Objectives monitored by OECD

Gender equality
9.2.2020

VÄLIME/Planning and assessment

Planning and developing of the regional development cooperation according to the Strategy for Development Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa; monitoring and assessing ongoing development c...
19.12.2019

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

COWASH IV (Community-led Accelerated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene ProjectI) increases the availability of safe water and sanitation in rural areas of Ethiopia. The aimed long term impact is to improve...
19.12.2019

FASE Education sector support for Mozambique

FASE is a Trust Fund to support the comprehensive development of the country's education sector, funded by Mozambican government and international donors. FASE implements the ten-year strategy for the ...
18.12.2019

Presession of the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues in Inari and UN regional consultation on enhanced participation 9.-18.2.2020

The topic of of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues deals with peace and security and is related to implementing the SDG16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. The PFII will be held in New ...
17.12.2019

Support to the implementation of the cross-cutting objectives in Finnish Development Policy

The project aims at the effective and efficient implementation of the the cross-cutting objectives in Finnish Development Policy. The cross-cutting objectives are gender equality, non-discrimination, c...
17.12.2019

Syria Accountability mechanism, support to the UN International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM)

The UN General Assembly passed on December 2016 the resolution 71/248 establishing the "International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Resp...
17.12.2019

UN Multi-Partner Human Security Trust Fund for the Aral Sea Region in Uzbekistan

It is suggested that Finland supports the UN-affiliated Multi-Partner Human Security Trust Fund for the Aral Sea region in Uzbekistan. Based on an initiative of the new president of Uzbekistan and esta...
16.12.2019

Strengthening democratic institutions in the governance of natural resources, 2nd phase

This joint project between DEMO, NIMD and IMD aims to strengthen national and provincial parliaments in Mozambique so that they are able to implement their oversight role of the mining sector in an act...
12.12.2019

International Crisis Group (ICG)

The International Crisis Group (ICG) is one of the most respected independent organisations in the field of conflict prevention and management. ICG is a think tank with also more operational roles. ICG...
12.12.2019

Support to UNFPA for humanitarian activities in Syria

Syria's humanitarian situation continues to be difficult. 13.7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. In addition, 5.7 million people are refugees in neighbouring countries. The huma...
11.12.2019

Consolidated WASH Account, CWA II

Consolidated WASH Account II (CWA II) is financing the implementation of One WASH National Programme II (OWNP II) of the Ethiopian government. CWA II is supported by a group of donors in close cooperat...
11.12.2019

Finnish support to UN Women in Kenya 2020-23

The programme is based on the UN Women Kenya Country Office Strategic Note 2019-2022, which is aligned with the global UN Women Strategic Plan (2018-2021), the gender priorities area of the MFA Kenya C...
11.12.2019

MYA/Strengthening Teacher Education in Myanmar

Myanmar's education system is under-resourced and in urgent need of support to improving quality and inclusivity in education. Learning outcomes among all students as well as the quality of teaching ar...
11.12.2019

Support to the Water Services Trust Fund (WSTF)

Finland has suppored Kenya's Water Services Trust Fund (WSTF) with 10,5 million euros between 2009 and 2019. The total budget for 2014-19 is 17,3 MEUR, of which Finland's share is 7 MEUR. The programme...
29.11.2019

Community-Led Accelerated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Ethiopia, phase III

COWASH (Community-led Accelerated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene ProjectI) increases the availability of safe water and sanitation in rural areas of Ethiopia. The aimed long term impact is to improve th...
29.11.2019

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...
27.11.2019

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, DCED

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) is a forum that develops donors' methodologies in order to improve the results-based management and effectiveness of private sector development coop...
25.11.2019

IDA 19 (The Nineteenth Replenishment of the International Development Association, IDA)

The International Development Association forms part of the World Bank Group and mainly provides concessional and grant financing to the poorest developing countries. Currently, 75 countries are eligib...
25.11.2019

Project of strengthening the supply and demand of civil register as well as health and social welfare services in CSPS, (PRODEPS)

Save the Children Finland’s EU DEVCO -funded PRODEPS project aims at contributing to strengthening the supply and demand of the civil register as well as health care and social welfare services (family...
25.11.2019

Supporting a Sustainable Political Settlement in Afghanistan

Inter Mediate project supports negotiations for sustainable political settlements in Afghanistan by facilitating the different stakeholders of the peace process. Project is so called track-1 project th...
25.11.2019

UNICEF (WASH)

UNICEF WASH-Programme (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) in Afghanistan aims to enhance the access and use of improved drinking water supply and sanitation facilities. It promotes also hygiene behavior. P...
25.11.2019

UNICEF - Non violence in school and child protection

Violence against children is a cause of concern in the occupied Palestinian territory. Palestinian children face violence as a consequence of the occupation and conflict, as well as within family, comm...
21.11.2019

Women and Girls First Programme

UNFPA's Women and Girls Fist (WGF) Programme II ensures that people in Myanmar who are the furthest behind in conflict affected states realise their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and...
15.11.2019

Funding of the World Bank's Donor Funded Staffing Program

The World Bank staffing program (Donor Funded Staffing Program, DFSP) aims to include Finnish know-how into the World Bank and offer Mid Career Level Specialist positios to Finnish experts. Previously...
15.11.2019

UNDP: Building Resilience in Response to the Syrian Crisis

The Syrian conflict has created a huge humanitarian catastrophe affecting the lives of millions of people. The resilience of people is under extreme pressure in Syria and its neighbouring countries. P...
7.11.2019

The support of Finland to the International Peace Institute (IPI) in resolving and managing conflicts

The support of Finland to the International Peace Institute (IPI) in resolving and managing conflicts. The aim is to enhance multilateral capacity in areas of international peace and security. IPI is a...
7.11.2019

UNICEF WASH and Education Programmes

The Finnish Country Strategy for Development Cooperation in Nepal reduces poverty and promotes sustainable and equal development on three impact areas: 1) water supply and sanitation 2) high-quality ed...
31.10.2019

Core Support to UN Women Afghanistan

Important advances in gender equality and women's empowerment have been made in Afghanistan over the past 18 years. These advances have enabled greater promotion and protection of women's and girls hum...
30.10.2019

Support for resilience of people of Burundi

Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world ranking 184th out of 188 countries in the Human DevelopmentIndex. Severe food insecurity, wide spread malnutrition and lack of basic services are so...
28.10.2019

High-Level Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes 2019

High-Level Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes (GIM) is a UN training aimed at advancing the participation of women in mediation and enhancing the capacity to implement gender sensitive...
22.10.2019

Finland´s support to the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. From 12-14 November, the governments of Kenya and Denmark and the United Nations P...
17.10.2019

PROMOSERV 3 - Promoting Modernisation of Hydrometeorological Services in Vietnam

The targeted impact of the Promoserv 3 project is to improve the weather services available in Vietnam. The project aims primarily to increase the capacity of the Meteorological and Hydrological Admini...
17.10.2019

UNFPA/Annual contribution 2019

Contribution to UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) regular resources in 2019. The goal of UNFPA is to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize reproductive rights, and r...
27.9.2019

Support to Elections in Ethiopia

Ethiopia's general elections are scheduled for May 2020. The United Nations electoral support project will be coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Project supports National E...
12.9.2019

FCA: Supporting national and local level reconciliation in Somalia

Somalia is recovering from decades of war and collapse of state structures. The core state functions are now operating and state formation is underway. The legitimacy of the state, however, is still we...
28.8.2019

Planning funds for Finland's Embassy in Kathmandu

Implementing development cooperation in Nepal requires the identification and preparation of new projects as well as managing, monitoring and evaluating ongoing projects. An important part of the Embas...
28.8.2019

UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the field of human rights

In the year 2019 Finland supports with a sum of 800 000 euros the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Co-operation in the Field of Human Rights (VFTC). Through the fund most of OHCHR's support...
7.8.2019

The Network of Religious and Traditional Peacemakers

The project will support during 2019-2020 the activities of the Finn Church Aid (FCA) as a secretariat for the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers for a total of 940 000 euros. The Networ...
12.7.2019

UN Post-conflict Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Colombia

The UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund was established in 2016 to contribute to the implementation of the Peace Agreement signed between the Colombian state and the FARC. The funding (86 MUSD) for the first p...
26.6.2019

State Aid for Human Rights Training

The Ministry awards state aid for the purpose of supporting at least 8 participants from development countries to participate in human rights training in Finland on a yearly basis. Two participants a...
20.6.2019

OHCHR; Promotion of the flagship projects of the Human Rights Strategy of the Finnish Foreign Service; women's rights, gender equality

In accordance with the priorities of the Government's report on Development Policy, the Government's Human Rights Report and the Human Rights Strategy of the Foreign Service of Finland and its Action P...
17.6.2019

UN; OHCHR; Human Rights Special Procedures

Support to the human rights Special Procedures that are mandated under the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Finland allocates funding to the work of the mandates on the basi...
14.6.2019

UN Women/core funding

Voluntary core contribution to UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women was founded in July 2010 and launched in early 2011 by combing four existin...
13.6.2019

UN-Women EBE3 / Jordan: Eid-bi-Eid 3 project to promote women's economic empowerment

The Syria crisis, which lasted for 8 years, is among the largest humanitarian emergencies in the world. It has affected particularly the neighboring states. For example, Jordan currently hosts 671.000 ...
10.6.2019

Quick Impact Projects in Lebanon

Quick Impact Projects in Lebanon support the development of local communities in Southern Lebanon and, thereby, enhance the trust between the UNIFIL troops and the local population, which is essential ...
4.6.2019

Elections and human rights in Tanzania

The programme aims at promoting human rights and citizen participation in electoral processes in Tanzania in 2019 local and 2020 general elections. The programme is implemented by a consortium of 22 ci...
24.5.2019

EU4Skills: Better Skills for Modern Ukraine

The proposed multilateral project will contribute to the modernisation of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system in Ukraine. After the end of Soviet Union, the VET system in Ukraine has not...
24.5.2019

UN Alliance of Civilizations; Youth Solidarity Fund 2019

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF) was established in 2008 to support the work of youth organizations in developing countries and to advance the mission of...
13.5.2019

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...
10.5.2019

West Bank Protection Consortium

The West Bank Protection Consortium is a programme supported by ECHO and ten EU countries. It provides humanitarian protection, stengthens the development conditions for Palestinian communities in Area...
6.5.2019

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, AIHRC

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commision is the most important actor in the country in the field of human rights.The structure, duties and mandates of the AIHRC have been defined in a special...
3.5.2019

Programme planning

Planning of the Kenyan development co-operation concerning bilateral collaboration in the framework of Kenya country strategy.
3.5.2019

Support to Justice Rapid Response for the fight against impunity

Justice Rapid Response strengthens the effectiveness of accountability mechanisms worldwide by providing rapidly available experts to ensure the quality and the timeliness of investigations of mass atr...
3.5.2019

UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communication

UNESCO, created in 1945, is the UN organization responsible for education, science and culture. UNESCO's mandate is to build peace and sustainable development, deminish poverty and confirm human rights...
24.4.2019

The UN Team of Experts on Rule of Law / Sexual Violence in Conflict

The Team of Experts (TOE) on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict, which was established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1888 (2009), is liaised with the office of the United Nations...
24.4.2019

UNESCO Capacity Development for Education Programme

UNESCO, created in 1945, is the UN organization responsible for education, science and culture. UNESCO's mandate is to build peace and sustainable development, deminish poverty and confirm human rights...
16.4.2019

African Union Conflict Prevention and Mediation Capacities Support Project

Finland’s long-term project cooperation with the African Union in the field of mediation will continue by a new three-year-project in 2019 – 2022. Finland funded the AU mediation Support Capcity Pro...
16.4.2019

Support to President Halonen's development policy related activities

President Halonen leads and is a member of many international organizations and networks that work with sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, the status of women and girls, sexual and...
28.3.2019

KV.RAH.LAIT/WB/ Human Rights and Development Trust Fund

Rising global inequalities, lagging progress in economic and social development, multiple prolonged violent conflicts, and increased forced displacement point to an unprecedented need to strengthen the...
28.3.2019

Say NO to Gender Based Violence in Timor Leste

Sexual and gender-based violence are severe problems inTimor Leste, which is recovering from a long-term conflict. Of those women that have experienced violence in their marriages, 77 per cent report t...
28.3.2019

UNU WIDER-Institute annual contribution

The objective of the project is to support research on the global development issues. UNU-WIDER conducts multi-disciplinary research and analyses global problems and potential solutions to them. The re...
15.3.2019

Support to UNFPA for humanitarian activities in Syria

EUR 1.5 million of this year's humanitarian aid allocation is proposed to be allocated to UNFPA for Syria and cross-border programs. Syria's humanitarian situation continues to be difficult. The nee...
14.3.2019

Higher Education Institutions - Institutional Cooperation Programme 2020-24

The long-term objective of the HEI ICI programme is to strengthen the performance of higher education institutions in the global south and to support their ability to provide well-functioning and acces...
12.3.2019

The Fourth Conference on National Dialogues 2019

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Finn Church Aid and Crisis Management Initiative, will organise the fourth international conference on na...
11.3.2019

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Financial Investment - Concessional Partner Loan

IFAD was established in 1977 as a United Nations special agency to develop and finance programs and projects aiming at improving food security and nutrition and reducing poverty in developing countries...
8.3.2019

UN Women Enhance women’s roles in influencing the political process and contribution to peacebuilding

Women are experiencing resistance to their participation in politics in Libya and women are under-represented in political positions. The dominant perceptions of women's limited role in leadership and ...
4.3.2019

UNAMA, Salaam

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNAMA, Salam Support Group (SSG) supports the peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan. The SSG II programme 2019 - 2020 has five main focus...
8.2.2019

INT/Organizational support for the Finnish Committee for UNICEF

The association is the national committee of the United Nations Children's Fund. UNICEF is the guardian of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention forms the basis for the pro...
8.2.2019

Organisational Support for the Finnish Refugee Council

The Finnish Refugee Council is a specialist in international refugee work. Its mission is to improve the basic rights of refugees and returnees. It works closely with UNHCR (United Nations High Comissi...
8.2.2019

Organisational Support for UN Women Finland

Finland National Committee for UN Women is a non-governmental organisation with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The national committee supports the mi...
28.1.2019

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); 11th Replenishment

IFAD was established in 1977 as a United Nations special agency to develop and finance programs and projects aiming at improving food security and nutrition and reducing poverty in developing countries...
25.1.2019

Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2018-21

Council of Europe (CoE) Action Plan for Ukraine 2018-2021 continues earlier work of CoE in Ukraine (Action Plan 2015-17). Through this action Plan the CoE together with Ukrainian government and other s...
19.12.2018

World Bank; Afganistan Reconstruction Trust Fund

The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) manages donor contributions for the payment of civil servants' salaries, recurring budgetary expenditures of the Government and priority projects to reb...
16.12.2018

The Local Councils are Ours: TADWEIN

Tackling governance, leadership and political participation from a gender transforming perspective involves considering women as responsible individuals, capable of taking decisions and indispensable f...
14.12.2018

Appraisal of concessional credit projects

Project finances monitoring and evaluation of the Concessional Credit projects as well as the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of projects funded by the Public Sector Investment Facility (PIF) -i...
14.12.2018

Consolidating gains and deepening devolution in Kenya

UNDP administered (in co-ordination with UN Women and UNICEF) support for devolution in Kenya. The aim of the programme is to develop and deepen the results of the constitution mandated devolution proc...
14.12.2018

MYA/Support to the Myanmar Peace Fund - Phase Two

The Myanmar Joint Peace Fund is a joint fund of ten countries and the EU to support Myanmar's efforts to achieve lasting and inclusive peace. The internal conflicts in Myanmar have lasted for over 70 y...
14.12.2018

UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the field of human rights

In the year 2018 Finland gives additional funding of 150.000euros to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Co-operation in the Field of Human Rights (VFTC). The total funding for 2018 will th...
13.12.2018

Health and Education Sector Development through Skills and Knowledge Transfer in South Central Somalia

The project aims at improving the capacity of public sector health and education institutions to provide quality services with special focus on vulnerable groups: women, children and youth through skil...
13.12.2018

INT/Global Women Deliver 2019 Conference; support to developing countries' participation and other activities

Women Deliver (WD) is a leading global advocate for health, rights and wellbeing of girls and women, with a particular focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights. WD organizes global conference...
13.12.2018

Strengthening Prevention and Response to gender based violence in Kenya

The objective of the bilateral programme is to prevent and reduce gender-based violence (GBV) against women and children in Kenya and to ensure first-response services for victims especially at county ...
13.12.2018

UN Women Women, Peace and Security in the Arab States - Phase II

UN Women's programme bolsters implementation capacity on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and ensures that the needs and priorities of women and girls affected by conflicts are met and addressed. At...
12.12.2018

Afghanistan; UNDP; Law and Order Trust Fund (LOTFA)

Finland provides financial support to the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan (LOTFA) established by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2002. LOTFA has a new Terms of Reference, an...
10.12.2018

Facility for Refugees in Turkey

In order to implement the EU-Turkey statement of 2016 the EU and its Member States established a Facility for Refugees in Turkey. The aim of the support is to respond to the humanitarian and developmen...
10.12.2018

No Lost Generation Lebabon: Wellbeing of Syrian children in Lebanon

Around 13 million people are displaced due to Syrian crisis. Lebanon is hosting the highest load of Syrian refugees compared to its size. The country of six million habitants host some 1.5 million Syri...
4.12.2018

Community-Led Accelerated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Ethiopia, phase III

COWASH (Community-led Accelerated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene ProjectI) increases the availability of safe water and sanitation in rural areas of Ethiopia. The aimed long term impact is to improve th...
4.12.2018

Support of Joint Financing arrangement of IGAD (extension)

Finland has supported Inter-Governmental Authority on Development since its establishment in late 1980s. Between 2011-2014 Finland supported strengthening the institutional and project management capac...
4.12.2018

Support to the Peace Process in Myanmar

Myanmar has been suffering from civil war for the past 70 years. The Finnish Evangelic Lutheran Mission's (FELM) and Euro-Burma Office's (EBO) project aims to support Myanmar in finding a lasting solu...
4.12.2018

UNWOMEN: Leaving no one behind: Women's equal access to justice and inclusive governance

The UN Women implemented project “Leaving no one Behind”, is part of the UNWomen Nepal Country Strategy for the years 2018-2021. The total budget is 4 million euros. The project is divided into two ...
3.12.2018

The support of Finland to the International Peace Institute (IPI) in resolving and managing conflicts

The support of Finland to the International Peace Institute (IPI) in resolving and managing conflicts. The aim is to enhance multilateral capacity in areas of international peace and security. IPI is a...
3.12.2018

Trade and Development / UN Global Compact; Contribution to the Global Compact trust Fund in 2018-2020 (5th contribution)

UN Global Compact (UNGC) is a global corporate leaders’ initiative, launched by the UN Secretary-General in 2000, which aims at transforming the business world to operate, both in developed and develop...
29.11.2018

EBRD Syrian Refugee Response Programme

EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) aims at establishing democratic and market economies in transit countries. Finland has contributed to EBRD's SEMED MDA (South-Eastern Mediterr...
29.11.2018

IDEA MyConstitution

The 2008 Constitution remains one of the key aspects of negotiation within the peace process and future reforms will be necessary to transition from military to democratic rule. Through MyConstitution ...
27.11.2018

Second phase of biosafety and biosecurity project; prevention of spread of infectious diseases

Biosafety and biosecurity related projects aim at building capacity in developing countries to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. This project aims at preventing unintentional and intentional s...
27.11.2018

UNODC; Sustainable livelihoods and forest governance, phase 2

Myanmar is the second largest opium poppy growing country. Poppy cultivation weakens the environment by increasing deforestation and soil degradation, as well as causing economic and social instability...
23.11.2018

VÄLIME/Planning and assessment

Planning and developing of the regional development co-operation according to the Strategy for Development Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa; monitoring and assessing ongoing development ...
21.11.2018

Funding Facility for Immediate Stabilization in Iraq (FFIS), UNDP

Iraq is struggling with a multitude of challenges, needing long-term support by the international community. Security situation is challenging due to presence of ISIL and due to tensions between ethnic...
21.11.2018

INT/International Trade Centre

International Trade Centre (ITC) is a joint international organization created by UNCTAD and WTO and offering trade-related technical assistance. Its mission is to enhance inclusive and sustainable gro...
8.11.2018

Electoral support to Mozambique 2018-2020

The main focus of this project is to improve transparency, credibility and inclusiveness in Mozambique's local and general elections in 2018 and 2019. The project offers training, support and new tools...
8.11.2018

Forest & Farm Facility (second phase)

Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) is a partnership programme, launched in 2012, between Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the In...
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