Objectives monitored by OECD

Participatory development/Good governance
20.5.2013

Village Community Empowerment Phase II

Village Community Empowerment Phase II continues the awareness and advocacy work with underprivileged Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the rural communities of Bijoliya, Rajasthan. The project ...
15.5.2013

Evaluation of the Finland's support to the Higher Education Institutions - North-South-South and HEI ICI

The evaluation focuses on Finland's support to Higher Education Institutions and includes the evaluation of North-South-South programme (NSS) and the Higher Education Institutions Institutional Coopera...
15.5.2013

Sinsibere – Combating desertification with women’s sustainable livelihoods

The Sinsibere project supports the women in rural communities South of Bamako to develop their resilience to climate change and to protect their environment. This is done by supporting alternative sour...
8.5.2013

Support for Trade Mark East Africa

Support to Trade Mark East Africa, which is a non-profit Aid for Trade institution.
7.5.2013

Promotion of the work concerning democracy, good governance and stability of the eastern partnership of the EU

The focus of the Wider European initiative (WEI) 2014 - 2017 is the promotion of human rights and a democratic and responsible society. This objective is pursued a by supporting the thematic block of d...
6.5.2013

Strengthening East African political and economical integration

Support to EAC (East African Community) Partnership Fund. EAC is an organisation between governments of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
24.4.2013

UNU-WIDER twinning with AERC

Englanniksi: UNU-WIDER has established a twinning partnership with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), based in Nairobi, Kenya. The purpose of the partnership is to promote collaboration b...
23.4.2013

Visits to Finland by journalists from developing countries

The project aims at identifying opportunities to invite journalists from developing countries to participate in courses, seminars and individual press tours to fulfill the objectives described above. T...
19.4.2013

Capacity Building for Disaster Prevention in Rural Maya Communities

Reduction of impacts of natural catastrophes and creation of systematic crisis prevention and disaster preparedness in the area.
12.4.2013

UN Women/Core funding

Core funding to support UN Women (UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women).
10.4.2013

Increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the international organisations in Africa and related to Africa

Increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of development cooperation by participating into international development forums and international development conferences of relevant organisations (incl. ...
9.4.2013

Governance for Sustainability: Developing a Natural Resource Governance Framework

Immediate purpose of providing an independent, robust, and credible approach to ascertaining the strengths and weaknesses of natural resource governance, including both decision-making and implementati...
8.4.2013

Demo Finland, Political Parties of Finland for Democracy, program 2013-2015

Demo Finland is an ideologically, party-politically and religiously neutral organisation that arranges collaboration between officially registered Finnish parliamentary parties. Demo Finland works to p...
5.4.2013

Project preparation in Mekong

The funds are dedicated for the Finnish Embassy in Bangkok to perform identification, preparation, monitoring and steering, and evaluation of development cooperation interventions, as well as other tas...
2.4.2013

Promotion of Youth Employment and Sustainable Development

This project aims at improving the possibilities of disadvantaged youth in the area of Simões Filho through vocational training in ICT, environmental issues and training in life skills. The duration is...
28.3.2013

DEEEP4 - Citizens empowerment for global justice

National contribution to an EU-funded project, lead by Kehys ry. This is a european project which aims to strengthening the European civil society as an initiator to a social change in order to achieve...
27.3.2013

Quick Impact Projects in Lebanon

Quick Impact Projects in Lebanon support local governance and the development of local communities and villages in Southern Lebanon, which is still suffering from the damage caused by the 2006 conflict...
27.3.2013

VÄLIME/Preparation and assessment

Finland's support to North Africa and the Middle East has been doubled for the period of 2012-2015 and several new projects have been started and some of the old ones are continuing. Finland's long ti...
26.3.2013

Project planning and evaluation

Wider European Initiative (WEI) includes development cooperation projects in Eastern European, Southern Caucasian and Central Asian countries. Planning of WEI II (2014-17) focuses mainly on the poorest...
25.3.2013

UEF-UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements

The Ministry has been funding the Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreement that has been organized by the University of Eastern Finland in collaboration with UNEP. Due to the change of the legal ...
21.3.2013

Gender and Mediation Training; pl. 1325

Promoting women’s effective participation in conflict mediation and addressing women’s specific needs in peacemaking and electoral assistance are part of DPA’s core mandate. However, in spite many glob...
13.3.2013

Implementation of the OECD/DAC Peer review recommendations through actions related to strengthening of PCD and staff & systems development

OECD/DAC carries out peer reviews of the member states' development policy and cooperation. The peer review of the Finnish development policy and cooperation in 2012 lead to recommendations in various ...
13.3.2013

Voluntary contribution for OECD horizontal work on Policy Coherence for Development

MFA provides a voluntary contribution to support the horizontal work on Policy Coherence for Development (PCD). The support is channelled through the PCD unit that operates within the office of the Sec...
11.3.2013

UNDP/Vuosiavustus

Contribution to the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) regular resources . UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis and drive and sust...
8.3.2013

FNBEs Support Services for Education Sector Cooperation in Nepal

Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) is to provide substantive support in planning, follow-up and analysis to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in relation to the development of education sector i...
7.3.2013

Project preparation in Asian countries

Project preparation fund is used for planning, preparation and monitoring purposes of projects in Asia and Oceania.
6.3.2013

IUCN-Finland Framework agreement

Framework agreement between Finland and IUCN will strengthen developing countries' capacity to integrate environmental objectives into development programmes, in particular in areas/sector where Finlan...
19.2.2013

INT/Environmental Conventions; developing countries participation

to support the participation of Developing Country representatives in the meetings of international environmental conventions
19.2.2013

JPO/UNV Programme

JPO/UNV Programme, Recruitment of associate experts, UNVs and multilateral experts to international organizations.
19.2.2013

Peace and Development in Finland's Development Cooperation

The purpose of the evaluation is to provide information on how Finnish development cooperation has supported poverty reduction and strengthened peace and development in fragile states. The evaluation t...
18.2.2013

ALF

The Anna Lindh Euro-Meditarranean Foundation for the Dialogue of Culture started its operation in 2005 with the purpose of promoting peaceful development and economic cooperation by increasing dialogue...
14.2.2013

UN/Development Group Office (UNDGO)

Providing support to the UN Development operations Co-ordination Office UNDOCO (formerly known as UNDGO) for strengthing UN coordination and reform at the country level. UNDOCO aims at enhancing cohere...
13.2.2013

INT/UN Desertification Convention; Finland's assessed contribution

Finland's assessed contribution to the budget of the UN Convention on Desertification UNCCD
7.2.2013

Kofi Annan Foundation

The Kofi Annan Foundation is an independent non-profit organization, legally incorporated in Switzerland in 2007 by Mr. Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN. The purpose and the mission of th...
5.2.2013

INT/Global Women Deliver 2013 Consultation Process

Women Deliver is engaged in global advocacy work to promote women's equality and the achievement of MDG5. The organisation will organize a global conference on maternal health in May 2013, with the aim...
5.2.2013

REG/Improving West-African Capacities in Mediation and Peace Process

The project aims to contribute to West-African capacity-building in conflict prevention through the creation of a training programme for multi-track mediation and conflict analysis targeting key decisi...
5.2.2013

Strengthening of cross-cutting themes in the work of the South Centre

South Centre (SC) is a joint "think-tank" of developing country governments. It supports the negotiators of developing country governments by providing them with research and background information on ...
28.1.2013

The Final Evaluation of Nicaragua´s Bilateral Programmes/ Agriculture

The bilateral programmes between Finland and Nicaragua are ending by the end of the year 2012. The final evaluation of the programmes is conducted in three thematic areas which are covering several pro...
17.1.2013

Center of Excellence for Transformational Partnerships

German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is seeking to launch a Center of Excellence for Transformational Partnerships. The Center will be a catalytic knowledge hub to scale up learning and the ...
15.1.2013

NAPTIP-Training and exchange of information; visit of Nigerian experts to Finland

NAPTIP (National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters) organizes a training visit to Finland for Nigerian experts. Finnish Boarder Guards together with other Fin...
10.1.2013

ELCT - ECD Social Justice Programme

The project aims at capacity building of Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Church ELCT-ECD to respond the current social challenges of urban vulnerable and marginalised Tanzanians in Dar es Salaam and coa...
10.1.2013

Luth. Churches Diakonia and social justice program

Improve the capacity of the Lutheran Churches in Botswana (ELCSA-BD, ELCB) in diaconal involvement, to carry their social responsibility applying the rights-based approach. In phase II the aim is to lo...
10.1.2013

NA/Platform for social advocacy and community mobilisation

The project aims to effectively mobilise Namibian domestic resources for more equal development and rights-based approach by applying participatory methods in vulnerable communities. Awareness and capa...
10.1.2013

REG/Support to OAS

The support to the Organization of American States (OAS) is allocated instead of the core funding to the projects which are in line with the Finnish development policy and specialized priority objectiv...
10.1.2013

Support to the socially marginalised communities in the Southern Afric

African sovieties are challenged by serious problems i.e. shortage of food, health, unemployment, hiv/aids, ecological issues, instability, urbanuzation, violence and xenophobia. Activities are impleme...
8.1.2013

Storytent in AFRICA I

Story Tent is a project, that will give voice to the voiceless. It is basically simple, but at the same time demanding project, where a movable studio - a tent - will be taken to the places where ordin...
28.12.2012

Andean Regional Energy and Environment Partnership Programme (EEP)

Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) in the Andean Region (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia) is a partnership programme to promote the use of the renewable energy resources and clean technologie...
28.12.2012

INT/Support to INTOSAI

The aim of the project is to develop the capacity and audit activities of Supreme Audit Institutions in developing countries. The finnish aid is channelled through the INTOSAI -IDI -Initiative, which s...
28.12.2012

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project-Western Nepal, Completion Phase

RWSSP Completion Phase will continue support to advance rural water supply and sanitation in western Nepal. Nepal's national goal is to reach total clean water and sanitation coverage by 2017. Access t...
28.12.2012

Support programme for the Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio); BioFISA phase II

African Biosciences Initiative (ABI) has been established by NEPAD. Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio) is one of four ABI-networks. The Government of Finland and the Government of South ...
28.12.2012

Uongozi Institute, II phase

The Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development (also known as Uongozi Institute) was founded in 2010 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Institute represents a new strategic cooperation be...
27.12.2012

Capacity Building of the Regional Government of Madre de Dios to handle and solve the problems of informal artisanal and small scale mining

The Regional Government of Madre de Dios needs capacity building in administering and coordinating the local mining activities including the fast expanding informal, small scale and artisanal mining. ...
27.12.2012

Central America Security Strategy / Prevention of violence against women in Central America

Support to the Prevention of Violence in Central America as part of the Central American Security Strategy (ESCA)
27.12.2012

European Humanities University (EHU)

The European Humanities University (EHU) is a private, non-profit liberal arts university founded in Minsk in 1992. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the university has been based in Vilnius,...
27.12.2012

Geological Survey of Finland's support to AGS

Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) strengthens the capabilities of the Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS) in the prospecting for ore. It has been estimated that Afghanistan has very large potential mi...
27.12.2012

INT/Associate Expert Program

Personal assistance through multilateral channels and building up a Finnish human resource base for international assignments, thus supporting the UN Reform. Finland supports the recruitment of young...
27.12.2012

INT/Framework agreement 2005-2006

Plan Finland is committed to supporting health, education, child protection and resource mobilisation projects in developing countries, raise awareness within Finnish society about child poverty issues...
27.12.2012

Making agriculture part of the solution to climate change-Building

The project aims at enabling developing countries to better realize the opportunities of climate change mitigation in agriculture while improving food security and increasing resilience of farming syst...
27.12.2012

North-South-South Higher Education Exchange Programme/CIMO

North-South-South - programme is a higher education exchange network programme between Finnish and developing countries' higher education institutions. The goal of the programme is to enhance human cap...
27.12.2012

PALES (Gaza)Pegase

PEGASE is the European mechanism launched in 2008 by the European Commission. The aim of PEGASE was primarily to support the goals of state building by contributing to the aims of the Palestine Reform ...
27.12.2012

Reconstruction of Somalia

The support is channeled to Somalia through CDRD (Community-Driven Recovery and Development) co-fund that supports Somali reconstruction and development. Reconstruction and stabilization and capacity b...
27.12.2012

Strengthening National Capacities to Prevent and Address Violence Against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

The project aims at preventing and addressing violence against women as part of UNODC's programme that pomotes reform in crime prevention and criminal justice. By brining gender dimention as an integra...
27.12.2012

Support to the implementation of UN Women's country programme for Kenya

Finland supports the implementation of UN Women's country strategy for Kenya with 1,7 million euros in 2013.
27.12.2012

UN Women

Contribution to UN Women (UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) regular resources. The General Assembly adopted a resolution on 2 July 2010 on system-wide coherence, establishing...
27.12.2012

UN/Development Group Office (UNDGO)

Providing support to the UN Development operations Co-ordination Office UNDOCO (formerly known as UNDGO) for strengthing UN coordination and reform at the country level. UNDOCO aims at enhancing cohere...
27.12.2012

UNESCO Project Promoting Freedem of Expression

The proposed programme aims to support freedom of expression and the role of free, independent and pluralistic media in advancing democratic transition and development, citizen participation, respect ...
21.12.2012

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

Finland provides financial support to the Law and Order Trust Fund (LOTFA) established by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2002. LOTFA has been the most important funding channel supp...
21.12.2012

CPR/Justice sector cooperation

Strengthening China's development in the field of rule of law with Chinese judicial sector counterparts in the provinces of Jiangsu and Heilongjiang. The project aims to strenthen China's development i...
21.12.2012

North-South Entrepreneurship for Development

HK 2010:Tentative activities of the project include: needs assessment of the NCCI regional offices; research and planning related to cultural diversity and innovation policies from the point of view of...
21.12.2012

Support to EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF)

Finland supports the Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership under its Action Area 4: Technology, Innovation and Capacity Development which aims at developing the nex...
21.12.2012

URT/Poverty Reduction Budget Support Facility

To support the implementation of Tanzanian National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA, MKUZA) with General Budget Support (GBS).
19.12.2012

NA/Promoting Women Entrepreneurship (PWEN)

The objective of the project is to strengthen the women's entrepreneurship and this way the women's position in the society. The aim of the project is also to create jobs and to reduce poverty in the c...
18.12.2012

Support to the Human Rights and Business (IHRB)

The premise of the Institute´s work is that economic, ecological and social sustainability needs to be underpinned by respect for the inherent dignity of humankind and the rights embodied in the Univer...
17.12.2012

INGO/International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRTC) is a health-based umbrella organisation that supports the rehabilitation of torture victims and the prevention of torture worldwide. ...
17.12.2012

KV.RAH.LAIT/Partnership agreement IDB

Finnish Technical Assistance Fund includes fifnancing innovative studies and technical co-operation in the fields of education, health, social wellbeing and productivity, good governance, forestry and ...
17.12.2012

Support to the Open Aid Partnership in 2012

Finland joined the World Bank Institute administered Open Aid Partnership in 2011 in Busan. The Partnership aims at ensuring that information on all ODA funded projects and their objectives will be op...
11.12.2012

INT/AfDB-consulting fund

Finland's bilateral fund at the African Development Bank
7.12.2012

Black Sea Peacebuilding Network

This initiative is a continuation project that engages leading think-tanks and NGOs from Armenia, Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan to motor a Black Sea regional network on peacebuilding with linkages at...
7.12.2012

Facilitating Inter-ethnic statebuilding dialogue for building conf

The project will contribute to the peaceful reformation of South Sudan´s statehood after the independence. This is to be achieved through a bottom-up process for confedence building dialogue surroundin...
7.12.2012

Facilitating Inter-ethnic statebuilding dialogue for building conf

The project will contribute to the peaceful reformation of South Sudan´s statehood after the independence. This is to be achieved through a bottom-up process for confedence building dialogue surroundin...
7.12.2012

Governance out of a Box – Population Registration in Liberia

This application builds on the initial project for GooB which received support for 2009 to 2011 and seeks additional funding for only 1 year. The overall objective of the project is to improve the gove...
7.12.2012

LIR/Support to CSA in strenghtening planning capacity of the Liberian

The aim of this project is to improve the planning capacity of Liberian public administration through the application of EA-methodology tool. In the preparatory phase CMI and CSA will meet with differe...
7.12.2012

Mediation and gender based iolence

The absence of women from peace negotiations and insufficient expertise on gender-based violence (GBV) in peace mediation teams limit the success of peace processes. In 2010, CMI and the West Africa Ne...
7.12.2012

Mediation and gender based violence

The purpose of the project is to increase professional practice in addressing gender based violence in peace building processes with geographic focus on West Africa. Through collection and analysis of ...
7.12.2012

Resolving ethnic conflict in Burma: Arakan State

The Muslim Rohingyas of Burma’s western Arakan State must count as one of the most deprived, abused and repressed peoples in the world. Denied citizenship, they are officially stateless – without home...
7.12.2012

Strengthening the planning capacity of the Liberian Public Administration (Phase II)

The project continues the work of the first phase (2011-2012) of the project which aim is support the Liberian governance reform planning. During 2011 and 2012 the Governance Architecture (GA) model ha...
7.12.2012

Supporting subnational approaches of political reintegration in Af

CMI is seeking for possibilities to facilitate a dialogue process with structured groups of representatives from different sections of Afghan society, who may not have yet had their say in defining the...
7.12.2012

Supporting subnational approaches of political reintegration in Af

CMI is seeking for possibilities to facilitate a dialogue process with structured groups of representatives from different sections of Afghan society, who may not have yet had their say in defining the...
7.12.2012

YEM/Supporting State-Tribe Dialogue

The goal is to stabilise the country through strengthening the government and involving civil society. This is done by opening a state-tribal dialogue and this way enhancing mutual trust. CMI and PY ma...
4.12.2012

EU/Mobilizing Youth for Gender Equality in Politics

Discrimination and unequal share of power are considered the major bottleneck for democracy in Nepal. Discrimination has restricted women and members of other marginalized groups from equal access to t...
4.12.2012

INGO/PANOS Network

The MFA supports Panos Network, consisting of 8 regional Institutes. They use communication partnerships to enhance sustainable development and eradication of poverty and work with media to promote par...
3.12.2012

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, materials and traini...
30.11.2012

Supporting the work of a gender adviser at the regional Office

Finland has started supporting the work of a gender adviser at the regional Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR located in Beirut in year 2010. Adviser's work aims to enhance and por...
27.11.2012

Finnish Red Cross

National contribution to an EU-funded project. The project focuses on regional disaster preparedness activities in Caribbean. The project aim is to reduce the number of deaths, injuries and impact from...
26.11.2012

Empowering the young by art in El Alto, Bolivia

The project aims at increasing the wellbeing of the young indigenous people who have moved from rural areas to the city of El Alto, and raising issues of rural-urban migration to improve cultural equal...
26.11.2012

Functional literacy and language training for adult refugees at Nakivale refugee settlement

Main goal of the project is to decline poverty among 60 000 refugees in Nakivale settlement. Low education level and illiteracy that are common among refugees. Inflict poverty by low self-esteem and l...
26.11.2012

Support for investigative journalism in Nicaragua

In Nicaragua environmental trade-related problems have been increasing last years nationwide.Many projects presented by the government, like building an inter-oceanic canal or giving concessions to exp...
26.11.2012

SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-HIMALAYAN REGION OF INDIA - Phase II

The continuation project is based on the results of the pilot project of the year 2011 -2012. In this on-going project the focus is on women as it has been seen that it is the women who have taken res...
26.11.2012

Sustainable livelihoods for farmers in Sulawesi

The Sustainable Livelihoods for Farmers in Sulawesi –project will be carried out by the Student Union of the University of Helsinki and Payo-Payo in 2013-2015. The project is the continuation of a prev...
26.11.2012

Training and support for urban refugees in Kampala

The development problem that the project aims to alleviate is poverty defined as lack of certain minimal or basic capacities needed for generating human well-being. The overall objective of the project...
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