Special target groups


26.2.2014

MOZ Programming I 2014

The Finnish Development Aid Programme in Mozambique in 2013 is 21 783 000 euros and 24 393 000 euros in 2014. The Support to Mozambique consists of general budget support, education sector (FASE), the ...
12.2.2014

Crimea Policy Dialogue

The objective of the project is to establish a sustainable institutionalized mechanism for early warning and prevention of violent conflict aiming at systematic transformation of social, political, cul...
31.12.2013

ND Conference, Beyond Mediation: Authentic National Dialogues - Reflecting on Emerging and On-Going National Dialogue Processes

The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Common Space Initiative (CSI), Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM), UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), and other partners are jointl...
18.12.2013

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

Finland supports gender equality in Kenya by means of supporting the implementation of UN Women's country strategy for Kenya that contributes to the equality and well-being of the Kenyan society. It h...
17.12.2013

Financial support to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, AIHRC

Continuation of financial support to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in 2014-16 with yearly contribution of 400 000 euros. The AIHRC, founded on the Afghan constitution, is ...
13.12.2013

AfDF-13

- During the Thirteenth Replenishment consultations of the African Development Fund (AfDF-13) the Bank and the donor countries made decisions about the strategic and operational priorities of the AfDF-...
12.12.2013

UNHCR Confidence Building Measure

Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1282 of 1999 and subsequent resolutions, UNHCR has been promoting Confidence Building Measures (CBM), in cooperation with Morocco and the POLISARIO and the su...
12.12.2013

UNODC, Regional Programme for Promoting Counter Narcotics Efforts in Afghanistan and Neighbouring Countries 2011-2014

Finland supports UNODC Regional Programme for Promoting Counter Narcotics Efforts in Afghanistan & Neighbouring Countries (2011-2014). The Programme promotes cooperation between Afghanistan and its nei...
12.12.2013

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...
11.12.2013

MYA/Geology ICI

Reduction of poverty, protection of the environment and promotion of equality, democracy and human rights are fundamental goals for sustainable development. In this context the mineral sector has a con...
11.12.2013

Safe Food Safe Dairy -Phase 2 (SFSD-2)

Second phase of the cooperation between MTT Agrifood Research Finland and Department of Public Health, University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya. The purpose of the project is to strenghten the capasity of Uo...
11.12.2013

Support to the Africa programme of the Rights and Resources Initiative

The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is a global coalition of 13 organizations that was established in 2005 to accelerate reforms in land and forest tenure and governance in Africa, Asia and Latin...
4.12.2013

INT/UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons With Disabilities UNPRPD

It is estimated that more than a billion people - about 15 % of the world's population - live with some form of disability. They experience higher rates of poverty, less legal protection, lower educati...
3.12.2013

One-UN social Protection Floor-Initiative

The UN-Reform is moving towards the goal of "Delivering as One": A large number of UN agencies and other multi- and bilateral agencies are coordinating their support to the build-up of national social ...
2.12.2013

Global Review ’Building Accountability for National and Regional Implementation of UNSC Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security’ (1325)

In its role coordinating the UN’s implementation of the women, peace and security agenda, UN Women will organize an international meeting to review the conditions under which NAPs have advanced impleme...
2.12.2013

ILO/Decent and Safe Jobs in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

In the framework of "Wider Europe Initiative" International Labour Office ILO has been implementing in 2010-2013 a project "From the Crisis towards Decent and Safe Jobs in Southern Caucasus and Centr...
29.11.2013

Widening Access to Justice for Legal Empowerment in the Kyrgyz Republic

Rule of Law Project of the UNDP Country Office in Kyrgyzstan that will cover years 2014-2017 and is a follow-up project for an earlier Judicial Sector Support Facility in Central Asia (Equal before the...
19.11.2013

INGO/Inter Press Service (IPS)

IPS is an international organization with a global news agency is at the core with over 400 journalists in 145 countries. IPS provides news in 20 languages focusing on dev (Inter Press Service) elopmen...
19.11.2013

Palestinian Peace Coalition – Geneva Initiative

The project's objective is to bolster public support for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine and thus encourage the leadership and public of both parties to undertake the necessary steps ...
19.11.2013

Support for innovations for development and inclusive business

The project aims at advancing innovations for development and pro-poor, inclusive, base-of-the-pyramid (BOP) business in Finland's development cooperation. The project supports the development of servi...
1.11.2013

INT/Aid for Trade for Central Asia

UNDP is implementing the flagship project on the theme Aid For Trade in the framework of Wider Europe Initiative. The first Phase of the programme (2009-2010) consisted of three components: 1) Aid for ...
31.10.2013

Development for African Education (ADEA)

Association for Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) is an organisation that develops the educational sector in Africa. ADEA brings together donors and African ministries of education. ADEA maint...
30.10.2013

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 ...
29.10.2013

IOM

IOM's (International Organization for Migration) project promotes better health and well being amongst migrants - with special focus on women, lactating mothers and children - transiting through Egypt ...
24.10.2013

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...
24.10.2013

VIE/Capacity Building for the Development of Selective Breeding Programs in Vietnam

The project "Capacity Building for the Development of Selective Breeding Programs in Vietnam" aims to improve the climate sustainability of the fishing industry and minimize its environmental impact u...
17.10.2013

Finland’s Water Management Programme in Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan

The overall objective of the intervention is to enhance water security in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and the related region through equitable and integrated management of water resources. The purpose is...
4.10.2013

Partnership for Action on Green Economy PAGE

This partnership project by four UN agencies - UNEP, UNITAR, UNIDO and ILO - aims at helping 30 countries over 7 years to achieve equitable and sustainable transformation of national economic structure...
20.9.2013

Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing Climate

The Programme has concentrated on building capacity, developing and testing methodologies and delivering best practices and methods at the national level for four different Outcome areas: developing fo...
19.9.2013

Strengthening Rule of Law and Human Rights to Enpower People

The UNDP Tajikistan Rule of Law programme consists of two parts where the MFA funded project (4 years) will focus on strengthening the capacity of specific institutions such as Ombudsman office, State...
11.9.2013

Complementarity and human rights based agenda; ngo support to bilateral cooperation in the education sector

Additional call for proposals to be arranged by the Unit for Asia and Oceania for Finnish ngo´s interested in working in close cooperation in education sector in Nepal. Selected ngo will provide expert...
6.9.2013

Non-formal training in support of livelihood for adult refugees in Kyaka II refugee settlement

The development problem that the project aims to alleviate is poverty defined as lack of basic capacities needed for generating human well-being. The overall objective of the project is to alleviate po...
27.8.2013

Brighter Future - through computer-aided education

This project is providing learning opportunities for children with low social background, who have limited resources, in the greater Mexico City area, through setting up computer learning environment ...
27.8.2013

Ensuring the Food Security Situation and improve the welfare of OVC and their Care Giver Families in Batu Town

There is large number of, destitute, starved, orphaned and vulnerable children in Maedot target areas that live or roam along the streets deprived of food, shelter and education mainly due to poverty, ...
27.8.2013

Mental Health Training Centre Mazar

Among the mental illnesses affecting Afghans most are depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder. While the factors are numerous, the path to treatment is troubled with obstacles ranging fro...
23.8.2013

Coping with ongoing Social Trauma – Care for the care providers

Especially in the eastern parts of Turkey various organizations have documented ongoing human rights violations, such as restricting the laws of freedom and assembly (HRW Report: Protesting as a terror...
23.8.2013

Dien Bien Phu Drainage, Wastewater Collection and Treatment Project,VN

The proposed Project will comprise rehabilitation and extension of drainage system and sewerage network as well as construction of a 10 000 m3/day biological wastewater treatment plant. The Project aim...
23.8.2013

Improving reading and writing skills in primary education in Maputo

In Mozambique the level of writing and reading skills is low. There are many reasons for this: they do not have enough schoolbooks, the infrastructure and teachers’ teaching skills are insufficient and...
23.8.2013

Promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights and education of girls in rural Malawi

The project is implemented by Väestöliitto, Mannerheim League for Child Welfare (MLL), Youth Empowerment and Civic Education, Family Planning Association of Malawi and College of Medicine, University o...
23.8.2013

Sumba Water Supply

In Kaksingri valley in the nearby areas to Sumba West in Suba District, Kenya, there are today five boreholes for water. People who fetch water from these boreholes have increased as well as the cons...
22.8.2013

3rd Phase Haik Integrated Rural Development Project

To improve the livelihood situation at household level within the target communities. 3rd phase of the project has encompassed social problems like the idleness of the youth, poverty of women and probl...
22.8.2013

A profession for all: professional training for countryside women

This 3-year project aims at empowering women in the rural areas of Bcharre district (the most vulnerable, with less job opportunities, and a stagnant economic situation in Lebanon) through a vocational...
22.8.2013

Aid for disadvantaged children to integrate them back to society

Situation of children, especially street-children, is insecure and bad in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Main goals of the project are to integrate street-children, especially girls, as active membe...
22.8.2013

Capacity building for Mongolian deaf people by empowering their NGOs

The project aims at inclusion of deaf people in Mongolian society. There are 3 problems to help deaf people to have more opportunities to access the society and claim their human rights: 1. The NGOs...
22.8.2013

Centre Ariadna, Supporting Women in Crisis Situations

This is a continuation project called 'Centre Ariadna:Supporting Women in Crisis Situations' which focuses on domestic violence against women in Republic of Moldova by providing a safe place where dome...
22.8.2013

Developing Mongolian Medical infrastructure through enhanced training of Doctors for evaluation for and in-flight patient care.

The overall objective is to improve the access to medical care and treatment for all Mongolians regardless of where they live. Specialized health care of one million people in Mongolian vast countrysid...
22.8.2013

Family Strengthening Programme / social centre Goderich

The goal of the project are human rights, especially the rights of children and women. The overall objective of the programme is to enable children that are at risk of losing their parental care to gro...
22.8.2013

Farmers' Clubs in Kuando Kubango province, Angola

The overall objective of the project is to promote environmentally sustainable human development in rural areas in Angola. The purpose is to increase food security, household income, health and general...
22.8.2013

HIV Project Good Samaritan

The long term objective of the project is to contribute to the reduction of the spread of HIV and stigmatization of infected and affected people. The main focus is to reduce stigmatization and discrimi...
22.8.2013

Improving rehabilitation services for people with spinal cord injury in Western Nepal

Spinal cord injury rehabilitation is a major unmet need in Nepal. In Nepal, most cases are caused by falls from heights, chiefly from trees (from which poor farmers cut fodder for their stock) and buil...
22.8.2013

Improving Teaching Quality in Primary Schools in Niassa province

The project aims at contributing to the Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education by 2015, promoting equal opportunities for girls and boys, regardless of their social status...
22.8.2013

Lhomi community development project

This project focuses on the approximately 6300 Lhomi people living in the remote area of the highlands in northeast Nepal, Khandbari and Kathmandu. The main development problems are: extreme poverty, v...
22.8.2013

Micro and Small Enterprises (MSME) Support Programme in Kenya

This project aims at the creation of employment among the young micro-entrepreneurs of the informal economy and the development of a training programme for the unemployed underprivileged youth in techn...
22.8.2013

New Life with Dignity

This project is the continuation of an on-going project, aimed at employment of deprived young adults in rural villages through training, raising awareness of the job market and creating new work oppor...
22.8.2013

RaTas: Network Against Gender Based Violence in The Gambia

The “Desk Review on GBV in The Gambia” report revealed that the health system does not have formal protocols or procedures for caring for survivors of gender-based violence. It is not clear how far hea...
22.8.2013

Strengthening of the network of graduated teachers – for improved primary school education

The project will establish a network of 40 primary schools in Blantyre Rural and Thyolo Districts in Southern Malawi, with the overall objective of improving the quality of primary school education and...
22.8.2013

Supporting Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Macedonia - Dialogue and Cooperation

The project seeks to strengthen multi-ethnic democracy and stability in Macedonia (FYROM). The focus is on strengthening the capacities of young grass roots civil society activists. The immediate objec...
22.8.2013

The Brigde of Cultural Traditions

The project aims to support the cultural diversity of the minority nationalities in Vietnam through researching and festival cooperation. The project will create an international net of research instit...
22.8.2013

Vocational Education Development Project VED-project

Development Problems in Malaita: 1. Unemployment of young people, lack of education 2. Vacation from Malaita, marginalization, crime, drug problem and drinking 3. Lack of preventive health services ...
22.8.2013

Yasmin - Women's resource center

The project focuses and revolves around the cross-cutting themes of health, education, income-generating, skills training and gender equality. The aim is to enhance cross-cultural understanding, micro-...
21.8.2013

Advanced training of peer educators in early childhood development

The objective of the project is to prepare a group of peer educators in the city of Matagalpa and its surrounding rural areas. The peer educators provide counselling and education to the families of th...
21.8.2013

Empowering women and youth through income generating skills for sustainable livelihoods

The main partner of this project is the Department of Consumer Sciences of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Swaziland (UNISWA).The project will be carried out in four regions of Swazilan...
21.8.2013

Ensuring a future for orphan and vulnerable children through educational support and the economic empowering of their mothers

The objective of the project is to improve the educational and nutritional status of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and to sustain their welfare through the economic empowerment of their mother...
21.8.2013

Msingi Girls to School Project

Msingi Friendship Association ja Songela Development Association are building a dormitorio for girls in Msingi. The project was started because parents do not want to send their daughters to school, wh...
20.8.2013

"NEXT STEP" for El Adde schooling development

The focus of the new project is to enable high school graduates from El-Adde school to continue their post secondary education in their home region. The whole project is estimates to last nine years. A...
20.8.2013

"Widow's Mite" Elderly Village to Malawi

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Especially the elderly live in utmost poverty, of whom most are women. Because of the HIV/AIDS- pandemic, caretakers of most of the families have di...
20.8.2013

Civil society capacity-building: getting familiar with UN processes and transnational advocacy work

The complexity of the interrelated crises, the food, energy, climate and youth bulb crisis, as well as the lack of democracy and transparency, need new, holistic approaches. This demands a new type of ...
20.8.2013

Community based outreach project among elderly

Traditionally, the role of older people in Namibia has been to advise their families and communities, and to receive care and respect by their children. Today, their role is often overlooked. Elderly p...
20.8.2013

Community Center

The primary goal of the project is to provide a structure in the Dalit villlage of Haldipada in Odisha that will make it possible for the villagers to have access to year-round accommodation, training ...
20.8.2013

Continued Education of the Personnel in the Saba Saba Health Care Centre

The inhabitants of Morogoro (300 000) do not receive qualitative basic health care, because the regional hospital does not admit patients of this level any more. Morogoro Municipality have decided to 1...
20.8.2013

Empowering the Communities for Youth

The project aims to contribute to the development problem of youth unemployment and inactive citizenship causing hopelessness and social evils such as crime, violence, poverty, homelessness, break up o...
20.8.2013

Fruit tree cropping in villages of the Lawra-region

The goal in the project is to create local potential for sustainable fruit tree management. Planted trees will provide harvest in the end of the dry season, when food is scarce. The effect of malnutrit...
20.8.2013

Good School

Hyvä Koulu (Good School) is a project that aims to develop the educational activities of primary schools on two levels in a suburb of Dakar, Senegal.One of the objectives set out in Senegal’s national ...
20.8.2013

Leadership Training of Namibian Teachers' Union (NANTU) at Regional and Local Level

The main goals are to promote the rights of the civil society, democratic desionmaking processes and social dialogue between the civil society,unions and education leaders and the education administrat...
20.8.2013

Physical Education Development Project in Nepal

The Physical Education Development Pilot Project 2013-2014 is LiiKe's first project in Nepal. It is planned in close cooperation with the Tribhuvan University's (TU) Department of Health, Physical and ...
20.8.2013

Political empowering of women in Palestine- From woman to woman

Women is Palestine are still separated from policy-making due to a set of political, economic and social conditions, and struggle in order to reach high authority possessions which are usually occupied...
20.8.2013

Productive Workshop for Trainees with Intellectual Disabilities piloting an innovative and sustainable process for inclusive tra

The main focus of the project is to strengthen in particular educational and training opportunities for children and young people with special needs in the area of the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya. ...
20.8.2013

Promoting domestic work as a decent occupation for women

Domestic workers are one of the most vulnerable groups in Peruvian society and the labour markets. Being mostly women and migrants from the rural areas of the country, domestic workers are treated as s...
20.8.2013

STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF ARAP MOI CHILDREN'S HOME

The project partners are faced with constantly growing challenges of increasing demand for child protection of poor children, changing operating environment of the Arap Moi Children's Home (AMCH), ne...
20.8.2013

Strengthening Youth Friendly Health Services Through Community-Based Interventions in Rural India

Young people in the age group 10-24 years constitute nearly one third of the Indian population. However, they remain marginalized in terms of access to health services, information on sexual and reprod...
20.8.2013

Sustainable Forest Use and Food Security

Forest resources are used unsustainably in and around Kiwengwa-Pongwe Forest Reserve because of poor farming techniques, lack of available land and limited livelihood opportunities in the 12 villages s...
20.8.2013

Youth groups constructing political citizenship in Guatemala

More than 70% of the Guatemalan population is under 30 years old, and more than 50 % is under 20 years old. The social problems of the country such as street violence, insecurity, corruption and impuni...
20.8.2013

Youth media forum in Palestine

Social exclusion of youth is one of the most serious development problems in Palestine. Many young people have little prospects of improving their lives, and youth unemployment is very high both in Wes...
19.8.2013

LISTEN, LEARN and LIVERights-based approach empowering families for sustainable livelihood and well-being

The project aims to contribute to the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promote gender equality and empowerment of women and to environmental sustainability. The overall objective of the proje...
19.8.2013

Non-formal training in support of livelihood for adult refugees in Kyangwali refugee settlement

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...
19.8.2013

Promoting forestry and forest conservation in Kizarawe

There is particular concern of increasing forest degradation in the Kizarawe area in Tanzania. Illegal cutting of forest resources for energy purposes is an increasing problem in Daresalaam city. Commu...
19.8.2013

Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Senegal

The project Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Senegal aims to unlock the entrepreneurial leadership potential of disadvantaged youth. It offers practical hands-on entrepreneurial experiences to youth...
15.8.2013

Competence Development in Education

The aim of the project is to promote competence development in the special education and general education sector in Tanzania through workshops and seminars. The overall aim is to promote school achiev...
8.8.2013

Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue of Cultures, ALF

The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) is a parent organization for the national ALF networks operating in 44 countries across the EU and the Mediterranean region. The Foundation was founded in 2005. The oper...
8.8.2013

General Education Quality Improvement Program II (GEQIP)

General Education Quality Improvement Program (GEQIP) phase II consists of the following components: (i) curriculum, textbooks and assessment; (ii) teacher development program (TDP); (iii) school impro...
8.8.2013

Indigenous rights and culture in Adivasi forest communities

The new Tribal Forests Rights Act gives indigenous tribes the right to exploit local forests in a sustainable manner. The execution of the law has, however, been incomplete. The project aims to facilit...
8.8.2013

Services for Palestinian children with multiple special needs and their families in Lebanon Acronym MSN-services

Palestinian refugee population has no available mental health services in Lebanon. Beit Atfal Assumoud (BAS) started the mental health program: "Family Guidance Center" for children in 1997. So far the...
8.8.2013

Support to Kenya's government oversight agencies

The programme supports the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights, the National Gender and Equality Commission and the Commission for Administrative Justice (Ombudsman), which are independent const...
9.7.2013

Westbury Youth Development Initiative

Youth are in a central role in developing their communities and societies as well as in poverty reduction. In South Africa youth’s challenges are multiple. The cooperation of different actors of the so...
28.6.2013

Green Earth - Tany Maitso

Madagascar is among the world's poorest countries. As such, people's day-to-day survival is dependent upon natural resource use. Most Malagasy never have an opportunity to find jobs from official secto...
28.6.2013

Integrated River Basin Management at Koshi River – Safeguarding the lives of millions

The proposed project is continuation of the earlier MFA funded project in the Indrawati Sub-basin of the Koshi river basin (Jan 2010-Dec 2012). This project is based on the outcomes, needs and recommen...
28.6.2013

Livelihood and Environmental Awareness Project Extension Phase

The extension phase is necessary for achieving sustainability of the mobilization processes started during 2010-2012. The established women's groups will be continued, but at the same time also oth...
28.6.2013

Making Investments work for people and forests in Coastal East Africa (CEA)

The pressure of natural resources has increased sharply in East Africa in recent years as the WWF Africa Ecological Footprint Report shows. Population growth and food, energy and other commodities risi...
28.6.2013

Sustainable development model for schools and communities - 100 million trees by 2017

ENO Programme Association together with Arbonaut Ltd (Finland), 4H Tanzania, Zambia Forestry College and Copperbelt University Natural Resources and Environmental Society will implement a project to ra...
11.6.2013

Increasing Access to Quality Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health for women and marginalized groups in Yemen

MSIY's rogramme "Increasing Access to Quality Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health for women and marginalized groups in Yemen" operates for three years in four governorates of Yemen. The...
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