ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The third annual report on the implementation of the Mattei Plan for Africa, updated on 30 June 2026 and adopted by the Cabina di regia in its sixth meeting, held on 26 June at Palazzo Chigi. The document was sent to the Chambers pursuant to Article 5(3) of Law 24 January 2024, n. 2. It makes it known Palazzo Chigi. “Today the Mattei Plan – recognized as a European and international initiative – is a fully operational strategy that is producing tangible results – says President Council, Giorgia Meloni – Together with our African partners we have started more than 70 projects in these years, thanks to a solid financial architecture that is mobilizing public and private resources. Italy will continue to work in this direction, to consolidate this perspective and to give more and more strength to the model of cooperation we have in mind: a peer-to-face cooperation, based on respect, mutual trust, shared development”.
The Piano Mattei, we read in the note of Palazzo Chigi, is confirmed “fully operational, with a consolidated financial architecture and a network of international collaborations in constant expansion”. Between the numbers of the Report: 18 Nations partner, from 9 pilots of January 2024 to 14 of January 2025, until 18 of the current perimeter, expanded in March 2026 with the entry of Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Zambia; 5.5 billion euros the initial endowment of the Mattei Plan; 2 Vertici Italia-Africa: Rome (January 2024) and, for the first time in the history of the conference, in African territory to Addis Abeba (13 February 2026), with 35 delegations at the level of Heads of State and Government; 76 projects in progress; about 1.2 billion euros deliberated by the Technical Committee of the Italian Fund for Climate for 15 interventions in Africa, of which 936.7 million in the only year under consideration from the Report (July 2025 billion).
The Report continues the note, “retracing the Plan along its six guidelines of intervention – water, agriculture, energy, physical and digital infrastructure, education, training and culture, health with human capital at the centre and with a strengthening in the course of the year in the field of digital and artificial intelligence”. Among the results also “the international recognition of the Plan, the ever greater connection with the Global Gateway of the European Union and the strengthening of financial architecture, built around the collaboration with the main international institutions”: the framework agreement with the World Bank, the partnership with the African Development Bank under the Mattei Plan-Rome ProcessAD Financing Facility, the guarantees of the European Commission TERRA and African RISE, the synergies with UNFDP, IFC, IFC The document also emphasizes the dimension of “Sistema Italia” which characterizes the Plan, with the coordinated involvement of Ministries, national financial institutions (CDP, SACE, SIMEST), Regions, local authorities, university world, third sector and African diaspora in Italy.
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