Agenzia italiana per la cooperazione allo sviluppo
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| State level | National institution | ||
| Position of the authority | Development aid organization | ||
| legal form | Institute of public right | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Italy) | ||
| Consist | legally since 2014, active since 2016 | ||
| Arose from | Direzione generale per la cooperazione allo sviluppo | ||
| Immediately beforehand | Dipartimento per la cooperazione allo sviluppo | ||
| Headquarters | Rome , Via S. Contarini (at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) | ||
| Authority management | Luca Maestripieri | ||
| Website | aics.gov.it | ||
The Agenzia italiana per la cooperazione allo sviluppo (AICS) (German: "Italian Agency for Development Cooperation") is an Italian government organization for development cooperation within the portfolio of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation . It is an administratively independent body under public law with its headquarters in Rome , which is supervised by the ministerial department for development cooperation .
organization
The political guidelines for development cooperation are set by the government in a three-year program after consulting the relevant parliamentary bodies. Political planning and coordination tasks are taken on by the Interministerial Committee for Development Cooperation, chaired by the Prime Minister. Political responsibility for development cooperation rests with the Foreign Minister, who is supported by a Deputy Minister for Development Cooperation and an advisory board for the associated tasks. The ministerial department for development cooperation is responsible for the supervision of the activities of the AICS, which is also responsible for the coordination of the cooperation with other, also private (possibly state-sponsored) organizations and takes over the international political representation.
The Director of AICS is appointed by the Prime Minister on the proposal of the Foreign Minister for a term of four years; a one-off reappointment is possible. Candidates must demonstrate qualifications and experience in the field of development cooperation. He has two deputy directors at his side, each responsible for the operational and support areas. The AICS headquarters are in Rome. It has eleven units (as of 2020), one of which is located at the second headquarters in Florence ( ⊙ ) and is responsible for rural development and nutrition. Abroad, the AICS has 20 regional branches, including three in Latin America, nine in Africa, seven in Asia and one in Europe (as of 2020). They are usually active in several states in their respective regions.
The AICS offers financial aid instruments in cooperation with the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, among others .
The development cooperation of the AICS is essentially based on the 17 goals for sustainable development (Agenda 2030) of the United Nations .
history
State development aid projects were carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself with its own human and material resources until 2014. For this purpose, there was a separate organizational unit called Dipartimento per la cooperazione allo sviluppo since 1979 , which after a reform in 1987 was called Direzione generale per la cooperazione allo sviluppo and was thus one of other general directorates or departments of the ministry. The operational activity was directed by the central office Unità tecnica centrale (UTC), which overseas the local Unità tecniche locali (UTL) or "local technical units", which mostly had smaller cross-border branches. The UTL and its branch offices were under the supervision of the Italian embassies and were often housed with them. With Act No. 125/2014, development aid was outsourced from the Ministry to the AICS public law institution; the outsourcing and setup process lasted until the beginning of 2016.
In the course of the establishment of the AICS, the Florence-based agricultural research institute Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was legally dissolved and materially incorporated into the new agency for development cooperation, which now has a second headquarters in addition to its headquarters in Rome. The institute was founded in Florence in 1904 as the Istituto agricolo coloniale italiano to deal with agriculture in the Italian colonies , especially in the tropics , and to design agricultural development and training projects. From 1938 to 1959 it was called Istituto agronomico per l'Africa italiana , after which the colonies or Italian Africa were replaced with the name “Übersee” (oltremare) . After the Second World War, it supported the Italian trust territory of Somalia and, above all, Italian farmers who emigrated to Latin America; later it was also active in the field of agricultural development cooperation in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe on behalf of the Department for Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In Florence it had, among other things, an important specialist library and an archive, which today belong to the AICS. It published the journal The Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 2014 reform of development cooperation
- ↑ Law 125/2014 on normattiva.it
- ↑ Regional AICS branches abroad
- ^ Communication from the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti of July 15, 2016
- ↑ Law No. 38/1979 on normattiva.it
- ↑ Law No. 49/1987 on esteri.it
- ^ Document from the Embassy in Tunis on the organizational history of Italian development aid before 2014
- ^ History of the Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare on aics.gov.it
- ↑ Renaming with Law No. 404/1959 (and not 1953 as can be read in some sources)
- ↑ legal basis from 1962 to esteri.it
- ↑ Details on europub.co.uk
Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 36.5 ″ E