The Center

The Centre for International Development (CID) is a policy consulting and advisory organisation whose members are academics, researchers, field experts and professionals.
CID was established in 2002 to provide training, international co-operation, technical assistance and policy analysis in developing and transition countries.
It was initially set up as a workshop for the University of Bologna, collaborating with the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Department of Economic Sciences. It then became an independent unit attached to the University to provide a facility for the Masters in International Development Cooperation.
CID main aim is to support, foster and facilitate the development process of those countries toward equity, well being and shared satisfactory living conditions for all-

CID was founded as a Not-for-profit Association by Pier Giorgio Ardeni, an international development expert, Anna Maria Gentili, a scholar in international political economy and African development, and Fabio Nuti Giovannetti, an economist.

Over time, CID has enjoyed the collaboration of several scholars and professionals like:

• Michael Bamberger, an expert in results-based M&E and impact evaluation;
• Giovanni Andrea Cornia, an international development expert; 
• Nicola Grande, expert in educational training for small-enterprises; 
• Andrea Pignataro, an expert in international finance; 
• Ray Rist, an expert of results-based monitoring and evaluation;
• Terry Smutylo, an expert in Outcome Mapping and M&E methods and prectices;
  
• Angelo Stefanini, an expert in health and development;
• Susan Tamondong, an evaluation expert, board member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
  
• Ricardo Wilson-Grau, an expert in Outcome Harvesting and Complexity-aware M&E methods;
  
• Antonio Zini, an expert of international cooperation at local level.

Over time, CID has established links and partnerships with several Institutions and Organisations, like:

From 2016 to 2019:

In 2018:

In previous years:
Bosnia and Herzegovina State Agency for Public Administration
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Directorate for International Cooperation
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