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FLC: Tax Justice network - taking a step towards achieving Tax Justice in East Africa through citizen-driven actions In recent years taxation regimes in developing countries have begun to attract serious attention in the development arena. While developed countries have had effectively designed tax systems that guarantee resource mobilization and utilization to accelerat
e socio-economic growth and welfare creation many developing countries especially in Sub-Saharan Africa lag behind. Performance in tax revenue generation in many African states is relatively low compared to the developed economies. African countries over t
he last few years have improved revenue collection with tax to GDP ratio increasing from a low of 15% in the 1980s to an average of 20% which is still comparatively low in comparison to OECD countries that have an average of 35%. The potential of African c
ountries to increase their tax revenue is hampered by a number of factors which are mostly domestic but international factors related to the global financial landscape also play a role. A bid to attract foreign capital and investment has led governments to
 engage in ?a race to the bottom? with governments providing a wide range of tax incentives to businesses. Studies have however illustrated the large scope of revenue losses. The East African Community approximately loses up to US $2.8 billion a year from 
all tax incentives and exemptions.2 These revenue losses deprive the countries of critical resources needed for poverty reduction and economic development. The debate on taxation as a development tool is still relatively new particularly in Africa where de
velopment financing is still heavily dependent on external borrowing foreign aid and revenue from natural resources. The dialogue is still quite new among African Civil Society and there are hardly discussions focusing on pro-poor taxation for sustainable 
development. Taxation has also been viewed as a technical and specialist field and hence received limited interest. Many CSOs lack the technical knowledge and skills to engage in advocacy on national and international tax policies that support development.
 The trend is not any different in East Africa and hence the need to undertake activities aimed at creating awareness and promoting citizen participation in the advocacy for fair taxation
F.a: Mumbai Slum Community Development Project Regional Community Development Training Programme. The Regional Community Development Training Programme, which consolidates several individual community projects in different parts of India, seeks to motivate and train local partners for effective communi
ty work of their own. That is, to independently develop those local communities in which they work. The partners of Fida around India are mainly large local churches, but also a group of volunteers is involved. The on-going training programme is a direct r
esult of the partners’ own call for assistance and support to help them to independently do community development work. One indicator of the programme’s success is the excellent team spirit that exists between the partners at all levels. Through this p
rogramme the partners gain professional know-how and tools for implementing community development projects as well as training at various levels. Special attention is paid to motivating the partners towards working with the most vulnerable and disadvantage
d people groups within their society. As the partners’ knowledge and skills in community development build up, they in turn can train their partnering communities in e.g. health and gender questions, micro enterprise know-how and environmental issues. Th
is, again, will lead towards improvement in the social and economic status of the local people.
FLC: Strengthening Good Governance at the Local Level by National Alliance for Local Economic Development-NALED The goal of the project is to strengthen good governance accountability transparency credibility and efficiency in Nis and Subotica by providing expertise. One of the key project goals is to enable sustainable democratic development in targeted cities thro
ugh adoption of good governance principles. The project will also contribute to better understanding of good governance in the general public and create opportunities for involving civil sector in the decision making process.
Sustainable Management of Land and Environment SMOLE II SMOLE II: maankäyttö- ja ympäristöhallinnan tuki II-vaihe SMOLE aims at reducing absolute poverty in the society through environmentally sound land management and socio-economic development. The Project consists of four main components: 1. Institutional Development 2. Land Management 3. Environmental Management 4
. Awareness Raising. Specific objective for SMOLE II which will cover the period of June 2009 – May 2013 is to achieve the medium level of operations and feasibility in sustainable land and environmental management. Sansibarin kestävän maankäytön ja ympäristön hallinnan tukihanke SMOLE käynnistettiin vuonna 2003. SMOLE:n ensimmäisessä vaiheessa (2005-2009) pyritään saavuttamaan Sansibarin kehityspoliittisten tavoitteiden pohjalta luotujen Zanzibar Vision 20
20:n ja Sansibarin köyhyydenvähentämisstrategian tavoitteita ympäristöystävällisen maankäytön ja yhteiskunnallistaloudellisen kehityksen avulla. Nyt valmisteilla oleva toteutuksen toinen vaihe SMOLE II (2009-2013) jatkaa keskipitkän ja pitkän ai
kavälin strategisten tavoitteiden toteuttamista SMOLEn ensimmäisen vaiheen arviontitulosten ja Sansibarin viranomaisten ja sidosryhmien taholta saatujen suositusten pohjalta.SMOLE-hankkeen taustalla ovat moninaiset maanomistusolosuhteisiin maankäyttöö
n rantavyöhykkeen suojeluun ja käyttöön ympäristöhallintoon sekä luonnonvarojen käyttöön liittyvät haasteet. SMOLEn ensimmäisen vaiheen (2005-2009) yleinen kehitystavoite on vähentää köyhyyttä sekä parantaa ihmisten elinolosuhteita ympär
istön kannalta kestävällä maankäytön hallinnalla sekä sosioekonomisen kehityksen kautta. SMOLE II:n perustavoitteena on saavuttaa strategiassa (SMOLE Strategic Plan for 2005-2020) mainitut keskitason operationaaliset maankäytön suuunnitteluun ja j
a ympäristönsuojeluun liittyvät tavoitteet neljän vuoden aikana (2009/10-2013/14).
ASA-10 Project Monitoring Itäisen Aasian ja Oseanian yksikön hankeseuranta ASA-10 Development cooperation project planning evaluation and monitoring Hankeseurantamäärärahaa käytetään Itäisen Aasian ja Oseanian yksikön (ASA-10) tekemään hankeseurantaan yhteistyömaissa. Sitä käytetään erityisesti evaluaatioihin tilintarkastuksiin seurantamatkoihin tarvittaviin selvityksiin ja arviointeihin
. Määrärahaa käytetään myös Suomen ja Vietnamin transitiostrategian tukemiseen.
F.a: Capacity Building Through Voluntarism The project aims at increasing the capacity of FCA’s southern partner organisations or FCA’s regional offices through the work of skilled volunteers, and to give operational programme support through expert volunteer deployment.  In 2015, the focus wil
l be on education sector in coordination with the Teachers without Borders network.The objectives of the project are twofold: 1. Increasing the capacities of FCA’s local partners and regional office according to the needs in the field. The expert volunte
ers will focus on capacity building activities (workshops, trainings etc.), support and training of local staff and local communities. After analysing the needs, the local partner will set up a realistic capacity development trajectory. The project contrib
utes to enhancing the quality of FCA’s deployment capacity in different thematic fields and on programme level.2. Strengthening thematic expertise globally and in FinlandExpert volunteers will have the opportunity to engage in one of the selected partner
 organisations’ work in developing countries and gain relevant work experience. The aim is to send 5 volunteers for 6 months each, allowing the volunteers deepen the impact of their work. Through this volunteer programme FCA contributes to build capacity
 of future experts in different thematic sectors and serve FCAs roster of experts.In 2015, the thematic focus continues to be the Right to Education in coordination with the Teachers without Borders network. Most of the field offices have identified needs 
for education specialists, but if needed, other specialists can also be recruited:East Africa: an agribusiness specialist or a teacherWest Africa: a teacher (when the Ebola threat has passed)Latin America and the Caribbean: a French-speaking education spec
ialistAsia: an education specialist for the Cambodian Ministry of EducationMiddle East: an Arabic-speaking education specialist for a refugee campRights- holders /beneficiaries are teachers and staff working in e.g. training centers in refugee camps, vocat
ional training students,  children in need of specialised education; farmers.Implementing partners:FCA regional offices and their local partners.
The Peace Initiative in Bay and Bakool Kirkon Ulkomaanavun säätiö; Rauhanaloite Bayn ja Bakoolin alueilla Overall objective: to contribute to enhanced political stability in Bay and BakoolSpecific objective: Local and regional mediation and conflict resolution mechanisms are strengthened reducin the number of active conflicts in Bay and BakoolThe direct benifi
ciaries are: Clanleaders Religious leaders Media Actors Youth and Women as well as the regional authorities and the partner. Päämäärä: Edistää poliitista vakautta Bayn ja Bakoolin alueillaTarkoitus: Paikalliset ja alueelliset sovittelu- ja konfliktinratkaisumekanismit ovat vahvistuneet vähentäen aktiivisten konfliktien määrää Bayn ja Bakoolin alueillaKohderyhmät: K
laanien johtjat uskonnolliset johtajat media nuoret naiset sekä paikallisvirtanomaiset ja paikallinen kumppani.
F.a: Facilitating community and local government in the forest management through community forestry scheme in Rejang Lebong District Facilitating community and local government in the forest management through community forestry scheme in Rejang Lebong District
F.a: Kibreli Capability Strengthening Project Rehab for visually impaired. The purpose of the project is to provide mediaskills to young people in order to empower them as media practitioners to influence society with responsible, democratic and ethically uncorrupted media work.
Cenidh - civil society organization in Nicaragua Cenidh - nicaragualainen ihmisoikeusjärjestö In the area of advocacy Cenidh has made it possible for civil society organizations in coordination with Cenidh and in many cases under it's leadership to achieve concrete results in advocay actions that contribute to human rights respect at international 
regional and national level. Hankkeen kehitystavoitteena on myötävaikuttaa demokratian ja oikeusvaltioperiaatteen kehitykseen sekä vähentää ihmisoikeusloukkausten rankaisemattomuutta Nicaraguassa. Välittöminä tavoitteina on edistää kansalaisten tietoisuutta oikeuksistaan ja
 kykyä niiden puolustamiseen sekä vahvistaa maan institutionaalisia ja juridisia rakenteita ihmisoikeuksien suojelun ja toteutumisen kannalta.Kehityspoliittisen ohjelman mukaan Nicaraguassa tuetaan jatkossakin kansalaisyhteiskuntaa. Latinalaisessa Amerik
assa yleensä ottaen Suomi tukee demokratia ja ihmisoikeuskehitystä.
FLC: Green Skills Training in Rural Areas PYM: Vihreiden taitojen koulutus maaseudulla In the project immigrants and young people will be trained to improve thermal insulation of houses and build energy-efficient stoves. The training will be offered by vocational schools and private training providers in close collaboration with the building
 sector employers. The project will promote green economy. At the same time the project will support the improvement of rural living conditions. Hankkeessa koulutetaan siirtolaisia ja nuoria  asuntojen lämpöeristyken parantamiseen ja rakentamaan energiatehokkaita uuneja. Koulutuksen tuottavat ammattikoulut ja yksityiset koulutuksen tarjoajat läheisessä yhteistyössä rakennussektorin työnantaj
ien kanssa. Hankkeessa edistetään vihreää taloutta. Samalla tuetaan maaseudun asuinolojen parantamista.
Humanitarian assistance; Finn Church Aid Humanitaarinen apu; Kirkon Ulkomaanapu Humanitarian assistance: Education in emergencies in Uganda Vuoden 2015 humanitaarisen avun varainjaossa Kirkon Ulkomaanavulle myönnetään rahoitusta yhteensä kahdeksaan operaatioon (Syyria kriisi Jordania Keski-Afrikan tasavalta Liberia ja Sierra Leone Etelä-Sudan Uganda Somalimaa Myanmar ja Kongon demokraaatt
inen tasavalta). Tuen kokonaismäärä on 4 miljoonaa euroa. Kirkon Ulkomaanavun humanitaarisen avun toiminnot keskittyvät erityisesti koulutukseen ja toimeentulon edistämiseen. Lisäksi operaatiot sisältävät ruokaturvan parantamiseen tähtääviä to
imia psykososiaalisen hyvinvoinnin edistämistä ja vesi- sanitaatio- ja hygieniasektorin toimintoja.
F.a: Implementation of Agricultural Businesses for Persons with Visual Impairment in Hoya de Chambo A rural group of visually impaired persons living of agriculture and animal husbandry want to intensify their livelihoods through entrepreneurship supported by a professional specialist.
FLC: Raising awareness and capacity building on human trafficking in Peru - Phase II Second phase of a successful former project funded by us which aims at calling public attention on the existence of human trafficking + building capacities among government officers for an effective implementation of public policies to prevent and fight su
ch a crime. Human trafficking in Peru involves particularly women children and indigenous people. This new phase pays special attention at strenghening regional watchdogs across the country and their network./ Whole country of Peru.
Marine resarch ICI project Merentutkimuksen IKI-hanke The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has since 2012 implemented an Institutional Cooperation Instrument (ICI) Project on marine research (Marinam) with Namibian National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC) that is part of Namibia's Ministry 
of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR). The Project is planned to continue until 2015. MFMR commissioned a fisheries and marine research vessel from the STX Finland shipyard with concessional credit loan from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Fin
land. The ICI Project was designed to complement the acquisition of this vessel. The aim of the Marinam Project is to achieve conditions where the regulation of fish stocks in Namibia is based on valid scientific information. In order to reach this goal th
e research vessel has to be used efficiently. Training of the crew has a key role in this and as part of the ICI Project the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) has been training the crew in the use of the research vessel. It was the wish of th
e Namibian partner to include the SAMK training component in the Project. The aim of the ICI Project's SAMK training component is that the research vessel is used efficiently and safely. The training has progressed as planned but at the same time a need fo
r further training has arisen. A recent evaluation of the concessional credit loan project also recommended further training for the crew of the vessel. As the training component has an impact on the whole ICI Project and the efficient use of the vessel fu
rther financing of the component is justifiable. Suomen ympäristökeskus SYKE on toteuttanut vuodesta 2012 merentutkimuksen IKI-hanketta (Marinam) Namibian kalastus- ja merivarojenministeriön (MFMR) alaisen Namibian merentutkimuskeskuksen (NatMIRC) kanssa. Hanke jatkuu vuoteen 2015. IKI-hanke käynnist
ettiin täydentämään Suomen korkotukiluottohanketta jolla Namibia hankki Suomesta STX:n telakalta merentutkimusaluksen. Marinam-hankkeen pääasiallisena tavoitteena on että Namibian kalavarantojen sääntely perustuu asianmukaiseen tieteelliseen tieto
on. Tavoitteen toteutuminen edellyttää että merentutkimusalusta käytetään tehokkaasti. Miehistön koulutus on tässä avainasemassa ja osana hanketta Satakunnan ammattikorkeakoulu SAMK on kouluttanut miehistöä aluksen käyttämisessä. SAMK-kompone
ntti sisällytettiin hankkeeseen namibialaisten toiveesta.IKI-hankkeen SAMK-komponentin tavoitteena on tutkimusaluksen tehokas ja turvallinen käyttö. Koulutus on edennyt suunnitelmien mukaisesti mutta samalla on ilmennyt tarve lisäkoulutukselle. Aluksen
 miehistön lisäkoulutusta puoltaa myös korkotukihankkeesta tehty evaluaatio. SAMK-komponentti vaikuttaa koko IKI-hankkeen tavoitteen saavuttamiseen ja merentutkimusaluksen tehokkaaseen hyödyntämiseen joten lisäkoulutuksen järjestäminen on perustelt
ua.
F.a: Integrated Community Dev. Programme Community development project: Improving food security, right based training, farmer's training, income generating project training, environment protection, support for the most vulnerable (hiv positives, slaves and ex slaves), DRR.   Living conditions are
 difficult because of poverty, natural disasters and human rights offenses.  Development objective is that people know and claim their rights ,  the environment issues are taken care of, disaster preparedness is improved and livelihood improved by training
 and micro credits. As results the slavery practise is reduced, ex slaves know their rights and are capable to create micro projects and source of livelihood enchanced, ID papers for everyone , rights fullfilled, for example the rigt to education for all c
hildren in communities, girls premature mariages reduced, bank of cereals, better crops and hiv stigmatisation reduced. Beneficieries are the poorest ant the most vulnerables communities in Mauritania. Our partner is LWF World service, Mauritania program w
ho has the compenece of right based approach ans a long experience of the context of Mauritania.
Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Senegal Nuorten yrittäjyyden tukeminen Senegalissa The project Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Senegal aims to unlock the entrepreneurial leadership potential of disadvantaged youth. It offers practical hands-on entrepreneurial experiences to youth that help them to develop social business projects tha
t utilize market-based solutions to address social and environmental needs and engage communities. The project supports 600 disadvantaged youth aged 16 to 29 years old by offering them 10 ?months long training on life skills and entrepreneurship. The train
ings will include life skills different aspects of establishing and administering an enterprise ICT skills and the principles of sustainable social entrepreneurship. Participating in voluntary activities in favor of young people?s communities is a part of 
the training. In addition to the training the youth receive mentoring and coaching from business professionals and various forums are organized for them to network with other entrepreneurs and potential investors.Among the 600 beneficiaries 300 best busine
ss plans are selected to further development process by the end of the training process. The selected young entrepreneurs are offered incubation services at Synapse?s premises and assisted to find funding for their small scale enterprises. The remaining 30
0 beneficiaries are connected to the businesses launched by the selected youth or are offered additional assistance in their business plan- development and raising startup funding. The project will ensure that all youth who do not receive incubation servic
es will be assigned a business professional coach. Coaches will meet regularly with the youth to give them individualized advice on their income-generating activities. The youth will also be linked with Synapse?s Business Clubs ?activities where they can n
etwork with other entrepreneurial youth Hanke tarjoaa 600 vähäosaiselle 16 -29 - vuotiaalle nuorelle koulutusta elämäntaidoissa ja yrittäjyydessä. Nuoret saavat tukea sosiaalisten yritysten perustamiseen jotka vastaavat heidän yhteisöissään esiintyviin tarpeisiin ja työllistävät yht
eisöjen jäseniä.
F.a: Alianza Biodiversidad, new challenges, new commitments The project strengthens the social movement working for agricultural biodiversity in Latin America, led by local communities, indigenous peoples and peasant organisations aiming for food sovereignty. The work focuses on capacity-building of the movement in
 themes related to food sovereignty and agricultural biodiversity. It entails the following activities: i) production and dissemination of the Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas magazine in both Spanish and Portuguese, ii) maintenance of the Biodiversidadl
a.org website, iii) production of education material to support the social movements, iv) organization of regional analysis and coordination workshops, v) organization of local level trainings, vi) organization of a distance learning course on public polic
ies on agricultural biodiversity and vii) internal coordination of the Biodiversity Alliance implementing the activities. The Alliance consists of 10 civil society organisations across Latin America.The project beneficiaries include indigenous peoples and 
peasant social movements, rural producers, urban consumers, academic and pedagogic societies as well as media in support of the social movements. 10 000 copies are printed of each of the four editions of the Biodiversidad magazine annually, the website has
 60 000 visitors monthly, the distance learning course has 40 participants, whereas the workshops have 300.Acción por la Biodiversidad is an Argentine NGO registered in 2004. It promots agricultural diversity in Latin America. AcBio maintains Biodiversida
dla, a website launched in 2000, focusing on agricultural biodiversity in Latin America. The site receives approximately 1 000 daily visitors from grass root organisations, social movements, media and universities. The site’s electronic bulletin has 10 0
00 subscribers. Since 1994 AcBio together with ten Latin American NGOs has produced a magazine called Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas. The magazine is published four times a year both in Spanish and in Portuguese. In addition to electronic format, altog
ether 10 000 paper copies are printed in ten Latin American countries.AcBio collaborates with several national and international networks through sharing of information, providing thematic support, training and carrying out joint campaigns and activities. 
Its main allies include the international peasant movement Via Campesina and GRAIN, which promotes agricultural biodiversity on global level.
F.a: Enhancing the food security of agropastoral and pastoral community in Somaliland (Maroodi Jeex Region) The food security situation in Somaliland is one of the worst in the world due to draught and extreme poverty. Somaliland is mostly arid desert  scrublands and less than 10 per cent of its area is arable land. Bad availability of factors of production, des
troyed infrastructure and poor know-how restrict the already low agriculture. In addition to agriculture also other possibilities of making a living are poor.  The project aims to improve methods that increase the soil fertility and solutions that support 
adaptation to the climate change. Two communities, Haleeya and Jaleelo, participate to the project. The expected results of the project are: the crop production capacity of the household level is increased, the capacity of farmer’s co-operatives  is impr
oved, value addition businesses is increased in target villages and the livestock productivity is improved. The two ISF’s food security projects are implemented in close co-operation with two organizations. The final beneficiaries of the project in 2015 
are about 160 families and 21 per cent of the beneficiaries are women. The project in Maroodi Jeex region is implemented by ISF’s long-term local partner organization Candlelight fot Health, Environment and Education (CLHE).