Unit for Humanitarian Assistance and Policy
The Unit for Humanitarian Assistance is responsible for the following issues:
- planning of humanitarian assistance and decisions concerning granting of assistance
- monitoring of crises and follow-up of assistance activities
- humanitarian assistance via international aid organisations, and Finnish non-governmental organisations
- coordination of humanitarian assistance in the EU and the UN and with other donor countries
- KEO-70@gov.fi
Phone
- +358 295 350 000
Personnel
Lauratuulia Lehtinen
Director
- +358 295 350 184
Katariina Tervakangas
Counsellor
Desk Officer
Deputy Head of Unit, coordination of UN humanitarian aid, OCHA, Cerf, UNHCR, IHL
- +358 295 350 954
Sanna Ahvo
Special assignment
WFP (excl. school meals), Sudan
- +358 295 350 926
Reetta Delás Näsi
Attaché
Desk Officer
UNRWA organisational responsibility, COHAFA, EU coordination of humanitarian affairs
- +358 295 350 683
Jaakko Jakkila
Special assignment
ICRC, IFRC political organisational responsibility (excl. DSG Chairmanship), Gaza, Middle East
- +358 295 350 489
Renne Klinge
Senior Adviser
Global migration issues, IOM
- Renne.Klinge@gov.fi
- +358 295 350 274
Lotta Mäkelä
Desk Officer
Ukraine, Finnish non-governmental organisations, ICRC and IFRC financing, communications
- +358 295 350 941
Marikki Rieppola
Special assignment
School meals Coalition, Call to Action, Afghanistan, Horn of Africa, humanitarian support for KEO-40 organisations as necessary (UNICEF, UN Women, UNFPA)
- +358 295 350 125
Niklas Saxen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
Thematic work, ICRC DSG Chairmanship, Grand Bargain, basket funds
- +358 295 350 519
- +358 50 591 6053
E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@gov.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.