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Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Tunisia Tozeur is governorate located in southern Tunisia well-known for its oases. Palm trees and dates  are the region's main source of income. Mostly men work in the date industry during few months mainly when the dates are collected. In addition the date busin
ess is dominated by large scale family companies. Women are only employed at the packaging stage. Tozeurs second source of income is tourism which has been significantly affected by the current situation in Tunisia. Less and less tourists visit the governo
rate and several hotels in the area have been shut down. In Tozeur  as elsewhere in southern Tunisia  women's employment opportunities are poor. Leisure facilities in the area are non-existent. This situation has caused a lot of frustration in the region. 
Tozeuris have left their hometown and moved to the coast looking for better job opportunities.The Appui aux Initiatives de Developpement (AID) with whom the Finnish Embassy in Tunis have worked before on another development project approached the Embassy w
ith an interesting project  which they named Campus Citoyens pour les femmes du Djerid  .The project goal is to create a network of women's entrepreneurs living in Tozeur. The organization has planned an entrepreneurship training program for women that wou
ld help women be more aware of their environment and business opportunities. This in turn would help women to start new businesses.Women get also in the framework of this project citizenship training. The women who have received this training can influence
 more effectively the decision makers at a local level which in turn would contribute to the improvement of women's status in the area.
Friends of the Earth Finland promotion of development awareness Promotion of development awareness
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) Chab Dai Child Protection Development Project
Frame agreement with NGO (Fida Int.) The Project purpose is to increase food supplies for 600 families of Giharo and Bukemba in Rutana Province of Burundi through promotion and facilitation in better farming methods and practices that will enhance increased food production in the community. T
he Project will build the capacity of the community in sustainable land management, mobilization of local resource and adaptation to climate change.The Community of Pentecostal Churches in Burundi (CEPBU) is the main Fida partner in this program. During th
e past 4 decades, Burundi has undergone through destructive civil wars that caused a great damaged to the country?s economy. During this period, more than 500,000 fled the country to the neighbouring countries especially Tanzania. After a long process of p
eace talks between the rebels and the government, peace agreements were signed and the repatriation process was initiated in which a massive flow back of returnees were settled back to their origin places in Rutana province of Burundi. The resettlement pro
cess has faced a lot of challenges in meeting the needs of the returnee who were poor, illiterate, without food and shelter, and lacked farming inputs to start up their normal living. CEPBU and Fida have partnered to empower the community in understanding 
their rights in response to these challenges. The Project will conduct church leaders training on food security/environment protection techniques and the formulation of food security and Environment protection policy.  The partner will influence the commun
ity on matters related to food security and environment protection practices. The project will train the Community Coordinating Teams (CCT) who will be a representation of the 600 families on food security and environment protection.  The CCT will establis
h farmers' groups in the community and train them on saving and credit methods, effective livestock management, preparation and development of tree nurseries and engage them in tree planting and protect of forest areas with contour lines. The project will 
provide the Community Coordinating Teams with training materials, seeds for demonstration tree nurseries and links to other environment protection organizations. The overall objective of this project is to contribute to the wellbeing of the returnee commun
ities in Burundi. It is expected that, at the end of the project the returnees will increase their food production that is enough to sustain their family needs and support their children education
Frame agreement with NGO (Fida Int.) Frame agreement with NGO (Fida Int.), The Child Sponsorship Project aims at creating a contact between an orphan in Western Kenya and a sponsor in Finland, and this way to provide support for the orphaned children in education, and strengthen their foster 
families and the community. Western Kenya has children whose mothers have died in childbirth, or both parents have died in AIDS. Local Full Gospel Church at Homa Bay has founded an orphanage home for children under the age of 3 years and expanded the suppo
rt to orphaned children, their homes and the community in the Homa Bay district.
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 grow within their natural family environment. These objecti
ves are reached by working with the targeted children families and communities to empower them to effectively protect and care for the children in cooperation with local authorities and other services providers.  The programme objective is also to alleviat
e poverty in the region and to advocate for the rights of children.The chosen activities will depend on the needs identified in the familiy development plan (FDP) of each participating family. These activities are related to education nutrition hygiene liv
ing conditions medical support counselling childcare children's rights adult literacy basic financial management income generating activity and job finding. The continuation of the programme will focus on activities related to income generating activities 
(IGA). At full potential the program will reach 1000 children and 240 families (mainly women caregivers).
Finland's support to CGAPs secretariat Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) advances the development of inclusive financial services for the poor people donor coordination and methodological harmonization. The program is a successful and important forum for development of methods and co
ordination of actors in the field of microfinance.CGAP promotes sustainable inclusive microfinance for the benefit of the poor people improves the effectiveness of microfinance and coordinates donors and their methodological work. CGAP has paid a lot of at
tention to the consolidation of current achievements improvement in effectiveness and strengthening of developmental and equality impacts as well as efficiency within its ongoing strategy of 2008-2013. CGAP has also invested considerably in synergies betwe
en modern ICT and microfinance.
NGO Support / Literacy for youth in Madagaskar Aims: To provide primary education for young people who are outside the official education system in order to improve their well-being and possibilities for further learning, develop teaching and learning methods (integrated functional), strengthen the cap
acity of local NGOs. Activities: establish learning centers, organize basic and vocational education according to the local needs, train trainers, monitor activities and learning results.
Forest Resource Assessment in Nepal There is a need for strengthening of the forestry sector information systems to enable the realistic preparation of new Master plan and to monitor effectively the impact of recent forest activities after conflict period. The use of TA aim to strengthen the
 procedures needed for the capture and processing of the National level statistics and support district level forest decision making as well dissemination of information. The overall objective is to strengthen national forest policy level decisions.
Forest sector support Finland supports forest sector reform in Kosovo. The project supports the implementation of the Kosovo national forest strategy (2010). In addition it supports integrated forest management and practices and climate change mitigation. The intervention suppo
rts the decentralization process and promotes participation of local communities in municipalities especially in rural areas.
Administrative cost of MFA missions abroad for IRAN Administrative cost of MFA missions abroad for IRAN. Costs generated from the Embassy of Finland
Transitional Demobilization and Reintegration Programme in Africa The TDRP was launched in the second half of 2009 with the ultimate strategic objective of enhancing the prospects for stabilization and recovery in the Great Lakes Region. It has three specific objectives: to provide financial and technical support, to exp
and demobilization and reintegration coverage and to facilitate dialogue information exchange and learning.The TDRP is funded through a multi-donor trust fund managed by the World Bank covering grants to national programs sub-projects regional activities a
nd the management of the TDRP. The trust fund amounts to US$ 33.71 million and as of March 20th 2013 total disbursements stand at US$ 21.8 million.The extension which this programme is responding of the TDRP would continue the demand driven geographical ex
pansion of program activities away from traditional TDRP countries to emerging centers of conflict in West Africa the Sahel and Horn of Africa along with the two Sudan's where there has been and will continue to be a demand for TDRP expertise. Currently th
e needs in these Fragile and Conflict Affect States (FCS) and transnational areas are receiving renewed attention often with more African regional and continental leadership than has been the case in the recent past. This presents an opportunity for the Wo
rld Bank and TDRP donors to enable African leadership through the application of TDRP operational technical and knowledge management expertise and the cross-border analytical and operational perspectives in critical and emerging fragile and conflict affect
ed areas. Particularly the regional approach of the TDRP (built on the preceding MDRP) can be of strategic value when addressing the drivers of conflict and developing and implement a new approach to peace building and stabilization.The programme has been 
successful in its goals to reintegrate to society hundreds of thousands of ex-combatants. Various examples have been reported during the project about how ex-military groups have been successfully integrated back to socieatal activities after handing over 
the weapons and negotiating about their status in the community.
Refugee Advice Centre promotion of development awareness Promotion of development awareness
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finnish Red Cross) Support for Organizational Development . To support the local Red Cross Society to raise its own capacity to be able to respond the local vulnerability in the sustainable manner.
NGO Support / Employment and training programme of young adults Poverty and umemployment of the youth and ex-combatants continues to pose one of the greatest threats to sustainable peace and development. The project aims to improve the socio economic situation of marginalized youths by providing education in functional
 literacy and vocational skills for 500 young adults by 2011. Education is accompanied by traineeship at local companies and start-up of small group enterprises. Also civic rights are addressesed.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Chile The aim of the project is to develop a series of studies with state institutions in order to identify programs policies and challenges in the implementation of international standards in relation to indigenous peoples. The products will be input to the dis
cussion and teaching materials all thanks to research workshops (focus groups) to be held with officials and communities.The studies include: 1) Application of Convention 169 by the Carabineros 2) Study of the Route of addressing violence against women in 
two health centers in primary care Araucania region in the light of the standards of Convention 169 and 3) Application of Convention 169 in the relationship between communities and companies.
Improving learning and teaching environment in primary schools Improving learning and teaching environment in primary schools of remote rural areas of Tanzania.
UNESCO/CapEFA IIEP IPDC UIS GMR Unesco is leading global efforts to achieve the EFA goals and education-related MDG:s by promoting literacy and quality education for all throughout life with a particular emphasis on gender equality youth and reaching society's most vulnerable and margina
lized groups. Special attention is placed on Africa and the least developed countries. Education is the most important MDG promoting peace understanding and dialogue between cultures and peoples. IPDC works to improve the resources of independent and plura
listic media in developing countries. UIS is the official data source for the education-related targets of the MDG:s and EFA. The UIS also provides training and technical assistance to improve data quality and to develop new methodologies.
Administrative cost of MFA central administration for N. + C. AMERICA, REGIONAL Administrative cost of MFA central administration for N. + C. AMERICA, REGIONAL. Costs generated from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Helsinki
Humanitarian Aid to Sudan through WFP Food aid to the victims of the crisis in Sudan
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finn Church Aid) Middle East Regional Programme Office
Youth Leadership The project aims to strenghten the capacities and the economical development of young Peruvians from San Martin and VRAE (Apurimac and Ene River Valleys) Regions in Peru rural regions. 650 youth organized in 65 youth groups will benefit from the project th
rough partisipating in life skills and market oriented entrepreneurship trainings and through expanding their networks and abilities to obtain funding for the development of their small enterprises. The project will improve young people's abilities to netw
ork their employment possibilities and possibilities to sustain group activities.
International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD 9th replenishment The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a specialized agency of the United Nations the objective of which is to empower poor rural women and men in developing countries to achieve higher incomes improved food security and environmenta
l sustainability. Through low-interest loans and grants and working with poor rural people governments donors non-governmental organizations and many other partners IFAD focuses on country-specific solutions which can involve increasing poor rural peoples'
 access to financial services markets technology land and other natural resources. IFAD tackles poverty not only as a lender but also as an advocate for rural poor people. Its multilateral base provides a natural global platform to discuss important policy
 issues that influence the lives of rural poor people as well as to draw attention to the centrality of rural development to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. As a member country of IFAD Finland contributes 12 million euros to the ninth Replenishme
nt of IFAD's resources (2013-2015).
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Moldova Through different actions dealing with the Dniester's environment and basin management the Eco-Tiras involves national stakeholders to promote protection of environment sustainable development andpeace keeping in the region as well as do not allow their se
lf-isolation from the pan-European andWorld environmental policy processes. The Dniester River is a unique subject which concentratesinterests of different population groups and permits to concentrate efforts of both conflicting sidesaround.Main feature of
 this project is that it is considered as a preparatory stage to coming into force the NewDniester River Basin Agreement. Thus active public involvement in this process is essential. Thespecial attention will be given to the ecological NGOs high school and
 university students schoolteachers and university lecturers academics local public authorities and politicians. All thesestakeholders will be informed and attracted to lobby progressive decisions and approaches to sharemodern knowledge on the river manage
ment as well as to apply this knowledge in policy and decisionmaking. Because the trust-building needs more personal and individual approach it will be based onjoint actions implemented within the project (summer school for Youth, expeditions, Dniester Riv
erBasin Conference, a study tour to Munich, jointly conducted assessment of climate change vulnerabilityof Dniester River basin).The project objectives are:- to strengthen the Dniester River basin stakeholders' community (mainly in frames of Moldovanborder
s) in their knowledge skills and inter-linkages in the issues dealing with thetransboundary river and surrounding ecosystems' status the approaches to their management aswell as in raising of youth and general population awareness to prepare the public inv
olvementin Dniester River Commission activities,-to build trust between the youth and intelligence groups of two Dniester banks at presentseparated by the frozen conflict,-to conduct an assessment of climate change vulnerability in the Moldavian part (MD +
 TR) of the Dniester River basin and elaboration of adaptation measures to prevent the furtherenvironment degrading worsening of population well-being and its impoverishment resulting inemigration.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Ukraine A Fund for Local Cooperation project in Ukraine: Organization Letavitsa (48 680 euros). The aim of the project is to improve undersanding about environmental issues and sustainability in industrial cities of Donetsk oblast.
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 training programme and several modular trainings offered
 to 360 young and adult women. The particular problems the project wants to solve are:1) Massive migration especially from the rural into urban areas2) Lack of job opportunities in the villages3) Women?s neglected role in society where they have less oppor
tunities than menThe main objectives of the project are:1) To develop human capital in rural Lebanese villages by specifically training women with skills that will enable them to participate or support rural tourism and/or income generating activities (for
 example cookery English computing etc). 2) To develop a formal vocational education in rural Lebanon through the development of manuals and training rural women in view of establishing or improving micro and small business (MSB) linked to tourism and hosp
itality services in the rural areas of North Lebanon. 3) To contribute to the development of micro and small business enterprises (MSB) by engaging with Lebanese community leaders villagers and experts. The main activities of the project will be:1) Creatio
n of a modular training in entrepreneurship for women in rural areas.2) Promotion of job creation initiatives in the villages (10 presentations in different villages addressing to local authorities and women)3) Offering a 9-month training program for entre
preneur women4) Offering a labour experience in hospitality management and tourism for young womenThe program will include environmental care related training since there is in the area a strong need for a deeper awareness of environmental issues. For exam
ple sessions on hygiene sanitation appropriate waste disposal (important in the hospitality services of the villages), use of biologically degradable products (important in the hospitality services of the villages), use of biologically degradable products 
(important in tourism services/products) etc. will be held to the participants.The project starts from an already existing training center run by PRODES: the Institute of Management and Services (IMS) that works in the aim of job creation in the villages.
Mekong Regional Water Dialogue Phase II The purpose of the project is to mainstream participation by multiple stakeholders including communities and civil society in decision making related to management of water resources for strengthening the sustainability of livelihoods and equity of benefit
 sharing in the Lower Mekong Region.
Frame agreement with NGO (SASK) The members of the women's network RENAFANM work in the informal sector. The project's objective is to improve women's education standards and employment rates.
11. European Development Fund The European Development Fund (EDF) is the main instrument for providing the EU's development aid in the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the overseas countries and territories (OCTs). The principles of the ACP-EU partnership are defined i
n the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement (Cotonou Agreement). The main objectives of the EU-ACP partnership are the reduction of poverty and the gradual integration of the ACP States into the global economy whilst adhering to the aims of sustainable development.
The EDF is established by an internal agreement between the EU Member States for a multi-annual finacial period (11th EDF for 2013-2020) . The EDF is not a part of the EU's general budget.
Frame agreement with NGO (Frikyrklig samverkan FS rf) Quest College, Art + Media Department. The purpose of the project is to provide a leadership training among leaders responsible for educating and caring for the children in our partner's schools
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Dominica The project seeks to promote and encourage community participation in the protection and conservation of endangered Sea Turtles that nest seasonally on the Commonwealth of Dominica?s shores.  The project builds on work already supported by the Government o
f Finland in 2010-2011by continuing to build capacity in the communities around the island, and specifically for community patroller training anti-poaching patrols tagging scientific data collection and census  of sea turtles and the implementation of educ
ation and outreach activities.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Tanzania The overall Goal of the project is to promote and assist Community Based Nature Tourism among the local community of Mwanga so as to conserve their natural environment and improve their living standard. Objectives of the activities include: to build capaci
ty among local community on community Based Nature Tourism, to improve quality services and hospitality behaviour among the local community that satisfies Tourists, to increase tourism and conservation awareness among jobless youth in the project area, to 
increase community knowledge on their natural attractions, to strengthen relationship between local community and other tourism stakeholders to support local community on developing tourism business, to support local entrepreneurship groups to improve thei
r products. Target group is all 16 wards of Mwanga District in Kilimanjaro regionFunds are requested for the following activities, Capacity building training to 160 local community on principals and impact of community based nature tourism to the local com
munity, organise a special tour to visit different attractions, organise a special Tourism day, Establish Mwanga Community Based nature Tourism Information Centre, Forming 16 platforms for community Based nature tourismExpected results of the activities: I
ncreased tourism and conservation awareness among jobless youth: increased knowledge on their natural attraction, Increased number of local and International tourists, improved local community economy and nature conservation