Humanitarian assistance 

The need for humanitarian assistance has increased rapidly with the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the escalation of conflicts. Finland has worked resolutely to promote the needs and rights of persons with disabilities both at operational level and in the international humanitarian system. 
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GLOBAl situation

The global humanitarian situation is deteriorating at a record rate

The world's humanitarian situation is worse than ever before. In recent years, the need for emergency assistance has grown exceptionally rapidly.

The main reason for this change has been the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the worst humanitarian crisis in 50 years. The pandemic also escalated other ongoing crises and made the delivery of assistance more difficult and expensive.

In addition to the pandemic, the need for humanitarian assistance increased due to armed conflicts and their escalation, including in Afghanistan and Ethiopia. The situation also deteriorated because of natural disasters and prolonged drought caused by climate change, in places such as the Horn of Africa. In 2022, the overall picture became even darker as Russia illegally invaded Ukraine and global food security weakened.

As a result, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance,, such as urgent health services, food, clean water, shelter or protection, has more than doubled in just a few years. While in December 2018 around 131.7 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance, three years later, the number has risen to 274 million people in 63 countries. The number of people in need was largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Ethiopia.

Over 100 million people in 56 countries received humanitarian assistance through UN organisations in 2021

At the same time, the amount of funding needed for humanitarian operations has almost doubled from USD 22 billion to USD 41 billion. Although funding from countries and private entities has increased steadfastly, it covers an ever smaller share of global needs. In 2021, only 54 per cent of UN humanitarian appeals were funded. This means that humanitarian assistance must be targeted even more carefully to the people most in need and that more people will be left without the help they need. Forcibly displaced people, pregnant women and persons with disabilities are in particularly vulnerable situations.

As humanitarian needs grow, humanitarian work has become more difficult and dangerous than ever before. For example, in 2021, almost 500 humanitarian workers were victims of a serious attack and more than 100 of them lost their lives trying to help people affected by a conflict or natural disaster. Violations of international humanitarian law - such as attacks on civilian infrastructure, e.g. hospitals and schools, and hindering humanitarian access - have also increased.

Humanitarian needs at a record high level

UN coordinated humanitarian appeals and total recorded funding for them.59

  • Global humanitarian needs have doubled in just a few years. Finland increased humanitarian financing by 44% in 2018-2021.

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Finland’s support ensures people affected by crisis have access to food, water, shelter, hygiene kits and health services

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Finland helps to ensure people's physical and mental health, decent and safe living conditions, access to work, and the right of every child to learning and personal development.

Finland promotes the coordination and coherence of humanitarian assistance

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Finland supports the UN's leadership role in humanitarian work, strengthens understanding of disaster risks and supports the transfer of service delivery from humanitarian actors to local and state actors as conditions permit. 

Finland helps protect people affected by a humanitarian crisis

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Finland provides support to protect civilians from violence, exploitation and abuse, and to reduce and prevent inequality and discrimination. 
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Central Emergency Response Fund increased financing for humanitarian operations that take persons with disabilities into consideration 

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The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund pays particular attention to the needs of persons with disabilities in its funding decisions. In 2020, CERF provided emergency assistance to 8.1 million people with disabilities, 53 per cent of whom were girls and women. In 2021, CERF allocated USD 10 million to specifically address the needs of persons with disabilities. The projects funded improve water supply, health services and inclusive education in Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Venezuela.
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The World Food Programme enhances disability inclusion

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Finland has increased the World Food Programme WFP's knowledge of disability inclusion. Finland advocated actively in the WFP’s Board, in bilateral negotiations and in cooperation with like-minded countries. In November 2020, the WFP’s Board adopted a roadmap for persons with disabilities. The WFP is currently creating indicators for disability inclusion and intends to include this principle in all its country programmes. In the future, persons with disabilities will be taken into account in such things as procurements, accessibility of facilities, information and communication technology as well as in meetings and training materials. Finland has supported the implementation of the WFP roadmap with special earmarked funding. 
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Finnish civil society organisations carry out valuable work for persons with disabilities

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Finnish civil society organisations pay particular attention to addressing the needs of persons with disabilities. World Vision Finland has implemented projects to develop inclusive water and sanitation services in Northern Uganda. In 2020-2021, assistance reached some 80,000 people of whom 8,000 were persons with disabilities.  

In 2020-2021, Save the Children’s project in Somalia provided cash assistance to improve food security, among other activities. More than half of the 739 families receiving cash assistance were families where the guardian or one of the children had a disability. 

In 2019-2021, Fida’s project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo also aimed at improving the food security. The project reached 117,000 people, of whom 11,000 were persons with disabilities.    

Humanitarian assistance also for persons with disabilities

Finland has taken a leadership role internationally in promoting the rights of persons with disabilities and increased attention to their needs in conflicts and disasters.

Disability inclusion in humanitarian crises was adopted as one of Finland's most important humanitarian priorities in 2019. While approximately an average of 15 per cent of the world's population are persons with disabilities, the share is often clearly higher in conflict-affected areas. In humanitarian crises, persons with disabilities have a higher risk of being left without the assistance and protection they need and are not involved in the planning and implementation of assistance.

Finland's policy is implemented both in funding decisions and in international advocacy. For example, from 2020 forward, Finnish humanitarian civil society organisations supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs must pay particular attention to the needs of persons with disabilities and the response to these needs in their funding applications and reports.

In recent years, Finland has focused on promoting system-level change in its international advocacy. The aim has been for large humanitarian actors, such as UN organisations, to incorporate the inclusion of persons with disabilities into their strategies and country level operations.

Finland's leadership role is visible in several international forums. In the Council conclusions adopted at the initiative of Finland during its EU Presidency in 2019, the Member States gave for the first time strong political support to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian assistance. At the World Refugee Forum held in December 2019, Finland took a leading role in highlighting disability inclusion. In 2017-2020, Finland co-chaired the Global Action on Disability Network’s humanitarian working group together with UNICEF.

Advocacy work is conducted in close cooperation with organisations of persons with disabilities and partner countries. Finland is currently chairing a group promoting humanitarian disability inclusion together with Australia and Britain.

Advances in disability inclusion in UN organisations

Finland's long-term work in promoting the rights of persons with disabilities has contributed to the systemic change currently underway in the UN. In 2019, the UN-led Inter-Agency Standing Committee adopted global guidelines on inclusion of persons with disabilities in all humanitarian action. Finland supported the work both financially and by providing expertise. The new guidelines create standards for good practices and contribute to strengthening the efficiency, effectiveness and human rights-based nature of humanitarian assistance.

In 2019, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA recognised the lack of funding for disability inclusion and announced it as one of the underfunded priorities in the pooled funds it managed. The decision was also partly based on Finland's advocacy work in the UN Central Emergency Response Fund’s advisory group. OCHA’s pooled funds allocate nearly one billion dollars annually to humanitarian operations. In the funding decisions, particular attention is now drawn to the needs and rights of persons with disabilities.

Finland's active advocacy has also contributed to the UNHCR to update its operating model. In 2019, the UNHCR published a Disability Inclusion Survey, and in recent years, the organisation has sought to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities in its programmes. The UNHCR also aims to identify persons with disabilities in its registration processes and to improve their access to assistance and protection.

Food, medicines, protection and good donorship

Finland has increased its humanitarian financing and acted in favour of strengthening international principles and improving the effectiveness of assistance.

The gap between humanitarian needs and available funding has increased in recent years. It is therefore increasingly important that assistance is provided as effectively as possible.

Effective and efficient humanitarian work requires that actors in the sector have access to flexible and predictable funding. For this reason, Finland allocates a significant share of its humanitarian funding as multiannual core funding to UN Agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 2019-2021, core funding accounted for 44 per cent of humanitarian financing provided by Finland.

With flexible and predictable funding, humanitarian organisations can quickly and efficiently target assistance where it is most needed. Flexible funding helps them to anticipate and plan their work in a more long-term manner, but also to respond quickly to sudden-onset crises such as the pandemic. Finland is committed to flexible funding as part of the Grand Bargain initiative to promote the efficiency of assistance.

International policy influence

Finland actively works for better and more effective humanitarian assistance.

In 2021-2023, Finland and Belgium are co-chairing the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) initiative [1] consisting of 42 donors. The aim of the group is to uphold the principles of humanitarian assistance and to find best policies and practices for improving its effectiveness. In 2021, Finland and Belgium raised two topical issues for discussion for the first time ever by such a large group of donors: how to reduce the environmental impact of assistance and how to dismantle the unequal power structures between donors, international humanitarian organizations and local actors.

In recent years, violations of international humanitarian law have increased. At Finland’s initiative, the EU Council adopted conclusions on humanitarian assistance and international humanitarian law in 2019. These included EU countries committing to increasing awareness among armed groups of the obligations imposed by humanitarian law.

Funding has increased

With the increase in development cooperation appropriations, Finland was able to increase its financing of humanitarian assistance from EUR 72.5 million to EUR 104.5 million during the period between 2018 and 2021.

Humanitarian assistance accounted for around 10 per cent of official development cooperation for a long time, but it has increased in recent years. In 2021, the share was 14.7 per cent.

In international comparisons, Finland ranks among the medium-sized donor countries and thus its profile as an effective and visible donor cannot solely be based on the amount of financing. In 2021, Finland was the 20th largest humanitarian assistance donor in the world.

Finland has received praise from its partners for its principled approach and advocacy. Similar feedback was also given in an evaluation of Finland’s humanitarian assistance carried out in 2022.

Finland's humanitarian funding 2019-2021

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The pandemic increased humanitarian needs

UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • 1

    United Nations (2021). The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021. https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/(Link to another website.)

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    World Bank (2022). Pandemic, Prices and Poverty.
    https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/pandemic-prices-and-poverty    (Link to another website.)      Referenced on 4.10.2022. 

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    World Bank (2022). World Development Indicators. Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), personal remittances, received (current US$), net official development assistance received (current US$). DataBank. https://databank.worldbank.org/(Link to another website.)  Referenced on 6.7.2022. 

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    Finnish civil society organisations, including World Vision Finland, the International Solidarity Foundation and FIDA as part of the broader SRHR communication work and the results achieved by UNFPA with support from Finland.

  • 5

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2022). Completion rate, lower secondary, female %. http://sdg4-data.uis.unesco.org/(Link to another website.)  Referenced on 4.10.2022.

  • 6

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of teachers who received pre or in service training' from the following interventions: HEI-ICI programme, projects and programmes coordinated by the Finnish Bible Society, Wycliff, Finn Church Aid, FIDA, the Finnish Refugee Council, Disability Partnership Finland and Taksvärkki.

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    Finnish civil society organisations, including World Vision Finland, the International Solidarity Foundation and FIDA as part of the broader SRHR communication work and the results achieved by UNFPA with support from Finland.

  • 8

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of teachers who received pre or in service training' from the following interventions: bilat¬eral assistance and sector programmes in Nepal, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Palestinian Territories and Ukraine, as well as from UNESCO’s Capacity Building for Education programme. 

  • 9

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of teachers who received pre or in service training' from the following interventions: HEIICI programme, projects and programmes coordinated by the Finnish Bible Society, Wycliff, Finn Church Aid, FIDA, the Finnish Refugee Council, Disability Partnership Finland and Taksvärkki.

  • 10

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of teachers who received pre or in service training' from the following interventions: bilateral assistance and sector programmes in Nepal, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Palestinian Territories and Ukraine, as well as from UNESCO’s Capacity Building for Education programme.

  • 11

    Participating countries include those supported through UNESCO's CAP Ed programme and Finland's bilateral cooperation partner countries, where Finland supports structural reforms of the school system. 

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    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of educational institutions whose capacity has been strengthened' (schools) from inter¬ventions in the following countries: Nepal, Myanmar (Sector Programme and Education Support to promote education in Ethnic Regions), Ethiopia and Ukraine. 

  • 13

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of educational institutions whose capacity has been strengthened' (schools) from the following interventions: Wycliffe, Finn Church Aid, Finnish Refugee Coun¬cil, Taksvärkki, FIDA, Disability Partnership Finland, World Vision, Finn¬partnership and Finnfund. 

  • 14

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'number of educational institutions whose capacity has been strengthened' (teacher education institutions) from the following interventions: Myanmar/UNESCO, Mozambique/FASE, Ukraine/basic education project, HEI-ICI programme and E-tale Africa project. 

  • 15

    This figure includes pupils assisted through country and regional cooper¬ation, humanitarian assistance and multilateral cooperation in projects in Ethiopia, Lebanon, Syria, Myanmar, Iraq, including Finland's compu¬tational share of support to UNRWA and ECW. Pupils reached by civil soci¬ety organisations have been reported separately as a whole. 

  • 16

    Data collected on aggregate indicators' number of students enrolled in education '(vocational and non-formal) and' number of women and girls with disabilities who have access to vocational training 'from projects and programmes by the following organisations: Finnish Refugee Council, FIDA, the Abilis Foundation, Disability Partnership Finland. 

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    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of students enrolled in education' (pre-primary, primary, secondary) from projects and programmes by the following organisations: Finn Church Aid, FIDA, Wycliffe. 

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    The data was collected from aggregate indicator ‘number of students enrolled in education’ (vocational and non-formal) and ‘number of women and girls with disabilities who have access to vocational training’ from projects and programmes by the following organisations: Finn Church Aid, Finnish Refugee Council, SOS Children's Villages, Disability Partnership Finland, Finnish Bible Society, Taksvärkki ODW Finland, The Abilis Foundation, The Finnish Foundation for Media and Development.

  • 19

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of students enrolled in education' (pre-primary, primary, secondary, vocational). This figure was calculated on the basis of the most recent pre-pandemic sta¬tistics on student number in Finland's bilateral cooperation partner coun¬tries: Nepal, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Palestine, Mozambique, Ukraine and Ethiopia. 

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    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator ‘Number of proposals for laws and policies that improve business environment and regional economic integration’. The results are the figures reported by the UN Industrial Development Organization UNIDO in 2019-2021. Finland is a UNIDO member state and pays a statutory membership fee annually.

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    Jobs and companies in developing countries have also been supported through other cooperation, but the figures reported by all supported actors do not fall under the indicators monitored by the Ministry for For­eign Affairs.

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    Multilateral cooperation: The data was collected from the aggregate indi­cator 'Number of full-time (or equivalent) jobs assisted or created' from the following actors: UN Industrial Development Organization UNIDO, 2019-2021; European Development Fund, 2019-2020.

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    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of full-time (or equivalent) jobs supported or created' and includes the Energy and Envi­ronment Partnership’s (EEP) support 2020-2021 and the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IADB) general support 2020-2021.

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    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator 'Number of full-time (or equivalent) jobs assisted or created' from the following projects: AgroBIG II, Assistance for agro-driven economic growth in Amhara, Ethi­opia (2019-2021); AGS Zambia, Assistance for SME growth in Zambia (2021) and SAIS, Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme (2021).

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    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator 'Number of full-time (or equivalent) jobs assisted or created' from the following actors: Finn­partnership, 2019-201; FCA Investments, 2019-2021 and Finnfund, 2019-2020.

  • 26

    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator 'Number of full-time (or equivalent) jobs assisted or created' from the following projects: HALO Trust, 2019-2020; International Solidarity Foundation, 2019-2021; Finn Church Aid, 2019-2021; Fairtrade, 2020-2021.

  • 27

    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator ‘Number of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries benefiting from business development services, including innovation support ser¬vices, responsible business practices and financing supporting improved or growing business’.International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD, 2019; UN Industrial Development Organization UNIDO, 2021; Euro¬pean Development Fund, 2019-2020; International Development Associ¬ation IDA, 2020-2021; International Trade Centre ITC, 2019-2021. 

  • 28

    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator ‘Number of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries benefiting from business development services, including innovation support ser­vices, responsible business practices and financing supporting improved or growing business’ from the following actors: European Bank for Recon­struction and Development (EBRD), 2020; Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2019-2020; African Development Bank (AfDB), 2020; Inter-American (IADB), 2020-2021.

  • 29

    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator 'Number of MSMEs in developing countries benefiting from business development services, including innovation support services, and responsible business prac¬tices and funding for business improvement or growth', from the follow¬ing projects: Forestry and value chain development, Tanzania, 2019- 2020; AGS Zambia, Support for growth of Zambian SMEs, 2020-2021. 

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    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator ‘Number of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries benefiting from business development services, including innovation support ser­vices, responsible business practices and financing supporting improved or growing business’ from the following actors: Finnfund, 2019-2020; FCA Investments, 2019-2021, DevPlat, 2020-2021.

  • 31

    The data was collected from the aggregate indicator 'Number of MSMEs in developing countries benefiting from business development services, including innovation support services, and responsible business prac­tices and funding for business improvement or growth', from the follow­ing projects: Project Support, SOS Child Village, Ethiopia, Gambia, Tan­zania, 2020; Programme Support, International Solidarity Foundation, 2020-2021; Programme Support, Finn Church Aid, 2020-2021; Pro­gramme Support, WWF, 2019-2021; Programme Support, Plan Finland, 2019-2021; Programme Support, Finnish Refugee Council, 2019-2020; Programme Support, World Vision Finland 2020-2021.

  • 32

    The data was collected from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs aggregate indicator ‘Number of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) partner­ships with education and research institutions and private sector actors’ from the reports of the following projects and actors: Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme, Finnpartnership, BEAM/Developing Markets Platform, Plan Finland, HEI-ICI.

  • 33

    The data was collected from aggregate indicator 'Number of enterprises trained on decent work standards and/or responsible business practices', from reports by the following projects and actors: Finnish Refugee Coun­cil, Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme, Finnpartnership business partnership programme, supporting the growth of Zambian SMEs, Fairtrade, Evaluation of interest-subsidy projects, Finnwatch. The number of trained companies is calculated annually. It is possible that the same company will appear in the figures for several years.

  • 34

    Un Women Global Output Indicator 2.4.2. 2019 result 5,964, 2020 result 6,808 and 2021 result 11,597. https://www.unwomen.org/en/execu­tive-board/strategic-plan/outcome-area-2

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    Project support, Deaconess Institute in Helsinki, Europe/Romaninaisten voimaa - Romanina (2020); Project support, Deaconess Institute in Hel­sinki, KOSOVO//Eteenpäin elämässä (EqE) (2020); Project Support, Children and Youth Foundation, SEN/Naatange art la (2020); Project Support, SOS Child Village Foundation, TAN/Women's and Children's Rights, Mufindi (2020); Project Support, Finnish YMCA, LIB/Syyrialaisten pakolaisten amk (2020); Project Support, Interpedia, NEP/Haavoittu­vassa asemassa olevat lapset (2021); Support for International Non-gov­ernmental Organisations (INGO), Hivos (2020); Support for Interna­tional Non-governmental Organisations (INGO), International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) (2019); Support for International Non-governmental Organisations (INGO) joint application round, International Service for Human Rights (2020); Support for International Non-governmental Organisations (INGO), World Organisa­tion against Torture (2021); Other multilateral help, Justice Rapid Response (2020); Programme support, Abilis Foundation (2021); Pro­gramme support, Fida International (2021); Programme support, Finn­ish Red Cross (2019); Programme support, International Solidarity Foundation (2021); Programme support, KiOS Foundation (2021); Pro­gramme support, Finn Church Aid (2021); Programme support, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Finland’s Fund (2021); Programme support, Plan Finland Foundation (2019); Programme support, Fairtrade (2021); Pro­gramme support, Siemenpuu Foundation for civil society (2021); Pro­gramme support, Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland SASK (2020); Programme support, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (2020); Pro­gramme support Finnish Refugee Council (2019, 2020, 2021); Pro­gramme support, World Vision Finland (2021); Programme support, Taksvärkki (2021); Programme support, Disability Partnership Finland (2020); United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, ARFICA/Projects coor­dinated by youth funds, programming period 2019-2020.As the pro­gramme/project assistance organisation partnerships usually last throughout a project/programme period, the number of organisations supported in partner countries has been calculated by including only the year for which the highest result has been reported. The sum of the results for different years are only added together for those organisa­tions where it has been explicitly mentioned that partner organisations are not the same.

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    BI Cofinancing programme UN University, MOZ/MPD-UEM Policy Research (2020); ICI cooperation Finnish Forest Research Institute TAN/IKI/LUKE INFORES (2019); Bilateral project, DEMO Finland, MOZ/ DEMO Strengthening Parliament (2020/2021); Bilateral project, Nether­lands Institute for Multiparty Democracy: MOZ/Natural resources govern­ance (2019); Bilateral project, TAN/PFP 2 (2020); Asian Development Fund, Additional funding, AsDF-13 (2021), Asian Development Fund, Additional funding, AsDF-12 (2019, 2020); UN University MOZ/UNU-WIDER IGM II (2021); Thematic assistance, UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO (2019, 2020).

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    UN Development Programme, KGZ/Legal sector support project (2019, 2020); UN Development Programme, TJK/Legal sector support project (2019, 2020); KiOS, programme assistance (2019, 2020, 2021); Finn­watch, project assistance, THA/burmalaiset siirtotyöntekijät voimaan­tuneet (2020); European Development Fund, additional funding (2019, 2020); UN Women, general funding (2019, 2020, 2021). Disaggregation has only been calculated from the results for which disaggregated data has been available.

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    Support for International Non-governmental Organisations (INGO), Hivos (2019, 2020); Support for International Non-governmental Organ­isations (INGO), DefendDefenders, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (2020, 2021); Support for International Non-governmental Organisations (INGO), International Commission of Jurists (2019, 2020); Support for International Non-governmental Organisations (INGO), International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (2019, 2020); Support for International Non-gov­ernmental Organisations (INGO), International Service for Human Rights (2020, 2021); Support for International Non-governmental Organisations (INGO), Minority Rights Group International (2020); Sup­port for International Non-governmental Organisations (INGO), World Organisation against Torture (2019, 2020, 2021); Programme support, KiOS Foundation (2019, 2020, 2021); Programme support, Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland SASK (2019, 2020, 2021); Embassy of Fin­land, MDA/IJC/Media literacy, Moldova (2020); Embassy of Finland, MDA/SP/media support, Moldova (2020).

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    In 2018, the Action Plan had been drawn up in 60 countries, while at the end of 2021 the number was up to 86 countries. Un Women https://www. unwomen.org/en/executive-board/strategic-plan/outcome-area-5.

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    In addition, community-level peace-building is carried out by Fida Inter­national, World Vision, Save the Children, the Deaconess Foundation (reconciliation project) and the YMCA Finland (2250).

  • 41

    With Finland’s assistance, the Mines Advisory Group, Halo Trust, Danish Demining Group and the United Nations Mine Action Service have cleared 6.78 km2 of mines.

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    The data was collected from the following civil society organisations: Finnish Red Cross, 2019-2021, and World Vision Finland, 2020-2021.

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    The data was collected from the following civil society organisations: Finnish Red Cross, 2019-2020, and World Vision Finland, 2020-2021.

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    The data was collected from the following civil society organisations: Fida International, 2019-2021, and World Vision Finland, 2020-2021.

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    The data was collected from the following projects: Community led Accel­erated WASH in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, 2019-2020; Support to equitable access to quality water, basic sanitation and enhanced water resources management for the underserved communities in rural Kenya, Kenia, 2019-2020; Rural Village Water Resources Management Project Phase III, Nepal, 2019-2021; Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in West­ern Nepal Phase II, Nepal, 2019; UNICEF ONE WASH, Nepal, 2020-2021; WASH in Schools UNICEF, Afghanistan, 2019-2021.

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    Data kerätty seuraavista hankkeista: Support to equitable access to quality water, basic sanitation and enhanced water resources management for the underserved communities in rural Kenya, Kenia, 2019-2020; Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Western Nepal Phase II, Nepal, 2019; UNICEF ONE WASH, Nepal, 2020-2021; WASH in Schools UNICEF, Afganistan, 2019-2021.

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    The data was collected from the following projects: Support to equitable access to quality water, basic sanitation and enhanced water resources management for the underserved communities in rural Kenya, Kenya, 2019-2020; Rural Village Water Resources Management Project Phase III, Nepal, 2020-2021; UNICEF ONE WASH, Nepal, 2020-2021. 

  • 48

    The data was collected from the following actors: UNICEF, 2019-2021; European Regional Development Fund ERDF, new European beneficiaries, 2019-2020; World Bank/International Development Organisation IDA, 2019-2021; Asian Development Bank ADB, 2021; African Development Bank AfDB, 2019-2021. 

  • 49

    The data was collected from the following actors: UNICEF, 2019-2021; World Bank/International Development Association IDA, 2019-2021; Asian Development Bank ADB, 2021; African Development Bank AfDB, 2019-2021. 

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    UNICEF, UNICEF Development WASH, 2019-2021.

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    FAO/Forest and Farm Facility; Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania, Zambia, Vietnam (2020-2021); Participatory Forestry Programme, Tan­zania (2019-2021); Forestry and Value Chains Development Programme, Tanzania (2020-2021); The Alternative Development Programme in Shan State, Myanmar (2019-2020); WWF; Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia, East-Af­rica (2019-2021); FIDA International (2019-2021); Finnfund (2019- 2020).

  • 52

    FAO/Forest and Farm Facility; Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania, Zambia, Vietnam (2020-2021); WWF; Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia, East-Af­rica (2019-2021), Finnfund (2019-2020), UNIDO (2019-2021); Agro­business Induced Growth Programme in Amhara, Ethiopia (2019-2021).

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    WWF; Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia, East Africa (2019-2021); FIDA Interna­tional (2019-2021); the International Solidarity Foundation (2019- 2021); Fairtrade (2020-2021); Siemenpuu Foundation; Brazil, Indone­sia, India (2019-2021).

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    Participatory Forestry Programme, Tanzania (2019-2021); Forestry and Value Chains Development Programme, Tanzania (2020-2021); Tree Outgrower Support Programme, Tanzania (2020); The Alternative Development Programme in Shan State, Myanmar (2019-2020); Agrobusiness Induced Growth Programme in Amhara, Ethiopia (2019-2021).

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    FAO/Forest and Farm Facility; Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania, Zambia, Vietnam (2020-2021).

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      Finnfund (2019-2020).

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    GEF Corporate Scorecard June 2021; IFAD Development Effectiveness Report 2020.

  • 58

    European Commission Staff Working Document. Accompanying the document ‘Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council 2021’. Annual Report on the Implementation of the European Union’s External Action Instruments in 2020.

  • 59

    OCHA Financial Tracking Service (2021). Appeals and response plans 2021. https://fts.unocha.org/appeals/overview/2021 Referenced on 8.9.2022. 

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Central Emergency Response Fund responded quickly to the needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic 

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The UN Central Emergency Response Fund CERF granted its first funds in response to the COVID-19 crisis even before the disease had been declared a pandemic. In 2020, CERF channelled USD 225 million in 39 countries to address needs caused both directly and indirectly by the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March and October 2020, the funding made it possible to provide e.g. health education to 18 million people, support to 5 million children for distance learning, and clean water and hygiene supplies to 2.5 million people. In addition, 264 cargo flights carrying relief items to crisis area were made with the support of CERF. In 2020, Finland was CERF's eighth largest donor.