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“New discipline for
the Italian cooperation with developing countries” (abstract)
In the article 1 the law reassumes
the objectives of the Italian development cooperation:
Art.1 (Objectives)
1.
The development cooperation is an
integral part of the Italian foreign policy and pursues the objectives
of solidarity among people and of a complete realization of the basic
rights of man, being inspired by the principles confirmed by the United
Nation and the agreements CEE-ACP.
2.
It aims at satisfying the primary
needs and, in the first place, at safeguarding human life,
self-sufficiency maintenance, at optimizing of human resources, at
safeguarding the environmental heritage, at carrying out and at
strengthening the processes of endogenous development and the economic,
social and cultural growth of developing countries. Development
cooperation must also aims at improving genre and childhood condition.
3.
It comprises public and private
enterprises, formulated and carried out in the ways provided for in law
and set up in the framework of plurisectorial programmes agreed during
specific intergovernmental meetings with recipient countries on a
plurennial base and in accordance with the criteria of geographic
concentration.
4.
Extraordinary interventions devoted
at facing catastrophes and situations of malnutrition and sanitary
deficiencies, threatening the survival of populations, are included
among the development cooperation.
5.
Allocations for the development
cooperation cannot be, directly or indirectly, used for financing
military activities.
Furthermore is it possible to add, in
brief, that the activity of cooperation involves:
a.
The formulation of studies, the
planning, supply and construction of plants, infrastructures, equipments
and services, the execution of projects of integrated development and
the implementation of initiatives of financial nature, capable of
favouring the achievement of the objectives described in the article 1;
b.
The sharing, also financial, in the
activities and capital of institutions, banks and international funds,
involved in the cooperation with developing countries, as well as in the
activity of developing cooperation of the European Economic Community,
c.
The use of skilled
workers
for duties of technical assistance, administration management,
evaluation and monitoring of the activity of development cooperation;
d.
vocational training and social
development of citizens of developing countries in loco, in different
developing countries and in Italy and the training of Italian staff for
carrying on activities of developing cooperation;
e.
sustain of the implementation of
projects and interventions carried out by suitable NGOs, even trough the
envoy of volunteers and of its own staff in developing countries;
f.
the implementation of specific
interventions in order to improve genre and childhood conditions, the
cultural and social development of woman through her direct
participation;
g.
the implementation of programmes of
agricultural conversion in order to hamper the production of drug in
developing countries;
h.
the promotion of programmes of
education to the topics of development, also within schools, and of
initiatives devoted to the intensification of cultural exchange between
Italy and developing countries, with particular reference to those among
young;
i.
the realization of interventions on
scientific and technologic research in order to transfer suitable
technologies to developing countries;
j.
the implementation of tools and
interventions, also financial tools, in order to support exchanges among
developing countries, stabilize regional and internal markets and
relieve the debt, in accordance with the programmes and the action of
the European Community;
k.
sustain programmes of information and
communication supporting a wider participation of people to the
processes of democratization and development of recipient countries.
If you wish to examine the unabridged
text of the law, please look for Quadro Normativo e linee-guida on
the web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at:
http://www.esteri.it/polestera/cooperaz/index.htm |
