{"id":16496,"date":"2013-06-28T17:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/06\/20130628_cooperazione_60_mln_interventi_africa_asia-2\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:09:38","slug":"20130628_cooperazione_60_mln_interventi_africa_asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/06\/20130628_cooperazione_60_mln_interventi_africa_asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation: \u20ac60 million for projects in Africa and Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>At a meeting chaired by Deputy Foreign Minister with the remit for International Cooperation, Lapo Pistelli, announced the Italian Cooperation\u2019s decision to put a total of\u00a0 \u20ac60 million toward health, education and infrastructure projects in Africa and Asia. He also spoke of innovative financing instruments for cooperation.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Pistelli, Cooperation changes gear and considers new forms of partnership<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cWe are promoting agricultural development in Ethiopia, and we have given \u20ac5 million to consolidate Afghan institutions and \u20ac3 million to Mozambique for education\u201d, Pistelli explained, illustrating the most important initiatives launched and adding that \u201cthe Italian Cooperation is changing gear and considering innovative forms of partnership and financing such as matching and blending, instruments known and used for some time now by international organisations and our European partners but that we have lagged behind on\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Somalia, Mozambique, Eritrea, Lebanon and Afghanistan among recipients<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The recipients of the \u20ac28 million in donations and \u20ac32 million in assistance loans include Somalia, Mozambique, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Lebanon, North Korea and Myanmar. \u201cA review is under way, during which we are going to have to select clearer criteria for identifying priority countries through deeper political analysis within a broader cooperation policy strategy\u201d, the Deputy Minister added, underscoring that precisely this \u201cwill be the topic of the next Steering Committee meeting planned for September\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a meeting chaired by Deputy Foreign Minister with the remit for International Cooperation, Lapo Pistelli, announced the Italian Cooperation\u2019s decision to put a total of\u00a0 \u20ac60 million toward health, education and infrastructure projects in Africa and Asia. He also spoke of innovative financing instruments for cooperation. Pistelli, Cooperation changes gear and considers new forms [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,45,29,6],"class_list":["post-16496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}