CISP - Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli

Founded in Rome in 1983, today CISP (The International Committee for the Development of Peoples) is active in over 30 countries worldwide in Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The head office is located in Rome, with regional offices throughout Italy and worldwide. In the last 24 years we have carried out over 600 projects in 38 different countries, reaching millions of people.
Poverty eradication, improving the necessary conditions for development, building paths towards rehabilitation, and providing help in emergency situations are our core objectives. We believe that cooperation is based on a close collaboration with local partners and on improvements to the resources of developing countries. It is for this reason that our stand on cooperation and, in particular, our idea of sustainable projects, are based on factors such as working directly with local populations, strengthening organizations in the developing world, and improving local human resources.
CISP's priorities in the field of cooperation are the fight against poverty, rural development, food security (agriculture, fishery, aquaculture and small scale breeding), rural and urban health, education and training, management of natural resources, environmental protection, sustaining peace initiatives, and micro-credit and support of commercial enterprise. Furthermore, in the field of emergency and humanitarian aid, CISP's activities aim at focusing attention on refugee communities, returnees and displaced people, promoting health services, and defining and implementing disaster preparedness plans.
In Italy, we actively engage in information campaigns, higher education programmes, development and intercultural education programmes, promotion of international solidarity, and fight against social exclusion.
Since 1994, CISP has been working in Namibia on various projects promoting, directly or indirectly, small and medium enterprises. In particular, CISP works towards: promoting training opportunities for young disadvantaged communities; supporting female-run enterprises through the creation of a south/south network; the enhancement of training and educational system; improving the cooperation between business enterprises in the fight against HIV / AIDS.