ODA from Italian Regions

According to a recent survey, the 22 Italian regions fund development cooperation interventions worth 45 million euro per year, to be counted within the Italian ODA. The first 4 most generous regions accounts to 74% of the total. Although decentralized cooperation is often featured as one of the postive development in the Italian development cooperation, financially speaking, it is still a limited actor. All regional resources account at 14% of the financial resources available the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and as much as two big NGOs ,such as MSF and Save the Children, annualy raise from private contributions.