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Italy's Official Development Assistance, please click here.   

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  The Directorate General for Development Co-operation (DGCS) within the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for bi- and multilateral development cooperation activities.

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  Development priorities:  <back to top>
  Italian development policy and strategy follow the Millenium Development Goals with their principle goal of poverty alleviation. Italian development cooperation especially focuses on the following issues: basic needs, safeguarding human life, food self-sufficiency, enhancing human resources, environment conservation and self-reliance, social and cultural development, the improvement of women's living conditions.

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  Priority sectors:  <back to top>
  The priority sectors of Italian development cooperation are good governance, economic development, health and social services, education and vocational education and training, and infrastructure for sustainable management of natural resources. Gender equality and child protection are considered cross-cutting issues of development programmes.

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  Donors' Approaches:  <back to top>
  All projects and programmes are defined by the following characteristics: area-based interventions, central and local counterparts, participatory planning mechanisms.

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  TVET:  <back to top>
  TVET is one of the priority sectors of Italian cooperation.

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  Technical assistance:  <back to top>
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  Submission:  <back to top>
  The Central Technical Unit (UTC) of DGCS provides technical advice in Project Cycle Management. Especially, UTC is responsible for the identification, formulation, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes.

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Policy documents can be found on this Webpage: http://www.esteri.it > Foreign Policy > Development Cooperation > Documenti (most documents in Italian); case studies of development activities can be accessed here: http://www.esteri.it > Foreign Policy > Development Cooperation > Pubblicazioni (publications in English).


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  Contact:  <back to top>
 
Name Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Ministero degli Affari Esteri
Street Address   Piazzale della Farnesina, 1
00194 Roma
Phone [+39] (06) 36911
Website (languages) http://www.esteri.it > Foreign Policy > Development Cooperation (Information on the Web pages concerning development cooperation in Italian, documents in English and Italian)


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  Footnotes:  <back to top>
 

  Information concerning the section on Italian Cooperation taken from the following sources:
Italian Cooperation Office in Beijing, http://www.sinoitaliancoop.org/main.htm#4, access: 03 November 2003;
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Development cooperation, http://www.esteri.it > Foreign Policy > Development Cooperation, access: 03 November 2003.

 
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