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International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims Core support for the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRTC) which is a health-based umbrella organization that supports the rehabilitation of torture victims and the prevention of torture worldwide. IRCT was founded in 1985 initial
ly as the international arm of the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims and from 1997 as an independent international membership organization.  IRCT aims to ensure that torture victims are able to access appropriate health-based torture r
ehabilitation services that torture victims are able to have full access to justice and to contribute towards the prevention of torture worldwide.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Namibia The project aims at 1) providing assistance and services to the small scale mining community including greater income generation mecahanism and thus improving the living standards. 2) To invest in long tersm sustainability for ERSMA in order to continue to
 support the small scale mining community. Activities include following: 1. ERSMA fair trade buying scheme establised 2. ERSMA value addition facility operational3. Establish a market for finished products4. Awareness raising and information sharing within
 the community regarding various issues such as HIV/AIDS TB gender etc.
Frame agreement with NGO (Pelastakaa lapset) Working Children - Actors of their own protection
Asian Development Fund AsDF XI The Asian Development Fund (ADF) offers loans at very low interest rates as well as grants to help reduce poverty in the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) poorest borrowing countries.The ADF XI replenishment negotiations concluded in April 2012 with a total r
eplenishment of SDR 7.9 billion ($12.4 billion) to provide critical financial support to fight poverty in the Asia and Pacific region over the period 2013 to 2016. The key mandate of ADF XI period will be to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific through A
DB's Strategy 2020 and its three complementary development agendas: (i) inclusive growth (ii) environmentally sustainable growth and (iii) regional integration. ADF XI will also focus on Strategy 2020?s five core areas of operations: infrastructure finance
 sector development education environment and regional cooperation and integration (RCI). Within this strategic context ADB will give special considerations to three special themes: gender fragile and conflict-affected situations and food security.Finland'
s contribution to ADF XI is 21 million EUR.
University of Helsinki - INTA / Nicaragua,  support of two PhD students 2013-2015 The aim of the project is to support the studies of two Nicaraguan researches to reach their PhD:s
Frame agreement with NGO (Plan Finland) Strengthening the implementation of the disaster management strategy of Plan Dominican Republic
Frame agreement with NGO (Pelastakaa lapset) The project aims to ensure effective child centered protection systems are  in place in intervention areas and Increase access to child protection services for children
Upgrading Electricity Network The main objective of the Project is by installing 5 MiniSCADA electricity network and control systems in Da Nang Nha Trang Hue Qui Nhon and Buon Ma Thuot Cities in Central Vietnam to achieve a better electricity supply system via the improvement of the re
liability of supply. This will be achieved by faster discovery and repair of faults and the subsequent more rapid restoration of the electricity supply as well as via the improved quality of voltage and frequency and will benefit a large number of people a
lso in the countryside.
Suomen Somalia-verkosto promotion of development awareness Promotion of development awareness
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Kosovo The overall objective of the project is to give strength and momentum to pilot micro-finance projects and broader support to women in two communities in extreme poverty empowering them through selfemployment and improved personal skills. The specific objec
tives of the project are: Improved literacy and thus articulacy and capability for a group of women. Having seen the impact it can make on women's life-choices and the quality of life of their families we want women's literacy classes to continue for 6 mon
ths and to be able to offer the classes to another 10 women from the community in Fushe Kosove/ Kosovo Polje who have expressed interest. Two sustainable micro-finance projects.
Wider Europe Initiative, Security and Development Research Wider Europe Initiative Security Cluster (2009-2013) refers to a selected group research institutes that focus on Security and Development Research in Eastern Europe South Caucasus and Central Asia. The selected research  institutes seek partnerships from 
the local research institutes with the aim of building longer term networks and carrying out research projects. The Cluster comprises of 8 development research projects aiming at highlighting the link between security and development increasing interaction
 amongst researches and research institutes as well as building confidence in the region. Budget for the activities is 2009-2013 is 25 million euros.
Support to EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) Finland supports the Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership under its Action Area 4: Technology Innovation and Capacity Development which aims at developing the next generation of energy professionals in Africa and suppo
rting technology development and innovation. With contributions from Austria and Finland this project focuses on two sets of activities: 1) a policy and planning exercise and analysis in order to conceptually further develop the Action Area and thereby gui
de activities on renewable energy research innovation and education in Africa and 2) the provision of support to vocational training and higher education. Based on a labour market requirements analysis and subsequent capacity needs assessment for these act
ivities activities on vocational training and higher education will be initiated by partner demand but will notably rest on the prime principle of the RECP: complementing already existing donor initiatives (such as the Environment and Energy Partnership (E
EP) supported by the governments of Finland Austria and UK). In order to best complement such existing initiatives activities will initially predominantly focus on Eastern Southern and potentially West Africa. Activities will be implemented through the EU 
Energy Initiative  Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) a EU funding instrument to support policy-level work on energy sector. The instrument is supported by a small secretariat hosted by GIZ. EUEI PDF that has extensive experience in the energy sector
 in Africa can draw on the network of education specialists within GIZ as well as from Finland Austria and other EU countries. The consultancy services for the project are tendered under GIZ procurement rules and published on their web site.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Honduras To help improve the capacity of indigenous organizations aimed to ensure mechanisms of governance  in  management of natural resources and the demand for indigenous rights in the Miskito territory.
UNU-WIDER twinning with AERC UNU-WIDER has established a twinning partnership with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) based in Nairobi Kenya. The purpose of the partnership is to promote collaboration between the two institutions and to boost their research and capacity-b
uilding activities. The four-year (2010-13) initiative consists of three main components: 1) establishing and supporting a a team of UNU-WIDER researchers in Nairobi 2) collaborating with AERC in several areas and 3) bringing researchers from AERC to Helsi
nki for capacity-building purposes. The initiative will bring UNU-WIDER closer to the African countries and will also expand its outreach to other research institutions as well as policy makers in Africa. The initiative will also add crucial weight to AERC
's research capacity through the sharing of knowledge and training with UNU-WIDER researchers. The collaboration will also add to capacity building at local level as well as to promoting research in the field of Development Economics.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Vietnam The project has an overall objective to enhance the adaptive capacity and mitigation to climate change for communities to develop sustainable agricultural production following market orientation at sandy areas of Quang Tri province. The main activities inc
lude i) developing agriculture production at the sandy areas following goods trading and climate change adaptation through action research to create and select certain crops production model with climate change adaptation, ii) enhancing capacity on market 
access for local farmers through training establishing farmer groups for production cooperation establishing network with enterprises and developing lable of agriculture production in the context of climate change, and iii) integrating climate change into 
the agricultural production development strategy of the sandy areas in Quang tri province through training on climate change and agriculure production for officers of agriculture sector and supporting the establishment of agriculture production development
 strategy for sandy areas.
NGO Support / HIV/AIDS Prevention 2013: HIV/AIDS is one of the major social factors limiting the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Ethiopia. To assist the national efforts in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and mitigating its impact the project is targeting to improv
e and sustain the living standard of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and vulnerable groups in Jimma town and Agaro town. The cross-cutting development policy objectives will be taken into account since the project 
will be working with people living with HIV/AIDS orphans vulnerable women children and youth trying to fight against stigmatisation and trying to give them their full place in the community they are living in focusing especially on women. In addition to th
at the project will offer needy children the possibility to go to school.The beneficiaries of the project will be selected from all the cultural and religious backgrounds. The project will not create any new structure but will work in close collaboration w
ith the goverment bodies the town administration and the community based organizations.The main beneficiaries of the projects are people living with HIV/AIDS orphans and vunerable children high risk groups including unemployed youth and vunerable women and
 in extension the whole community.The key project activities are:- Orphan care and support program: monthly financial and material support medical help life skills training and income generating activities for guardians.- PLWHA rehabilitation care and supp
ort program: monthly financial and material support medical service counseling life skill training and income generating activities.- High risk women and youth self-reliance program: small scale business/micro-enterprise training and income generating acti
vities.- Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) program and community mobilization.- Information Education and Communication (IEC) program/Behavioural Change Communication (BCC).- Capacity building/trainings.For the second phase of the project the number o
f catchment areas will be reduced to two: Agaro town and Jimma town. During the first phase of the project the working area was very wide with long geographic distances and the work could not be as efficient as it should. The latest data we collected from 
the different areas showed that the HIV problem is very big in Agaro and Jimma whereas it is not as obvious in the other places.
Rural MV Power Network Rehabilitation in four provinces The objective is to improve the capacity of electricity supply to meet the increasing load demand in the future reduce power loss ensure quality and reliability of electricity supply and reduce the selling price to households. The project has been on the d
rawing board for some time. The original total loan amount was estimated to be about EUR 6.0 million (1999). The project was divided into two phases and the first phase (EUR 3.5 million) has supposedly already been implemented. ELTEL applied in January 200
4 for a buyer credit guarantee for the remaining amount of EUR 2.5 million but later (2005) the size of the project was raised to about EUR 9.4 million and the concessional credit requirement to about EUR 7.2 million. The present Feasibility Study proposes
 a concessional credit of about EUR 6.5 million.
Cameroon in a Pot ? Women?s right to food security and own income AIMThe aim is to inform the audience (45 000 members of the Martha Organization and the greater regional audiences via mass media) on the similarities and particularities of the struggle towards well-being in our society?s history and an African women?s as
sociation?s work taking the case of home economics extension education as an example that can effectively raise the quality of life in families and promote women?s rights to employment.ACTIVITIES AND TIMINGThe activities that will be carried out during the
 2 year period are the following:1. The national Martha Association in cooperation with ACESF-CA Cameroon and film production company produces 3 x 5 to 10 minute short films on Cameroonian women?s everyday life (themes e.g.: work day in market place partic
ipation in training ?Cameroonian cooking show? in local home) and promote these among Martha members and other regional audiences. 2. The national Martha Association in consultations with the Uusimaa District Association ACESF-CA Cameroon and Cameroonian r
esidents in Finland produces course material for a 3 hour Cameroonian cooking course combining information on women?s life and food culture with practical cooking lessons. 3. The national Martha Association organizes a one day training for interested Martt
a members from all districts (altogether 16 districts all over the country) combining theory and cooking lessons in practice so that they can disseminate the information to their own districts. One to two members will be invited from each district. 4. At l
east 5 Martha Districts organize cooking courses 3 to 4 courses per district with 5 to 10 participants in each. 5. This will lead to having 100 to 200 local experts that can carry the same kind of evenings in their local associations. 6. The National Marth
a Association in cooperation with regional districts and ACESF-CA Cameroon will organize a tour of mini-seminars in 5 districts (e.g. Helsinki Lahti Tampere Kokkola Joensuu.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Nepal The overall objective of the project is to  create national movement Teach for Nepal of young people to enhance quality of education in public schools in Nepal.  The project aims to attract outstanding university graduates and young professionals to teach 
in public and community schools for two years as Fellows primarily in maths science and English to decrease achievement gaps that exists between private and public schools students. The project will be co-funded with Nepalese private sector companies. Priv
ate sector will also offer working placements for the Fellows after their two years engagement is public schools.
Msingi Girls to School Project Msingi Friendship Association ja Songela Development Association are building a dormitorio for girls in Msingi. The project was started because parents do not want to send their daughters to school when the distance to school is long. In Tanzania the infla
tion is very high. The expenses have overrun the budget even though the villagers have made a lot of voluntary work. In the end of 2012 the house should be ready but interior work is completely undone and some of the windows and doors are still missing. St
udents may not move in before the interior work is done. The original budget which was made by the Tanzanian partner was very optimistic and incomplete. During the first half of 2013 the house should be finished and furnishing completed. Furniture such as 
double-decker beds and wardrobes are made by student work at local Folk Development College.
Youth Resource Centre In Sota Southern Ghana the small godvillage of Joensuu-Ghana Registered Association 16 girls have dropped out from school during the past five years 13 of them due to a teenage pragnancy according to the statistics kept by the teachers. Teenage pregnancies
 occur already in primary school because kids often start school late and therefore girls may already be14-17yrs old in primary school.Teenage pregnancies are due to gender inequality the attitudes of parents towards teenage pregnancies the attitudes of me
n and boys towards females and poverty and the high illiteracy level of women which prevents them to know their rights.Early unprotected sex increases the incidences of Hiv/Aids and other STDs.The main objectives of the project are to reduce teenage pregna
ncies by 30% to halve the number of girl child drop outs to achieve better health which means less incidences of Hiv/Aids STDs malaria and diarrhea the attitude changes among males towards females and poverty reduction through education.Together with the m
ain objectives of our project we are putting into practice also the development political cross cutting objectives, gender equality reducing inequality and through better education climate sustainability too.The main beneficiaries in the project are teenag
e grils disabled girls included and teenage mothers. The situation of girls cannot however become better without the attitude changes of men boys and mothers so the entire Sota community will be the final beneficiary.The key project activity is the after s
chool club (2-3hrs) five times a week in Sota Basic School.In the club the youth are helped with their assignments basic life skills and hand skills are taught to them they are also given health and ethical education. Small girls will alsohave one club day
 a week because the earlier you start the better the results.The teachers have already this year started an after school club for girls once a week by the support of Joensuu-Ghana Registered Association.Once a month there is a family day on Saturday with c
ounselling of parents and programme for the families.  The school is encouraged to continue their culture group as part of the project to strengthen the roots. Twice a year there will be an excursion.In addition to these a local doctor will lecture to the 
entire community five times a year and once a year screening will be arranged to find the Hiv-positives and other diseases.
NGO Support / Godinlabe Primary school project The state of schools in Godinlabe Galgadud is miserable in 16 years the schools have been totally neglected and the school houses have deteriorated. Not one public school is functioning at the moment and the children of poor families are out of education s
ervices. During the first year the project will repair 6 classrooms. Two seminars will be organized one on curriculum development and the other for parents on the importance of education. Four teachers will be recruited. The second year another six classro
oms will be repaired. The projects aims that 600 young people will get their primary education during three years. 2009-2010: School repairing and support to the school continues. 2011-2013: Secondary school will start in order to improve student opportuni
ties for higher education.
Planning of Interventions The purpose of the intervention is to use the funds for planning of the projects/programmes before the actual implementation of the project/programme and during the implementation for quality control and assurance. The purpose of allocated funds is to guar
antee adequate resources to efficient programme cooperation and programme design as well as evaluation and follow-up of the programmes.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Zambia "Support to Zambia Land Alliance Work Plan 2013. The project is continuation to the ""Support to Zambia Land Alliance Work Plan September 2009-September 2012"" which is based on the ZLA strategic plan 2009-2013. Activities to be implemented :Land rights an
d empowerment programme a)To promote security of customary land and sustainable land use by poor men women and youths especially in ZLA operational areas b)To promote and protect the rights of displaced and potential internally displaced persons and minori
ty groups in ZLA operational areas c)To strengthen local accountability in the land administration system for the urban and rural poor in ZLA operational areas d)To advocate for appropriate and timely reforms of laws and policies pertaining to land deliver
y and administration especially for the poor and vulnerableCommunication and networking programmea)To provide land related information in innovative and appropriate formats for use by stakeholders at local national and international levelsInstitutional dev
elopment and management programme a)To review and strengthen the structures linkages and operations of the District Land Alliances b)To improve ZLA's governance and management effectiveness and sustainability of its organizational programmes"
Sustainable Use of Forest Resources In Mali prefecture Guinea the small farmers face challenges such as drought poor soil pests and poor quality of agricultural materials leading to small crops, high level unemployment deepening absolute poverty and food shortage, and the region's desolation
. In addition a warming climate is changing crop conditions and results which requires the development of agricultural methods. The project's aim is to strengthen long term human security and resilience of the rural communities in the face of unstable envi
ronmental and economic circumstances. The main goal of the project is to improve local livelihood strategies and food security by increasing equality self-sufficiency ownership and planning in the villages. The aim is to approach the project's target in a 
holistic way in which the communities' social human ecological and economic capital are strengthened in diverse ways: 1) by carrying out a baseline study and scrutinizing the causes of malnutrition among women and children (food quality sufficiency equal d
istribution and storing), 2) by developing innovative agricultural and forestry methods to be adapted in local conditions, these methods will be gathered into a good practices resource bank, 3) by creating conditions for collective action such as co-operat
ives and food groups, 4) by offering material assistance to implement the activities, 5) by organizing multidisciplinary training to support the activities. By increasing  community resources and collective action together with training poverty and local c
onflicts can be alleviated. The special aim is to improve the employment of women and the children's living conditions. The project continues many activities that have been implemented in the previous project such as regeneration of natural resources and b
enefiting from their environmental resources and knowhow. The previous project focused on environmental protection which has improved the land productivity. The central principle in the continuation project is to address the connection between environmenta
l protection and food security of which importance has been observed in the Mali villages. The aim of the project is also to create new practices based on the existing ones. The new practices include collective action groups (co-operatives unions food grou
ps) and the generation of a regional resource bank of which livelihood methods can benefit the villages in the long-term.
Shelter, NFI's, hygiene Humanitarian assistance through Finnish Red Cross to Syria crisis (Syrian refugees in Turkey)