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
Marjaana Hyppönen
Desk Officer
  • +358 295 350 058
Ville Pennanen
Desk Officer
  • +358 50 421 0931
Niklas Saxen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
Thematic work, ICRC DSG Chairmanship
  • +358 295 350 519
Ann-Mari Fröberg
Deputy director, UN coordination of humanitarian aid, OCHA, CERF, GHD
  • +358 295 351 239
Kim Junna
Desk Officer
Anu Saarela
Ambassador
CV
Lotta Sjöblom
Development cooperation
Senior Specialist, Ukraine, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRC and IFRC), and Finnish CSOs
Alma Tontti
Trainee

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