The Italian Cooperation System Mission in West Africa continues and will then materialize with an area meeting of the Ambassadors and Directors of the offices of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) in West Africa, scheduled for Abidjan in Ivory Coast on 4 and 5 May and focused on the prospects for strengthening Italian action within the framework of the Mattei Plan.
During the stop in Ghana, the delegation led by the Director General for Development Cooperation of the MAECI, Stefano Gatti, together with the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Marco Riccardo Rusconi, met the Minister of Education Hon. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Communications and Digitalisation Hon. Ursula Owusu Ekuful and Deputy Finance Minister Stephen Amoah.
The Italian Cooperation has been intervening since 2004 with a credit program aimed at supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, the “Ghana Private Sector Development Facility“, also offering technical assistance with a view to improving the trend towards internationalization, and capacity activities building in favor of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Finance of Ghana.
With the opening of the AICS Office in Accra in 2021, the Italian Cooperation intends to continue to intervene in the field of job creation and, at the same time, extend its program to those sectors considered priorities by the AICS Office in Ouagadougou, namely development rural and healthcare, with a transversal approach to the issues of gender, disability and environmental protection.
