On 15-17 May 2019, the first expo of International cooperation took place at Fiera di Roma, in Rome. Admasu Nebebe, State Minister at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation of Ethiopia, talked about the investment opportunities in Ethiopia in the panel on “Country Focus: Sustainable Development Investments and Opportunities”.

On 5-11 May 2019, an Ethiopian High Level Delegation went to Emilia-Romagna (Italy) on a field mission organized by UNIDO, FAO, AICS Addis Ababa in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Embassy of Italy in Ethiopia. The mission was hosted by the Emilia-Romagna regional Government and […]

On 13 May 2019 the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation – Addis Ababa Office inaugurated the common production line for footwear of EIFCCOS – one of the six successful cluster model in Ethiopia which has benefitted of the support of the project ‘Phase 2 of the Technical Assistance for the Up-Grading of the Ethiopian Leather […]

On 2-6 May 2019 two Members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Yana Chiara Ehm, and Simona Suriano, and the member of the Italian Senate Alessandro Alfieri visited Ethiopia on an advocacy mission organized by AIDOS for the next replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to which Italy is the […]

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation – Addis Ababa Office handed over laboratory equipment worth 70,000 Euro to the Ethiopian Public Health Institute on 2 April. The laboratory equipment, one amino acid analyzer and one fat analyzer, was purchased by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) through the financial support of the Italian Government, […]

AICS reaffirms its commitment to support South-Sudanese refugees as well as hosting communities in Gambella. On 4 March 2019, the ceremony for the delivery of educational materials to the Don Bosco Centre took place in Gambella at the presence of the Head of the Addis Ababa Office, Tiberio Chiari. The following materials were donated by […]

On 4th March we inaugurated the water scheme of Adfera, a town of 7200 inhabitants, in the Afar Region. The infrastructure was made by UNICEF thanks to the contribution of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation in collaboration with the German Cooperation (GIZ) and the local Ethiopian authorities. It will allow the citizens and the […]

On 6-7 February 2019, the Head of the Addis Ababa Office of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Mr. Tiberio Chiari, travelled to the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNP) of Ethiopia to engage with the implementing partners and meet the beneficiaries of the project “Community Health Education, Capacity & Knowledge building” (CHECK). The […]

The Italian Government has granted one million Euros to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in support of the protection and assistance needs of ethnic Afar Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia. The funds, made available through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation will be utilized to improve the living conditions of Eritrean Refugees and […]

STORIES OF PEOPLE: DIGNITY AND RIGHTS BEYOND BORDERS is a storytelling project collecting experiences and voices of beneficiaries of AICS Regional initiative in support of South-Sudanese refuges, IDPs and hosting communities in South-Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda. The programme implemented a total of ten projects from August 2017 to July 2018, supporting internally displaced people, refugees, and […]