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@formin.fi
Phone
- +358 295 350 000
Personnel

Lauratuulia Lehtinen
Director
- +358 295 350 184
Pilvi Taipale
Counsellor
Desk Officer
Deputy Humanitarian Director UN humanitarian coordination (incl. OCHA, CERF), Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD)
- +358 295 350 322
Veli-Pekka Kaivola
Counsellor
Desk Officer
UN refugee organisations, the Middle East
Refugee Issues, UNHCR, UNRWA, Regional follow-up: Middle East
- +358 295 350 333
Renne Klinge
Senior Adviser
Migration Policy Coordination, IOM
- Renne.Klinge@formin.fi
- +358 295 350 274
Pekka Marttila
Counsellor
Desk Officer
Finnish NGO’s, WFP, Red Cross (ICRC, IFRC, FRC), Regional follow-up: Asia, Latin America, Oceania
- +358 295 350 233
Niklas Saxen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
- +358 295 350 519
- +358 50 591 6053
Katariina Tervakangas
Desk Officer
EU affairs, UN organizations: UNFPA, UNDRR, UNICEF, Regional follow-up: Africa
- +358 295 350 954
E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@formin.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.