Francesco Zatta is an international development sector practitioner with over 12 years of experience working with NGOs and the Italian Cooperation. Holding a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology, Mr. Zatta’s technical expertise focused on strategic planning of sectoral cooperation programmes, liaising with partners, effective implementation and coordination of programme operations and administration.
Throughout his development career, he also has extensive experience in providing quality assurance support to EU-funded cooperation programmes (Indirect management and PRAG) and multi-annual and annual Italian bilateral cooperation programmes.
While serving as Project Manager (2012 – 2014) for an INGO in Namibia, Mr. Zatta was responsible for overseeing their extensive support to the National HIV/AIDS and TB Programmes for improvement in health, social and economic assistance to the programme beneficiaries.
Mr. Zatta’s collaboration with the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) began in Sudan (2014) as Program Coordinator under a European Union-funded programme for promoting health services and improving the health status of eastern Sudan’s vulnerable populations. He then served as an Education and Culture Sector Coordinator in El Salvador where he supported the educational and cultural sector reforms to enhance the national education system through the implementation of an inclusion model.
As AICS Programme Manager in its Tunisia office (2018 – 2020), Mr. Zatta supported efforts in the capacity building of the Libyan central and local authorities for improved service delivery.
While working at the AICS Headquarters in Rome (2020), he liaised, managed, and coordinated with AICS global country offices on their programme designs, monitoring, and collaborations to strengthen their international and local partnerships.
Since April 2023, Mr. Zatta has been serving as Head of AICS Country Office for Pakistan and Afghanistan.