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Cooperazione allo Sviluppo

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22 April 2014
Cooperation – Guatemala, Italy backs coffee growers

The Italian Cooperation is backing coffee growers in Guatemala through a multilateral emergency contribution of 200,000 USD for an urgent intervention by FAO in response to the emergency caused by a coffee plant fungus that is generating serious economic and food security consequences. Aid to 1200 growers in Huista region The project, already agreed on […]

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17 April 2014
ENEA-Italian Development Cooperation agreement – Goal: to strengthen collaboration in the fields of energy efficiency, renewables, environment and climate

The Director General for Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Giampaolo Cantini, and Giovanni Lelli, Commissioner at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), signed a Protocol of Understanding today, 17 April 2014, at the Ministry. The agreement is intended to strengthen and provide a framework for […]

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16 April 2014
Childhood in Senegal – Development Cooperation-UNICEF project “Combating trafficking and the worst forms of child labour”

Trafficking, child labour and sexual exploitation. Childhood in Senegal is often violated by these abuses, which Italy and UNICEF are fighting with a prevention, recovery and protection project. February 2014 saw the end of stage 2 of the project: “Combating trafficking and the worst forms of child labour”. The initiative was funded by Italian Development […]

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14 April 2014
Italy-Somalia: Giro-Osman Jawari meeting

Under-Secretary Mario Giro met the Speaker of the Somali Parliament, Mohamed Osman Jawari, at the Farnesina today for discussions that included the AMISOM Mission, the political and stabilisation processes, and development cooperation. AMISOM Mission and political process The meeting was a valuable opportunity to exchange information and views on the situation in Somalia with respect […]

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14 April 2014
Syria: Farnesina makes multilateral emergency contribution to OCHA

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will make a multilateral emergency contribution of 200,000 euro to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for a programme aimed at the satellite monitoring of Syria that will allow the UN to monitor compliance with the obligations set out in Security Council resolution no. 2139 on access […]

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10 April 2014
Italy-Angola – Pistelli, partner-building initiatives

Within the context of “excellent bilateral relations” and the solid “economic partnership” underscored by Minister Federica Mogherini in a message, “let’s make the best of what we have available, in such a way that the great leap forward in all sectors of the Angolan economy can also be said to stem from Italian expertise”, asserted […]

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9 April 2014
Somalia – Italy committed to health

Italy is heavily committed in Somalia, especially in the healthcare sector, and for World Health Day organised the presentation of a documentary filmed in Mogadishu by RAI correspondent Enzo Nucci and an exhibition by artist Massimo Grimaldi of photos taken in the ‘Mohamed Aden Sheikh’ Children Teaching Hospital (Mas Cth) in Harghesia, the capital of […]

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7 April 2014
Central African Republic: Cooperation dispatches humanitarian aid

A flight will be dispatched tomorrow from the Orio al Serio Airport (Bergamo) to the Central African Republic by the Italian Cooperation, carrying aid to the population severely affected by the crisis under way. Responding to an appeal by Italian volunteer associations, the Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will […]

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7 April 2014
Lebanon: record refugees, resources at risk – Italy’s contribution to stability and security

According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres, the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surpassed the one million mark. These in addition to the over one and a half million living in Syria’s neighbouring countries and the approximately 6.5 million internally displaced persons. “A disastrous record”, the Commissioner added, “aggravated by […]

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4 April 2014
International Day of Mine Awareness: Women in Action

At the Holy Spirit Hospital in Makeni, the biggest city in Sierra Leone’s northern province, Italian Development Cooperation is working to improve the health of the inhabitants of Bombali district. And that work includes providing surgical treatment for mine victims. From Africa to Asia: Italian Development Cooperation at work From Africa to Asia, Italian Development […]

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4 April 2014
Cooperazione italiana – 200mila euro a Oms per Ebola (in translation)

Di fronte all’epidemia di Ebola che ha colpito la Guinea e minaccia i paesi circostanti, la Cooperazione italiana ha deciso di intervenire con un contributo di 200mila euro a favore del piano di risposta varato dall’Organizzazione mondiale della Sanita’ (Oms). Grazie ai fondi raccolti, l’organizzazione internazionale effettuera’, insieme al ministero della Salute guineano, attivita’ di […]

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4 April 2014
Sudan: EU and Italy together to boost health services

The European Union and Italy are working together to boost health services in Sudan. “Promoting Qualitative Health Services in Eastern Sudan”, a 12.9 million euro health programme funded by Brussels and run by Italy, opened recently. Designed to improve access to and the quality of services and treatment for the people of three states, Kassala, […]

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