Objectives monitored by OECD

Participatory development/Good governance
17.10.2017

Strengthening Access to Justice and Confidence Building in Eastern Sudan

Improving the living conditions of female prisoners in Kassala, Gedaref and Red Sea States with a view to easing their social reintegration after release.
16.10.2017

Project planning and evaluation

Finland's bilateral development cooperation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is implemented through the Wider Europe Initiative (WEI) of the Development Policy Program. Central Asia finances projects...
11.10.2017

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. As an associate of the UNHCR in Finland, the Council is ...
11.10.2017

Organisational support for UN Association of Finland

The UN Association of Finland is a Non-Governmental Organization that promotes and supports the actions and principles of the United Nations. UNA Finland was founded in 1954. The Association provides e...
9.10.2017

INT/Aid for Trade in Central Asia

Aid for Trade programme being implemented by UNDP commenced in v. 2009 covering in the beginning nine countries in Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. During 2009-2013 (phases I-II) th...
9.10.2017

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...
5.10.2017

Capacity Building in the Field of Meteorology

The Finnish Meteorological Institute has implemented a meteorological project with the national institute Tajikhydromet in Tajikistan since 2014. The project is implemented as an inter-institutional co...
5.10.2017

Capacity Building in the Field of Meteorology

The Finnish Meteorological Institute has implemented a meteorological project in Kyrgyz Republic with the National Institute of Kyrgyzhydromet since 2014. The project is implemented as an inter-institu...
22.9.2017

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. This training shoul...
11.9.2017

New Voices New Leaders

Egyptian Women face multiple challenges that hinder their full participation in the domestic and public spheres. This project aims at advancing young women’s leadership roles to become ’tools of trans...
28.8.2017

INT/Consultancy services

The purpose of the financing is to give support services to the unit of sectoral policy for example in the health and social sectors as well as in forestry, water and environmental cooperation and educ...
28.8.2017

Toimialakohtainen kehittämistyö

The funds will be used for the planning and development of sector policies, the development of new instruments and methodologies, advisory and expert services, seminars, conferences and travel, interna...
21.8.2017

Evaluation of the Finnfund Special Risk Financing Instrument

Evaluation of the implementation of the Finnfund Special Risk Instrument 2012-15 in order to inform a possible Cabinet decision on continuing the instrument
17.8.2017

Exploratory study on Myanmar peace process

Myanmar has suffered from ethnic conflicts since its independence in 1948. In October 2015, a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement was signed between the Government and 8 ethnic armed organizations, but numb...
6.7.2017

Forest & Farm Facility

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) and the...
6.7.2017

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

In the year 2017 Finland supports with a sum of 800.000 euro the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Co-operation in the Field of Human Rights (VFTC). Through the fund most of OHCHR's support a...
28.6.2017

AgriCord vzw, The International Alliance of agri-agencies

Agricord is an initiative of professional farmers’ organisations and their cooperative businesses from countries in Europe, Canada; Africa and Asia, bundling their efforts for strengthening their colle...
28.6.2017

CIVICUS:World Alliance for Citizen Participation/DataShift 3.0: Using citizen-generated data to drive people-powered accountability

DataShift is a global, multi-stakeholder initiative that leverages the potential of new technologies for more creative and effective social accountability. It does this by helping civil society organis...
28.6.2017

Geneva Call: Generating and fostering ownership of International Humanitarian Norms in Lebanon (2nd phase)

The aim of this Geneva Call project is generating and fostering ownership of international humanitarian norms in Lebanon through an engagement with influential actors in Lebanon on the protection of ci...
28.6.2017

High-level Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes

The 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 sensi...
28.6.2017

International Planned Parenthood Federation / core funding

It is estimated that 225 million women in developing countries have an unmet need for family planning. Investing in family planning will lower unintended pregnancies and avert unsafe abortions, thereby...
28.6.2017

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...
28.6.2017

Transparency International. Proposal to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland for Core Support in 2017 and 2018

Transparency International (TI) is a global movement with one vision: a world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. Through more than 100 ch...
26.6.2017

Support to women's political participation in Tanzania 2nd phase

The main objective of the project is to promote women's rights especially in regard to societal equality and political empowerment. The means to reach this goal are i.a. legislative reforms, strengthen...
26.6.2017

TAN/Tax Modernisation Programme

With good tax policies and efficient tax collection countries can improve the equality of their country and citizens. In Tanzania the recent economic growth has enabled the tax administration to collec...
26.6.2017

Uongozi Institute, III phase

The Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development (Uongozi Institute) was founded in 2010 as a joint initiative by Finland and Tanzania as a part of the Helsinki process to meet the chall...
22.6.2017

Meta-evaluation of project and programme evaluations 2015-2017

EVA-11 commissions regularly meta-evaluations that assess quality of project and programme evaluations on one hand and aggregate information about Finnish development cooperation based on these evaluat...
21.6.2017

Evaluation on improvement of women’s and girls' rights in Finland's development co-operation

Improvement of women’s and girls' rights has been a priority in Finland's development co-operation for a long time. However, the evaluability assessment reveals, that there are insufficient monitorin...
21.6.2017

The Network of Religious and Traditional Peacemakers

Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, as an informal structure, brings together actors from grassroots level religious and traditional peacemakers to international and intergovernmental or...
16.6.2017

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...
16.6.2017

African Tax Administration Forum - ATAF

African Tax Administration Forum - ATAF (http://www.ataftax.net/en/) is an organisation of Tax Administrations of 38 African countries. It was established in 2009 to promote efficient and effective ta...
16.6.2017

OECD Tax and Development Programme

OECD started in 2013 a large international project to prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) BEPS-package (http://www.oecd.org/tax/beps/) was finalized in 2015 (autumn). The Inclusive Framewor...
15.6.2017

International Crisis Group (ICG)

International Crisis Group is generally recognized as the world’s leading independent non-partisan source of analysis and advice to policymakers on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. The...
15.6.2017

Promotion of Good Governance to Strengthen Integrity and Accountability in Kenya

The objective of the Programme is: service delivery at the national and county level is improved according to principles of good governance (incorruptibility, fairness, efficiency).In order to achieve ...
12.6.2017

Support of Finland to Control Arms

In developing countries, especially in Africa, regional and local conflicts hamper development. Illegal and uncontrolled flows of arms negatively impact security and stability on regional and local lev...
12.6.2017

UNDP's 5. National Evaluation Capacity Conference (NEC5)

The NEC Conference series is part of UNDP/IEO strategy to support the development of national evaluation capacity, but distinguishes itself in that it focuses on supporting the governments with which U...
8.6.2017

INT/Annual payment to the United nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

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...
30.5.2017

Evaluation capacity development

The Finnish government emphasises effectiveness, impact and measurement of results in its development policy. Agenda203 and the SDGs provide an overall framework for development policy and cooperation,...
29.5.2017

Finn Church Aid/Providing access to justice and gender sensitive legal awareness at grass roots level in Liberia

The overall objective of the action is to contribute to the development of local legislation and support the respect of the fundamental human rights of the most vulnerable prisoners in Liberia. The spe...
22.5.2017

Implementing the 10YFP Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme through the 10YFP Trust Fund

The New Urban Agenda(NUA) was approved in the Habitat III conference in 2016. Finland has a high profile in the 10YFP programme on sustainable consumption and production and especially its subprogramme...
12.5.2017

Dialogue Process on Interim Stabilization Measures in Syria

Project facilitates dialogue between Syrian conflict actors on interim stabilization measures. Duration and overall costs: 18 months/approx. 970,000€
12.5.2017

Ministry for Foreing Affairs of Finlands accession as member of U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center

U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center serves its partner agencies and the needs of the member countries development personnel in anti-corruption work. U4 provides counseling services, research and materia...
11.5.2017

OHCHR; Support to the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities

Rights of persons with disabilities are a priority area within the Finnish human rights and development policies. Finland supports the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with di...
28.4.2017

THL- NAPSA Partneship

The Project is an Institutional cooperation between Finnish National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) and Zambian National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA). The overall approach of the Projec...
27.4.2017

UEF-UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

UEF-UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements aims at broadening the participants’ professional perspective as well as increasing interaction between participants with different professional...
7.4.2017

Developing countries' participation to international environmental negotiations and conferences

This support enables experts and officials from developing countries to participate in international environmental meetings, agreement negotiations and expert seminars. Participation of experts and off...
5.4.2017

VIET/Project preparation and monitoring in Vietnam

The implementation of development policy programme in Vietnam has been delegated to the country level to the Embassy of Finland in Hanoi. This includes for example identification, planning, monitoring ...
4.4.2017

Project monitoring of the Unit for Eastern Asia and Oceania

Project monitoring funds of the Unit for Eastern Asia and Oceania (ASA-10) are used for development cooperation project evaluation and monitoring, including final evaluations, audits, reviews and asses...
30.3.2017

Finnish Red Cross

Building urban resilience in Southeast Asia - Cambodia. The project aims at improving the disaster preparedness and resilience of Cambodian communities -especially school environments- through capacity...
30.3.2017

Finnish Red Cross

Increasing Community Based Disaster Preparedness capacities in rural DPRK . The project aims at improving the disaster preparedness and resilience of North Korean communities to deal with floods and d...
30.3.2017

Finnish Red Cross

Improving preparedness for response capacity towards multi-hazard risks in Ulaanbaatar urban areas. The project aims at improving the disaster preparedness and resilience of Mongolian communities thro...
28.3.2017

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...
24.3.2017

Somaliland Health Sector Support (MIDA Finnsom IV)

IOM MIDA Finnsom IV project focuses on contributing to improved health outcomes in Somaliland, and particularly its remote regions. To achieve this, the project supports the capacity of public sector i...
14.3.2017

Save the Children Finland, Prevention, protection and promoting the rights of the children

The overall objective of this project of Save the Children Finland is to secure the safety and future prospects of internally displaced children and their families in Telangana state, India. Thus prov...
6.3.2017

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. As an associate of the UNHCR in Finland, the Council is ...
6.3.2017

Organisational support for UN Association of Finland

The UN Association of Finland is a Non-Governmental Organization that promotes and supports the actions and principles of the United Nations. UNA Finland was founded in 1954. The Association provides e...
16.2.2017

Community strategies for climate-resilient livelihoods

Climate change is an irreversible, long-term shift that poses global risks to socio-economic development, food security and livelihoods. One of the most affected sectors is agriculture, especially in s...
16.2.2017

Community-centered intervention to increase the access to high quality water supplies among ethnic minority groups in Lao Cai

Phase 1, the “hand washing with soap” (HWWS) project was successful in increasing hygienic practices and reducing health-related problems. However, during this project it was noticed that a lack of cle...
16.2.2017

Developing Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in Vietnam through New Partnerships

The need for development in water supply and sanitation sector in Vietnam is great. Government’s role is weakening and support of development assistance decreasing. The role of utilities and the import...
16.2.2017

Empowerment of Aymara-women in the Bolivian Altiplano (continuation)

Our primary objective is to empower women in four Aymara communities. We plan to legally establish four organizations for these women, which will provide them with influence in matters of local adminis...
16.2.2017

Mental Health Programme in Tanzanian Prisons

DEVELOPMENT TARGET The goal is to ensure better psychiatric health for inmates during and after the prison term and furthering their integration back into normal society. DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM In ...
16.2.2017

Strengthening community-based protection in Torotorofotsy Ramsar wetland

In the continuation project phase the protection of the Torotorofotsy Ramsar Wetland will be intensified together with the local communities and environmental administration in the rainforest area of M...
14.2.2017

HAUS/Modern Leadership and Capacity Building in Public Sector (PADOS II) in EU Eastern Partnership Countries

The project Participatory democracy, open governance and efficient e-government services (PADOS) was implemented in the six EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia...
27.1.2017

Hiil hooyo - maternal healthcare project in Somalia

The key development problem is high maternal mortality having multiple negative effects to the local people’s lives and to the development. The project is planned for 6 years, this first phase being 2 ...
20.12.2016

ICI SYKE/GAFRD developing assessment of dredging impacts

The project of the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and the Egyptian partner General Authority for Fish Resources Development GAFRD aims at the improved capacity of GAFRD to monitor the environmental...
15.12.2016

Commissioned studies and analysis

The objective this funding mechanism is to commission research reports, studies or analysis to support strategic planning and political decision-making of the ministry. Themes of the studies or reports...
14.12.2016

Mediation; implementation, planning

Mediation is a priority of Finland's foreign policy. To improve the quality of Finland’s work in terms of Mediation the funds are used for productive preparation of the mediation work, evaluation and m...
13.12.2016

Forestry sector ICI-project

Forests have provided a critically important source of employment and income in Myanmar. However, in recent years deforestation in Myanmar has been very rapid and the rate of deforestation is currently...
13.12.2016

MYA/National Forest Inventory and National Forest Monitoring Information Systems for Myanmar

Myanmar falls within the category of Least developed countries (LDC), but it is endowed with rich natural resources and biodiversity, with about 43 % of its land area covered by forests. However, Myanm...
13.12.2016

Myanmar Decentralized Funding to Schools

Myanmar is the second poorest and second-most fragile country in Asia after Afghanistan. Its educational system is challenged by limited resources and capacities. Myanmar has approximately 11 million s...
13.12.2016

UN Women; Implementing Afghanistan's National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and Related Resolutions

Finland continues to support Afghanistan in implementing Afghanistan’s National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 – Women, Peace, and Security, NAP. Finland and Afghanistan started twinning cooperation on UNSC...
13.12.2016

UNDP/OECD Tax Inspectors Without Borders(TIWB)

The expected results of the OECD/UNDP joint Programme "Tax Inspectors without Borders" are 1) Tax administrations in developing countries are strengthened and 2) Knowledge on strategies to build the ca...
12.12.2016

Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) Trust Fund

Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) entered into force in December 2014. The Treaty underlines the need to prevent and eradicate the illicit trade in conventional arms and to prevent their diversion to the illici...
12.12.2016

Regional Security and Cooperation Conference - University of California Los Angeles

Support to the Regional Security and Cooperation Conference organised by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference offers a confidential and informal multilateral forum to discuss the...
9.12.2016

Academy of Finland, Research for Development

The aim of Finland's development research is to promote development and to find new information and means to solve global development challenges. The objective of the Research for Development programme...
8.12.2016

EBRD Syrian Refugee Response Programme

EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) aims at establishing democratic and free market economies in transit countries. At the London Syria conference in 2016 EBRD pledged 900 MEUR fina...
8.12.2016

Responsible and Innovative Land Administration Project in Etiopia, second phase (REILA II)

The intervention is the second phase of REILA (Responsible and Innovative Land Administration Project) that supports the development of land administration in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the least dev...
8.12.2016

Support to the World Bank research activities

Knowledge for Change Program (KCP) is part of the World Bank’s research activity. Finland has been supporting the Program as well as the World Development Reports (WDR) since 2002 when KCP was founded....
7.12.2016

Africa, Finnish Tax Administration's Technical Assistance to African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF)

The work on global tax agenda, also from developing countries perspective, is getting increasing attention. One of the most effective forms of support identified is the provision of technical expertise...
1.12.2016

INGO/International union of forest research organizations (IUFRO)

The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) has a recognized status as an advocate for the international cooperation in forest research and as an educator of research institutions ...
30.11.2016

1325 - "Women, Peace and Security" implementation; planning

Finland has a long history of promoting gender equality and in 2008, was one of the first countries to adopt a National Action Plan to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and...
30.11.2016

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 addresses the ke...
30.11.2016

HALO/Humanitarian Mine Action in Afghanistan

HALO will conduct manual mine clearance in the areas of Afghanistan most seriously affected by mines and Unexploded Remnants of War. During previous years, HALO has cleared especially grazing land in A...
30.11.2016

HALO/Humanitarian Mine Action in Somalia

HALO’s project will support and strengthen Somalia’s security, stability and development through humanitarian mine action and stockpile destruction. HALO’s project seeks to 1) contribute to the human s...
30.11.2016

HALO/Humanitarian Mine Action in Ukraine

HALO’s community-centred clearance programme will support vulnerable populations affected by mines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) close to the conflict line in Eastern Ukraine during 2017-2018. Th...
30.11.2016

International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)

The International Aid Transparency Initiative aims to deliver a step shift in public availability and accessibility of information on aid flows and activities, globally. It does this by bringing togeth...
30.11.2016

Syrian Voices: Exploring inclusive solutions for peace in Syria by European Institute of Peace (EIP). Phase II, 2016-2018

Project aims at contributing to peace process in Syria by facilitating regular dialogues between relevant national and regional stakeholders and supporting the work of UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistu...
30.11.2016

UNESCO IPDC programme evaluation

UNESCO's IPDC is an intergovernmental programme for development communication. Finland participates the costs of the evaluation of the programme with 38 000 euros.
28.11.2016

FRC/ICRC/Humanitarian Mine Action in Ukraine

In Ukraine the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works with communities in front-line and buffer zones to help them reduce the risk of mines and explosive remnants of war. ICRC supports ...
28.11.2016

GICHD/Humanitarian Demining

Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining supports national authorities, international and regional organisations and NGOs in their efforts to implement more efficient and effective humanit...
28.11.2016

MAG/Humanitarian Mine Action in Iraq and Syria

Mines Advisory Group's (MAG) project will deploy a combined, regional response to mitigate the systematic threat from contamination as a result of ISIL activities in both Iraq and Syria. Improvised exp...
28.11.2016

No Lost Generation - support to education in Jordan and Syria through UNICEF

Finland has financed the No Lost Generation (NLG) initiative through UNICEF in Lebanon (5 MEUR, 2014) and Turkey (2,5 MEUR, 2015). In 2016 an additional contribution of 5 MEUR will be channeled evenly ...
28.11.2016

Support to Afghanistan Livelihoods and Alternatives to Migration, SALAM

The Support to Afghanistan Livelihoods and Alternatives to Migration (SALAM) is a joint programme of UNDP, ILO and UNHCR in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabl...
28.11.2016

UNMAS/Humanitarian Mine Action in Afghanistan

UNMAS’ project will build on Finland's long history of support to the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan (MAPA) through supporting the coordination of the MAPA over twelve months. The continued finan...
28.11.2016

UNMAS/Humanitarian Mine Action in Iraq

UNMAS is implementing a multi-year (2017-2019) programme which will address the IED problem in areas newly retaken from ISIL occupation. Support is urgently required to scale up the explosive hazard r...
23.11.2016

Finland's Participation in the 14th Replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-14)

African Development Fund (ADF), which is part of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), provides grant assistant and concessional loans to the poorest and most fragile countries of the continent. P...
23.11.2016

IDA-18 (The Eighteenth Replenishment of the International Development Association IDA )

As the world's premier fund for the poorest, IDA is uniquely positioned to help countries realize the international community's far reaching and ambitious development agenda set for 2030. Deliberate ac...
18.11.2016

Project planning and evaluation

Wider European Initiative includes development cooperation projects in Eastern European, Southern Caucasian and Central Asian countries.
17.11.2016

OCEANIA UNSPECIFIED/Adapting to climate change in Oceania/S-E Asia

The Project provides National Meteorological Services of the Pacific Island Countries more capacity and tools to deliver and communicate accurate, appropriate and timely weather and climate services to...
16.11.2016

IUCN-Finland Framework agreement

IUCN is a globally unique actor in the conservation of biodiversity and in enhancing nature-based solutions and good environmental management. The Framework agreement between Finland and IUCN supports ...
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