Latest funding decisions


29.11.2023

Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

A network of 40 bilateral and multilateral donors, international financial institutions, intergovernmental organizations, foundations, and development agencies. Set up in 2003 following the first High-...
28.11.2023

INT/Consultancy services

The funding will be used to acquire consultancy services that support the preparation and implementation of a high-quality development policy. Through support consultants, the Department for Developmen...
24.11.2023

Project planning Yangon

Implementing development cooperation in Myanmar requires the identification and preparation of new projects as well as managing, monitoring and evaluating ongoing projects. An important part of the Emb...
23.11.2023

Core Support to UN Women Afghanistan

Afghanistan is one of the least developed countries in the world and ranks the lowest in gender equality indexes. The humanitarian and socio-economic situation further deteriorated after the Taliban to...
21.11.2023

TMA TradeMark Africa - support to African economic intergration 2024-2027

TradeMark Africa (TMA), formerly TradeMark East Africa (TMEA), is an Aid-for-Trade organization founded in 2010 with the aim of increasing prosperity through increased trade. Through its activities, TM...
20.11.2023

Reinvigorated UN Resident Coordinators System; Support to the Special Purpose Trust Fund

Contribution to the Special Purpose Trust Fund for the implementation of the Reinvigorated United Nations Resident Coordinator System. The Trust Fund is administered by UNDCO (UN Development Coordinati...
16.11.2023

Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership Fund

E5P Trust Fund strengthens municipal investments in Eastern Partnership countries by increasing energy efficiency and improving the state of the environment. E5P takes a holistic approach and combines ...
14.11.2023

CoWASH IV, Community-Led Accelerated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Ethiopia

COWASH IV (Community-led Accelerated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project, Phase IV) increases the availability of safe water and sanitation in rural areas of Ethiopia. The aimed long term impact is t...
13.11.2023

UN Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan, STFA

Afghanistan is one of the least developed countries in the world. Humanitarian and socio-economic situation in the country further deteriorated after the Taliban takeover in 08/2021. While the internat...
31.10.2023

INT/UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons With Disabilities UNPRPD

It is estimated that more than a billion people - about 16 % of the world's population - live with some form of disability. They experience higher rates of poverty, less legal protection, lower educati...
13.10.2023

Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, yleisavustus

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance promotes global immunisation against epidemics and helps vaccinate children against life-threatening infectious diseases. Gavi’s main mission is to save lives and protect the...
13.10.2023

Support to Finnish Water Forum

The Finnish water Forum (FWF) is a water sector network in Finland. The association promotes the cooperation and expertise of Finnish water sector actors as well as international activities, developmen...
11.10.2023

Saving Lives Entity (SALIENT) – A Transformative Armed-Violence-Reduction Agenda for Sustainable Development

The Saving Lives Entity (SALIENT) is a global project that will allocate small grants to catalyse more comprehensive approaches to small-arms and armed-violence reduction in priority countries. SALIENT...
6.10.2023

Annual payment to the Montreal Protocol Ozone Fund

The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer was opened for signature in 1987. It contains legally binding agreements that aim to reduce the production, consumption and trade of ozo...
6.10.2023

Finnish-Ukrainian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Cooperation

Cooperation and exchange of information in the field of nuclear and radiation safety, application for project preparation funding. Proposed cooperation between STUK and its Ukrainian counterpart SNRI...
6.10.2023

UNSCAR/Implementing the international Small arms and light weapons commitments in developing countries

The UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR) supports the implementation of commitments on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). In practice UN partners, international and re...
2.10.2023

UNIDIR - Strengthening Weapon and Ammunition Management (WAM)

The aim of the project is to develop national capacity and principles of good governance with regard to small arms and their ammunition in priority States. The project aims to promote a coherent and st...
26.9.2023

Development Cooperation Planning Funds for Somalia/ALI

Somalia is one of Finland's bilateral development cooperation partner countries. In 2021 – 2024 Finland’s bilateral development cooperation in Somalia focuses on state- and peacebuilding as well as wom...
26.9.2023

VIET/Project preparation and monitoring in Vietnam

The implementation of development policy and cooperation in Vietnam has been delegated to the country level to the Embassy of Finland in Hanoi. This includes for example identification, planning and mo...
24.9.2023

ADD Planning Funds 2023

The Addis Ababa embassy's planning funds are used to support the country program, such as planning and monitoring of projects, the preparation and updating of related documentation, supporting the Dono...
19.9.2023

Finland's Support to OSCE projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Finland supports the OSCE projects in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia with development cooperation funds via special Framework Agreement between the OSCE and the Embassy of Finland in V...
18.9.2023

ETI/Kehitysyhteistyön suunnittelu

The purpose of the planning funds for Ethiopia is to ensure necessary resources for planning, monitoring and evaluation of the development cooperation projects. The planning funds are needed to impleme...
8.9.2023

Toimialakohtainen kehittämistyö

The funds will be used for the planning and development of sector policies, the development of new methodologies, advisory and expert services, seminars, conferences and travel, international influenci...
23.8.2023

Strengthening of Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment in Colombia

Colombia is rich in freshwater resources, with national water yields six times greater than the global average, and also has abundant groundwater resources. However, water pollution is increasing daily...
30.6.2023

Joint Nordic evaluation of contributions to multilateral trust funds

Multilateral contributions constitute an increasing share of development assistance from the Nordic countries, and a significant and increasing share of the multilateral contributions is earmarked and ...
30.6.2023

Support to ILO's Global Coalition for Social Justice Initiative

Finland supports the construction of ILO's the Global Coalition for Social Justice initiative. The goal is to promote social justice in order to achieve the SDG goals. The project promotes especially S...
29.6.2023

Fostering health and protection to vulnerable migrants transiting through Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen (Phase III)

The project managed by the IOM (International Organization for Migration) aims to support and fill the gaps of the national and local actors of Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen in jointly manag...
26.6.2023

European Institute of Peace (EIP) core funding

The mission of the European Institute of Peace (EIP) is to contribute to and compliment the European Union's global peace agenda through peace mediation. EIP is a private public interest foundation und...
21.6.2023

International IDEA

Democracy, the rule of law and human rights lie at the core of Finnish foreign and development policies. Democracy issues are receiving increasing attention globally due to Russia's war of aggression a...
19.6.2023

Finland's contribution to the IMO GreenVoyage2050 project

Finland is committed to the goals set in the Paris Climate Agreement. The project is about Finland's contribution 2024-2026 as a stand-alone component of the joint IMO-Norway project called "The GreenV...
16.6.2023

Strengthening Resilience of Education in Ethiopia/Education Cannot Wait

In Ethiopia, long-term man-made and natural disasters, as well as climate change, have caused internal displacement that has driven more than 2 million people from their homes. Although the positive po...
15.6.2023

The Finnish Centre of Expertise in Education and Development (FinCEED)

The Finnish Centre of Expertise in Education and Development (FinCEED) at the Finnish National Agency for Education pools Finnish capacity and expertise in education and development; facilitates the de...
12.6.2023

Evaluation; Finland's support to Justice Rapid Response (JRR)

Justice Rapid Response (JRR) is an inter-governmental cooperation mechanism, which aims to improve the international community's capacity to ensure accountability for the most serious international cri...
1.6.2023

Programme planning

Finland's Country Strategy for Tanzania covers the years 2021–2024. Its main goals are to strengthen democracy, human rights and equality; to promote stability and sustainable development; to support i...
31.5.2023

WFP humanitarian aid

Afghanistan's long-standing difficult humanitarian situation turned into one of the world's worst humanitarian crises after the Taliban came to power in the fall of 2021. The crisis is due to e.g. wide...
29.5.2023

Systematic Observations Finance Facility (SOFF)

The Systematic Observations Finance Facility (SOFF) aims to invest in weather observation equipment and systems, in particular in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States...
2.5.2023

Programme planning, Sub-Saharan Africa

Allocation for Regional Programme Planning will be used for project preparation, conducting of studies and evaluation, audits, seminar arrangements, travel costs related to programme monitoring and se...
21.4.2023

Support to SIWI for strengthtening the Women in Water Diplomacy Network

The Stockholm International Water Institute's (SIWI) project aims to support the visibility and networking of female water diplomats. The cooperation focuses Central Asia and Afghanistan, as well as th...
19.4.2023

Strengthening of impact of multilateral development cooperation

The funds will be allocated to multilateral influencing activities related to UN funds and programmes and other international organizations under the responsibility of the Unit for UN Development and I...
17.4.2023

Development Economics Project 2023-26

The impact objective of the project is to enhance sustainable economic growth and well-being in developing countries, by strengthening the teaching and knowledge of development economics, particularly ...
14.4.2023

Support to the Finnish Chairmanship of the Good Humanitarian Donorship Group

Ministry for Foreign Affairs/Unit for Humanitarian Assistance and Policy acquires support for the Finnish Chairmanship of the Good Humanitarian Donorship Group.
12.4.2023

INT/UN Desertification Convention; Finland's assessed contribution

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) which entered into force in 1996 is a legally binding international agreement combining sustainable land use, environment and development issues. UNC...
12.4.2023

Strengthening the efficiency of funding policy

Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation (KEO-50) finances development instruments to support the strengthening of private sector in developing countries. International developme...
12.4.2023

Visits to Finland by journalists from the developing countries

The aim of the project is to build networks between Finnish and developing country journalists and to show what openness and freedom of the press means in practice. Main objective of these media visi...
5.4.2023

Voluntary contribution to the OECD Development Assistance Committee´s (DAC) Programme of Work and Budget 2023-24

Voluntary contribution of 750 000 EUR to the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s (DAC) Programme of Work and Budget (PWB) for the biennium 2023-24. The contribution will be paid in two annual insta...
4.4.2023

Evaluation management services framework agreement 2024 - 2029

The Development Evaluation Unit (EVA-11) of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) carries out regular strategic level and policy evaluations, meta-evaluations and syntheses of decentralized...
3.4.2023

Increasing Climate Resilience of Zanzibar with Integrated Marine Management and Sustainable Blue Economy

Increasing Climate Resilience of Zanzibar with Integrated Marine Management and Sustainable Blue Economy (BLUE-ZAN) builds on the institutional partnerships and results achieved within the earlier ICI-...
31.3.2023

DAG/Core support for peace mediation activities

The Dialogue Advisory Group (DAG) focuses on acting as a peace broker between armed non-state actors and official actors. The organisation seeks to operate in contexts where official actors cannot oper...
30.3.2023

EITI, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global standard founded in 2003 to promote the open and accountable management of natural resources. The standard seeks to address key gove...
29.3.2023

Supporting youth employment and entrepreneurship

The project implemented by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in 2023-2027 aims to create livelihoods and employment opportunities for young women and men in the field of green ...
28.3.2023

Global Education Network Europe (GENE): core funding

Global Education Network Europe (GENE), is the network of Ministries and Agencies with national responsibility for global education and related fields in Europe. GENE supports networking, peer learning...
28.3.2023

Participatory Plantation Forestry Programme in Tanzania 2

Participatory Plantation Forestry Programme in Tanzania phase 2 is focusing geographically on Southern Highlands in Tanzania. It is a continuation of phase 1 (2014-2018) and it will concentrate on help...
24.3.2023

Communications with citizens and events

The implementation of the goals of Finland´s development policy relies on the essential support of Finnish citizens and the relevant interest groups. The Unit for Development Communications supports...
24.3.2023

Communications with stakeholders

The implementation of the goals of Finland´s development policy relies on the essential support of Finnish citizens and the relevant interest groups. The Unit for Development Communications supports...
24.3.2023

Global education

The implementation of the goals of Finland´s development policy relies on the essential support of Finnish citizens and the relevant interest groups. The Unit for Development Communications supports...
24.3.2023

Kehitys-Utveckling magazine

The implementation of the goals of Finland´s development policy relies on the essential support of Finnish citizens and the relevant interest groups. The Unit for Development Communications supports...
24.3.2023

Media cooperation

The implementation of the goals of Finland´s development policy relies on the essential support of Finnish citizens and the relevant interest groups. The Unit for Development Communications supports...
24.3.2023

Payment to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Finlands contribution to the Environment Fund in 2023

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimens...
24.3.2023

Support to UN's cross border fund to provide humanitarian aid to those in need in Syria

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs contributes 6,000,000 euros to UN's Syria Cross-border Humanitarian Fund. In Syria, 15.3 million people are in need of aid. Due to the earthquake, 8.8 million people...
23.3.2023

Tax Sector Budget Support to Tanzania, TAXTAN

Domestic Revenue Mobilisation through a fair and efficient tax system is critical to the achievement of Tanzania’s development goals. The rationale for the TAXTAN programme derives from the needs that ...
23.3.2023

UN Women/core funding

Voluntary core contribution to UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women promotes gender equality and ending discrimination against women and girls...
23.3.2023

UNICEF/Annual contribution 2023

Contribution to UNICEF regular resources in 2023 in order to support its work based on the declaration on the rights of child to empower the children and women of the world to live up to their full pot...
22.3.2023

Publications

The implementation of the goals of Finland´s development policy relies on the essential support of Finnish citizens and the relevant interest groups. The Unit for Development Communications supports...
22.3.2023

UNDP/Annual contribution 2023

Contribution to the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) regular resources. UNDP has a key role in supporting country partners to effectively implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmen...
22.3.2023

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Finland's assessed contribution

UNIDO is a UN specialized agency that promotes inclusive and sustainable industrial development in developing countries. Thre operations of UNIDO are concentrated on five priority areas: creating share...
13.3.2023

Trade for Decent Work

International Labour Organizations (ILO) is UN specialized organization focusing on labour rights. Governments, employers and workers are represented in the ILO's tripartite system. ILO drafts internat...
10.3.2023

Idendification, planning and monitoring of development cooperation in the Middle East and Northern Africa

The funds are used for planning and developing of the regional development cooperation according to the Strategy for Development Cooperation in the Middle East and Northern Africa; monitoring and asses...
6.3.2023

Developing countries; humanitarian aid; core funding to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in 2023-26

Ministry for Foreign Affairs grants 10,000,000 euros to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for 2023-26. The annual contribution will be 2,500,000 euros. OCHA is responsib...
6.3.2023

Education Cannot Wait/contribution to the fund

Climate change, natural disasters, wars, protracted conflicts, and the resulting refugee crisis affect the wellbeing of children and young people in many ways. In crises, it may not be possible to go t...
6.3.2023

Humanitarian Assistance; UNHCR; East Horn and Great Lakes

The Horn of Africa is a major junction of migration, and large numbers of people move back and forth within the region. The eastern route of the Horn is the busiest and most dangerous one in the world....
6.3.2023

Humanitarian Assistance; UNHCR; support to UNHCR's Sahel operation

Sahel is one of the fastest growing refugee crises in the world. At the same time, it is one of the most forgotten humanitarian crises. Instability is rooted in poor social and economic conditions. ...
6.3.2023

Humanitarian Assistance; UNHCR; Syria

The war in Syria, which has continued for 12 years, has led to the world’s largest refugee crisis with 5.6 million Syrian refugees living in the neighboring countries of Syria and with 6.8 million IDPs...
6.3.2023

Support to UN's Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs contributes 2,000,000 euros to UN's Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund. Ethiopia faces one of world's most severe humanitarian crises, with 28.6 million people in need of hu...
6.3.2023

Support to UN's Ukraine Humanitarian Fund

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland contributes 5,000,000 euros to UN's Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. In Ukraine, 17.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. In 2023, UN requires 3...
6.3.2023

UNHCR/Core contribution

Finland's core contribution to the UN refugee agency UNHCR in 2023-2026, a total of 28 million euros (7 million euros annually). UNHCR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) is g...
6.3.2023

UNRWA/Core contribution

Finland's core contribution to UNRWA in 2023-2026, a total of 20 million euros (5 million euros annually). UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) is ...
3.3.2023

Humanitarian assistance monitoring visits and advocacy

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland uses 50 000 euros to humanitarian assistance monitoring visits and advocacy. In order to monitor the delivery and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance, the U...
2.3.2023

Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Co-financing of the Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance in Ukraine (PEACE)

The Russian invasion in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has led to considerable economic losses and human suffering in Ukraine. The decline of Ukraine’s economy is risking the already achieved development ...
14.2.2023

Cooperation in support of the rule of law

Strengthening inclusive, peaceful and democratic societies is an important part of Finland’s foreign and security policy and one of the priorities of Finland's development policy. The work is based on ...
14.2.2023

DEMO Finland

The International Democracy Cooperation of the Parties – Demo Finland is a development cooperation and democracy support organization which was established in 2005. The main focus of Demo Finland's wor...
23.1.2023

Programme planning

Finland's Country Strategy for Tanzania covers the years 2021–2024. Its main goals are to strengthen democracy, human rights and equality; to promote stability and sustainable development; to support i...
22.1.2023

SL DAR / bilateral development cooperation programme planning between Tanzania and Finland

Planning funds will be used i.a. for the implementation of the country strategy for development cooperation between Finland and Tanzania, planning, monitoring and evaluation of the bilateral developme...
22.12.2022

Colombia Team Europe Intitaive Forests for Biodiversity, Climate and Peace (EUTF)

A peace agreement between the Colombian government and the guerrilla organization FARC was signed in September 2016 to end the five-decade conflict. In December 2016, the EU established a support fund ...
22.12.2022

MOPAN

MOPAN(mopanonline.org) (Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network) is a network of 19 countries who share a common interest in assessing the effectiveness of the major multilateral organ...
22.12.2022

UNODC core funding

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was established in 1997 as a result of the merging of the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention and the United Nations Internatio...
21.12.2022

The associated costs of a WFP grain shipment from Ukraine to Somalia

Finland supports with 6 512 400 euros the associated costs of a WFP chartered vessel, which will deliver a grain shipment from Ukraine to Somalia. This grain was donated by Ukraine to WFP, but Ukraine ...
21.12.2022

UNICEF/Annual contribution 2022

Contribution to UNICEF regular resources in 2022 in order to support its work based on the declaration on the rights of child to empower the children and women of the world to live up to their full pot...
19.12.2022

Project planning and evaluation

Finland's bilateral development cooperation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is implemented mostly in Ukraine, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In Central Asia projects carried out by UN o...
19.12.2022

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA / Annual contribution 2021

Contribution to UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) regular resources in 2022. UNFPA supports member governments in the field of population and development. The goal of UNFPA is to achieve universal...
16.12.2022

Finland's support to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

Support (funds-in-trust) to UNDESA project Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to implement articles 72-80 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS). T...
16.12.2022

Reinvigorated UN Resident Coordinators System; Support to the Special Purpose Trust Fund

Contribution to the Special Purpose Trust Fund for the implementation of the Reinvigorated United Nations Resident Coordinator System. The Trust Fund is administered by UNDCO (UN Development Coordinati...
16.12.2022

UN Women/core funding

Voluntary core contribution to UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women promotes gender equality and ending discrimination against women and girls...
15.12.2022

Support to UN-OHRLLS for the organization of annual LDC Future Forum

The LDC Future Forum project will contribute to a comprehensive and analytical assessment of the constraints LDCs face in achieving sustainable development, and identifying and sharing innovative solut...
14.12.2022

African Union Mediation Support Project

Finland’s project cooperation with the African Union (AU) for its support to peace mediation and conflict prevention will continue by a new four-year-project called African Union Mediation Support Proj...
14.12.2022

ALUE/Digital and Green Transition Support

The support for Africa's digital and green transition is a pilot project. The aim is to explore the possibilities of using Finnish expertise to promote sustainable and inclusive digitization developmen...
14.12.2022

Data Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa -programme

The Data Governance Team Europe initiative is part of the EU-AU Data Flagship initiative launched by the EU and AU at their summit in February 2022, which aims to promote an inclusive data-based econom...
14.12.2022

Finland's Support to OSCE projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Finland supports the OSCE projects in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia with development cooperation funds via special Framework Agreement between the OSCE and the Embassy of Finland in V...
14.12.2022

MYA/Support to the Myanmar Peace Fund

The Myanmar Joint Peace Fund (JPF) is a joint fund of nine countries (Finland, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Italy, UK, Canada, Australia, and USA). Since its establishment, the fund has supported Myan...
14.12.2022

Preserving the Democratic Assets in Myanmar (EBO/FELM)

EBO/Felm project (Preserving the Democratic Assets in Myanmar 2023-25) contributes to strengthen the democratic resilience of non-armed actors in the face of the present Myanmar political crisis, suppo...
14.12.2022

Restoring Democracy in Myanmar (International IDEA )

The International IDEA project (Restoring Democracy in Myanmar 2023-2024) aims to help restore democracy in Myanmar by supporting democratic actors in Myanmar to build a new constitutional framework an...
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