Role
Director of the MENTOR2 project, Research Coordinator at CeSPI (Center for International Political Studies).
Bio
Petra Mezzetti was part of the team that drafted the Human Development Report (HDR) 2000-2001 and 2002. She collaborated with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva; she subsequently began collaborating with CeSPI (Centre for International Political Studies), working on projects on decentralized and territorial cooperation and international migration for various clients (MAECI, IOM, UNHCR, WB, FIIAP, Ministry of the Interior, Banking Foundations, Municipality of Milan).
She also completed a PhD in European Urban Studies (URBEUR) and conducted consultancy and evaluation work for ICMPD on intergovernmental processes in Africa (e.g., the Rabat Process). She holds a PhD in European Urban Studies (Bicocca, Milan) and a Master's in Development Economics (IUSS, Pavia). She graduated with honors in Modern Literature from the University of Bologna. She is the director of MENTOR2, a project funded by the European Union for the Municipality of Milan on legal migration between Italy, Tunisia, and Morocco.
She works on monitoring and evaluating the reception system in Italy. Since 2017, as part of the MIRECO - Monitoring Improvement of REception COnditions - project funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FAMI), she and a team of experts have been responsible for evaluating and monitoring the Italian reception system (tool development, drafting guidelines, and field missions) in collaboration with UNHCR and the client agencies, particularly the Ministry of the Interior (DLCI) and the Prefectures.
From 2014 to 2019, within the Foundations for Africa Burkina Faso Initiative, funded by ACRI (Association of Foundations and Savings Banks), she was responsible for various training, planning, partnership facilitation, and capitalization initiatives that directly involved associations of the Burkinabe diaspora living in Italy in various regions.
Specifically, she is responsible for selecting, supporting, and monitoring project proposals developed by Burkinabe organizations and third sector associations in local contexts across Italy, as well as organizing reflection seminars and an ongoing publication.
Within the MENTOR - MEditerranean Network for Training Orientation to Regular migration project , funded by the EU through the Mobility Partnership Facility implemented by ICMPD ( International Center for Migration and Policy Development ), led by the Municipality of Milan, she carried out (2017-2018) the role of senior researcher for the drafting of Guidelines on the functioning of the mechanism for internships for young people between Italy-Tunisia and Morocco, as a measure of local development and legal and circular migration.