Unit for Humanitarian Assistance

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

Email

  • KEO-70@gov.fi

Phone

  • +358 295 350 000

Personnel

Anna Vitie
Director
  • +358 295 350 130
Petri Puhakka
Ambassador
International disability issues
  • +358 295 350 332
CV
Niklas Saxen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
Thematic work, ICRC DSG Chairmanship
  • +358 295 350 519
Elli Aro
Trainee
  • +358 29 535 0961
Sini Kuutamo
Special assignment
  • +358 295 350 280
Eveliina Lappi
Desk Officer
  • +358 295 350 639
Lotta Mäkelä
Development cooperation
Senior Specialist, Ukraine, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRC and IFRC), and Finnish CSOs
  • +358 295 350 941
Ville Pennanen
Desk Officer
Suvi Turja
Specialist
OCHA (incl.CERF,basket funds) Grand Bargain, communication)
  • +358 295 350 287

E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@gov.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.