Al-Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve

Italian Development Cooperation is engaged in a new project in Lebanon, with Sunday 2 June 2013 seeing the opening of the Roman Oak pathway in the Al-Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve, in the Bekaa region. The initiative, which aims to help the local population and involve local municipalities, is part of a broader programme funded and […]

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