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30.6.2011

Annual report: Finland's Development Cooperation 2010
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16.5.2011

Publication: Footprints in Forests – Effects and Impacts of Finnish Forestry Assistance

This book aims to make a contribution to understanding why it has been easier to draft and pass forest and forestry policies than to implement them, and why forestry assistance supporting the new policies is so complex and its impacts are so often contradictory.
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13.4.2011

Report: Broad-based Financing for Development

Changes in the international operating environment – such as climate change, economic, food and energy crises, and other global security threats – have stepped up the debate on both the goals of development policy and the future of development financing.
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17.3.2011

Brochure: Supporting Democracy – The Finnish Experience

Finland applies a holistic approach to democracy. Democracy is inextricably associated to human rights, rule of law, good governance and to anti-corruption. Democracy is more than civil and political rights, it is also about economic, social and cultural rights. Due to historical circumstances, differences in cultures, and stage of development, democracy is practiced in diverse forms around the world. Many democracies face challenges with issues such as gender, corruption, law and order.
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21.2.2011

Broschure: Women and Gender Equality in Finnish Development Cooperation

In line with Finland’s rights based approach to development, gender equality is a goal in itself.
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15.12.2010

Brochure: Information Society, Technology and Innovation in Finnish Development Cooperation

This leaflet contains information about how Finland promotes the use of ICT in the development cooperation.
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25.11.2010

Guidelines for Civil Society in Development Policy

Civil society actors are an essential and integral element of Finnish development cooperation in its entirety. The activities of civil society organizations make it possible to achieve results in areas and regions and among groups of people that the resources and tools of public development cooperation do not always reach.
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15.10.2010

Publication: Development policy guidelines on agriculture and food security

Food security has become one of the most important issues in international development policy. These guidelines set out the areas of operation in which Finnish expertise and resources can bring about sustainable results in improving food security and fostering agricultural development in developing countries.
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23.8.2010

Finland's Development Cooperation 2009
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30.7.2010

Foreign Ministry’s draft budget for 2011

In its draft budget for 2011 submitted to the Ministry of Finance on May 14, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs proposes that its administrative branch be allocated a total of 1,278.3 million euros.
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10.6.2010

Brochure: The Energy and Environment Partnership Program (EEP)
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28.5.2010

Exploring the Security-Development Nexus - Perspectives from Nepal, Northern Uganda and Sugango

This Report charts out the possibilities for and the challenges posed by outside interventions in conflict and post-conflict situations in the global South.
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23.4.2010

General Budget Support and Sector Budget Support

The present policy paper supports implementation of the Government’s Development Policy Programme (Government Decision-in-Principle 2007), responding to its assignment of considering the share of budget support in Finland’s development cooperation.
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16.3.2010

Publication: Wider Europe Initiative – Implementation Plan for 2009–2013

The Wider Europe Initiative is a new initiative that strengthens Finland’s development policy through a comprehensive approach to Finland’s development cooperation in the European Union’s eastern neighbourhood, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.
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1.3.2010

Publication: Development and Security in Finland's Development Policy

The Government’s Development Policy Programme emphasises social stability and comprehensive security as the cornerstone for all development. Poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable development, in addition to responding to the challenges of comprehensive security, conflict prevention, crisis management and peacebuilding, require a holistic approach.
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15.2.2010

Brochure: Climate change and gender

The worst impacts of climate change will be on the poorest regions and the poorest people, who have the fewest resources for meeting the changes brought by increasing droughts, fl oods or storms. As many as 70 per cent of these poor people are women.
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22.1.2010

Western Balkans - Finland's Development Policy Framework Programme for the years 2009-2013

The purpose of this Framework Programme is to steer the implementation of the Finnish development policy and development cooperation in the Western Balkans until 2013.
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10.11.2009

Publication: Finnish development policy guidelines for environment 2009

The aim of environmental policy is to illustrate how development policy is operationalised within the environmental sector.
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2.10.2009

Publication: International strategy for Finland’s Water Sector

The aim of this strategy is to increase international cooperation and the impact of Finnish actors in the water sector by identifying broad themes under which the water sector in particular could operate. At the same time, the strategy aims to defi ne clear objectives and means to increase international cooperation and partnerships.
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2.10.2009

Publication: Development Policy Guidelines for Forest Sector

Finnish development policy guidelines for forest sector supporting the operationalisation of Finland’s Development Policy Programme (Government Resolution 2007).
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2.10.2009

Elements for Discussion: Sustainable Futures

Sustainable Futures presents the results of a worldwide search for sustainable cultures: past, present and future. A sustainable culture is understood as one that incorporates environmental sustainability and promotes human dignity for all.
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15.9.2009

Publication: Africa in Finnish Development Policy - Finland's development policy framework programme

The objective of Finland’s development policy framework programme for Africa is to create a strategic framework for strengthening partnership between Finland and Africa through development policy measures. The Africa framework programme is based on the Government’s Development Policy Programme and steers its practical implementation.
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15.9.2009

Publication: There is a Map Behind All Development

This publication presents the Finnish high-tech expertise on mapping and geographic information systems with special focus on developing countries.
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7.8.2009

Finland's Development Cooperation 2008
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3.8.2009

Draft budget of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for 2010
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9.6.2009

Elements for Discussion: Rethinking Development in a Carbon-Constrained World

This book brings forward some challenges arising from the prevailing development paradigms in the context of climate change.
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2.6.2009

Brochure: Women's Participation will be Important for Influencing Climate Change

Brochure tells about the Call for Action on Climate Change and Gender adopted by the International Colloquium on Women’s Leadership in Monrovia, Liberia, March 2009.
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31.3.2009

Publication: Making forests fit for climate change

Julkaisu: Making forests fit for climate change : A global view of climate-change on forests and people and options for adaption
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12.1.2009

Publication: Multilateral Cooperation in Finland's Development Policy
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23.9.2008

Publication: Finland’s Aid for Trade Action Plan (2008–2011)
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22.9.2008

Finnish Development Cooperation in 2007
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1.8.2008

Draft budget of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for 2009
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21.5.2008

Elements for Discussion: Corruption, Poverty and Gender
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27.3.2008

Elements for Discussion: Aid for Trade: from policies to practice
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17.3.2008

Publication: Exporting to Finland
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31.10.2007

Brochure: Political Youth Organisations: Strengthening the Voice of Youth in Politics - The Finnish Experience
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18.10.2007

Development policy programme 2007
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6.8.2007

Publication: Fire Management on Rural Lands in Burkina Faso - a Community-based Approach
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3.8.2007

Draft budget of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for 2008
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31.5.2007

Julkaisu: Grassroots comics - a development communication tool
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11.5.2007

Publication: Comics with an Attitude
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6.2.2007

Brochure: From Disaster to Development – Life after catastrophes and conflicts
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6.2.2007

Elements for discussion: Comprehensive Social Policies for Development in a Globalizing World
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25.1.2007

Publication: Finnish Development Policy Guidelines for the Health Sector
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4.1.2007

NGO Development Cooperation Guidelines
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22.12.2006

Brochure: Women’s Role in Finnish Democracy Building – The Finnish Experience
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7.12.2006

Elements for discussion: Development in Africa through Governance and Partnerships
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27.11.2006

Elements for Discussion: Conflict Prevention, Management and Reduction in Africa
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17.10.2006

Brochure: Finland and Nicaragua – Partnership for Poverty Reduction
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27.7.2006

Draft budget of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for 2007
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