On September 10, AVSI was invited to a hearing at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies to give our opinion on the second report of the Mattei Plan.
The Mattei Plan is beginning to take shape and gain recognition in the field, with major projects underway, such as ours in Côte d’Ivoire (a €10 million project, in 800 schools across 20 regions of the country, reaching around 200,000 children and 500 teachers).
It is being carried out in agreement with the Ivorian Ministry of Education, which is working on a reform of the school system, partly inspired by this initiative.
Italy is proposing, through this plan, an innovative way of building partnerships with Africa. We are seeing great curiosity and interest from African countries—they want to be part of it.
But there's still work to be done, as we emphasized, drawing attention to certain critical issues and offering potential recommendations based on our work.
Watch the hearing (in Italian) min 25.25
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