"Cooperation to development" was born as a governmental expression after the Second World War and was used first by the United Nations. At the end of the 20th century, through a solid system of values, it gained the non-governmental dimension and became a legitimate representation of civil society. Governmental cooperation deals with transferring financial resources, services, goods and technical assistance from a government or public entity of a developed country to a developing one, while non-governmental cooperation is freed from political and economic national burdens and is based on issues coming directly from civil society. In the Italian background, the NGOs dealing with cooperation with developing countries were first acknowledged in 1979 by Law no. 38 on cooperation and, subsequently, by the new Amendment Law no. 49 dated 1987, after which they experienced a period of strong growth. Nowadays, there are 154 NGOs operating in this field; some of them receive public funds, while the majority, about 90% of the total, carry on their activities through volunteers and self-financing measures. Below there are some links to projects GSI is currently implementing in different developing countries.