Department for Development Policy

The Department for Development Policy handles the following issues:

• Finland's international development policy, development cooperation policy, and development and humanitarian financing;
• overall planning and monitoring of development cooperation, action plans and financial planning, budget formulation, financial administration as well as statistics and reporting;
• quality control, development and guidance related to development cooperation, including development research;
• development policy and development cooperation in the EU and the OECD;
• non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) development cooperation, support for international NGOs (INGOs) in respect of issues that do not fall under the administration of any other organisational unit;
• FINNFUND, concessional credits and business-to-business partnerships;
• development questions in the UN, and the UN's operative development programmes and funds;
• development policy dimensions of Trade and Development and Aid for Trade (AfT);
• development Financing Institutions (DFIs), developing countries' debt issues, and innovative financing mechanisms;
• sustainable development and international environmental policy, including related financing;
• humanitarian aid policy and humanitarian assistance;
• planning and guidance of Junior Professional Officer (JPO) activities;
• international agreements that fall under the administration of the Department, planning of legislation and other legal issues.