The monitoring mission of the Director of the AICS Bogota office, Mario Beccia, and the Head of the technical area, Luca De Paoli, on some of the projects ongoing in Colombia, has been joined by a delegation from the Communication Office of AICS Rome and by a film crew to ensure a full visibility of the Agency’s work in Colombia with shootings and interviews with members and beneficiaries.
The project of the Communication Office of AICS Rome aims to create an advertising spot that will be broadcast on national channels, an institutional video and six clips focused on the different local realities of some of the Agency’s foreign offices.
These audiovisual products will give the opportunity to the Italian public to know the activities managed by the Italian Cooperation abroad, enhancing the vision of an Agency moved by the motto “Creators of Development“.
The mission started with a meeting with the Italian Ambassador to Colombia Giancarlo Maria Curcio and the Director of the AICS Bogota headquarters, focused on the importance of the work conducted by the Italian System, especially on the areas of culture and innovation.
The mission continued in Leticia in the Amazonas with a visit to one of the projects of the Delegated Cooperation Program DRET II (Rural Development with Territorial Approach), co-financed by the European Union, AICS and FAO in San Martín de Amacayacu, an indigenous village within one of Colombia’s natural parks. The project involves the conservation of the communities’ ancestral knowledge and the preservation of biodiversity. The visit was an opportunity to get to know the indigenous community of the project and enhance the work carried out and the experiences of the beneficiaries through video footage and interviews.
During the monitoring, the mission has been the opportunity for a meeting between the Director Mario Beccia, the new mayor of Leticia, Elquin Jadrian Uní Heredia, and the Secretary of Planning and Territorial Development of the Gobernación of the Amazonas César Chávez Parra, to discuss new initiatives of Italian cooperation aimed to promote sustainable urban development and environmental protection.
The next step of the mission followed in Santa Marta with the field visit of the project A.L.M.A.S, managed by the Italian SCO CESVI, aimed to improve the access of Venezuelan migrant women to entrepreneurship and work through training courses and workshops.
“Thanks to the support of the Italian Agency of Cooperation for Development and Cesvi, we have been able to start again,” the words of some of the women interviewed.
The last day was in Sasaima, in Cundinamarca Department, with a visit of one of the companies financed for the project Juventudes: El Campo en Movimiento, dedicated to strengthening the businesses of young people in rural areas and community training to impact the formulation of public youth policies.
“The mission of the Communication Office delegation was an opportunity to meet the new institutions and local governments of the territories in which we have ongoing projects and to strengthen the coordination between the Agency, civil society and our implementing partners. In Leticia, the conservation of the Amazon jungle is one of the priority themes of Italian cooperation in Colombia, and this mission reaffirms Italy’s commitment towards the sustainable future of the city, symbol of the tripartite border between Colombia, Brazil and Peru, always within the framework of a model of cooperation made with the people and for the people”, are the words of Mario Beccia, Director of the AICS Bogota Office.
