Universal human needs are the same in all cultures and historical moments, its variation is determined by the mechanism or means used to achieve them.

The satisfaction of human needs must be given in three contexts, also interrelated:
- In relation to oneself.
- In relation to the social group.
- In relation to the environment.

Like many other authors, Manfred Max Neef, Development Studies, Human Scale, classifies human needs into categories and categorical existential axiomatic. In the first identifies needs be, have, do and be, and axiological on subsistence needs, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity and freedom. The complementarity and interrelation between these categories to determine the satisfactions and ways to meet one or more requirements. A need can have many satisfactions and it is these that determine the degree of development in different cultures and regions (Table).

Need has been erroneously equated with shortages, without considering the needs simultaneously can also be human potential. When one accepts the need and deprivation, are restricted only to the physiological field which is precisely the area where a need for more power is assumed as the failure of something “but when we undertake needs, motivate and mobilize people are potential. For example:

- Need to engage potential for participation.
- Need to potential freedom of autonomy.

The satisfaction of human needs means, then self-reliance and participation in personal and collective level, leading to improved quality of life and therefore to generate human development.

The AECI joins the International Health Partnership (IHP) for health sector development in Ethiopia

The signing of the IHP Compact will accelerate progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals related to health.

IHP Compact signed between the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and its development partners and international agencies as part of the IHP (International Health Partnership), which has joined the Spanish Agency of International Development Cooperation in Ethiopia. The implementation of this Compact will help accelerate progress towards achieving the MDGs through the Health Sector Development Program of Health in Ethiopia (HSDP).

The agreement was signed on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia by the Minister of Health, Dr. Tedros Adhanom and the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Development Ato Mekonnen Manyazewal, and representatives of 12 international aid agencies working in the Germany: European Commission, DFID, AECI, Netherlands Cooperation, Italian Cooperation, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, Global Fund, UNAIDS, World Bank and African Development Bank.

The Minister stressed during the signing ceremony of the IHP Compact puts into Ethiopia and the signatory countries to the head of the donor harmonization process and in implementing the Paris agenda in the health sector in Africa, and marks a milestone in the history of relations between the government and its cooperation partners in the country, and expressed his gratitude to the signatory agencies.