Director

Luca Maestripieri is a new director of Italian Agency for Development Cooperation The Italian Council of Ministers has nominated Luca Maestripieri as new Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. His last role was vice director of the Development office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. In the same Directorate-General, since […]

Field offices

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation runs a network of 18 field offices for managing operations and initiatives in partner countries worldwide.

Partnerships

Profile and goals

profile AICS – the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation – is one of key innovations established by the Italian law on international cooperation (Law No. 125/2014). The Agency began operating in January 2016, with the aim of aligning Italy with its principal European and global partners in the endeavor of development. Its basic model reflects […]

Structure

The Italian cooperation system

Article 23 of Law 125/2014 introduces an important novelty: the Italian development cooperation system. The many and highly diverse public and private actors who are engaged in cooperation activities are called to work together and to promote coherent actions, with greater impact and efficiency. This means bringing together governmental bodies, universities, subjects involved in decentralised […]