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International Law Capacity Building Program Finland has supported the Laos PDR Ministry for Foreign Affairs led International Law Programme since 2001 with UNDP and the European Commission. Now Phase III of the Programme is beginnin gwith an objective to increase national capacity related to differe
nt aspects of the international law. The proposed project is in line with the Finnish development policy goals. It is important to also develop good governance and judicial system together with the economic development. The proposed project has a duration 
of 4 years. The total budget for 2009-2012 is 1,8 million euros.
Humanitarian Aid to Sudan through WHO Humanitarian aid to Sudan in health sector.
Improving child health in Ibadan primary schools While most infectious diseases are preventable, they still account for over two thirds of childhood mortality in developing countries such as Nigeria. In Nigeria, the Government (with UNICEF support) has launched a National School Health Policy with a resp
ective action plan for the country, but implementation of the policy has been slow, resulting in most of the schools still lacking basic health services. Within this context the objective of the project is to support the Oyo State in implementing the schoo
l health services with a long-term aim to improve the health status of children in primary schools in Ibadan.
Rural Electrification Project in Ashanti and Eastern regions Rural Electrification Project in Ashanti and Eastern Regions, Ghana. The proposed Rural Electrification Project was initiated by the Ministry of Energy of Ghana and ELTEL. The objective of the project is to contribute to the rural electrification in three 
districts of Ashanti Region and one district in the Eastern Region. In order to promote the socio-economic development of rural areas, the Government of Ghana supports rural electrification. The cost estimate includes all costs for planning, design, survey
, bush clearance, material, freight, erection, tests and commissioning of the project.
Joint Funding Basket for PRORURAL Programme in Nicaraqua Strengthening livelihoods in rural areas as well as creating new livelihoods.
Project for training children on landmines The project aims to fight against organized or personal violence discrimination and human rights violence in Eastern Turkey. The aim of the project is to raise the awareness about the pain and suffering caused by landmines. The association will organize a 
training program in Cizre area on damages of landmines and unexploded ordnances. The training program will reach 22.000 children teachers and family members in 45 schools.
CPC Anti-Migration program for social-vulnerable children in Moldova Republic of Moldova is a country of migrants. According to the International Organization of Migration estimates about one million Moldovans are working abroad. Migration has high social costs and presents considerable risks. The vulnerable group of people
 suffering from migration are children from social-vulnerable families. There is to be mentioned the increase in the number of children without one or both parents. In 2011 over 50% of the children from rural schools and small towns were in the situation w
hen one or both parents work abroad.The central goal of the project is contribution to prevent of youth migration in Moldova within implementation of job courses and anti-migration educational program in the poorest region of Chisinau City ? Ciocana. The m
ain objectives of the projects are to launch anti-migration/anti-trafficking program for children (training and legal/ psychological counseling) for children as well as to provide vocational courses for children to give them opportunities on employment. In
 order to achieve some long-lasting results it is also important to organize training for teachers. Within the project implementation a Teachers? Guide will be published to provide teachers with educational methodology in order to continue anti-migration p
rogram for children during the project implementation. During the project CPC develops partnerships further among NGOs Lyceum M.Berezovschi and local authorities.
INGO Aid to International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) ITCJ's primary aim is to promote accountability by helping countries develop effective responses to human rights abuse arising from repressive rule, mass atrocity, or armed conflict.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Indonesia The project is aimed to strengthen the role of women in mitigating and adapting global climate change through strengthening organisation and developing economy at Meru Betiri National Park, East Java.
Humanitarian Aid to Somalia through Finnish Church Aid Humanitarian relief aid to Somalia through Finnish Church Aid.
Promoting an Environment for Conflict Transformation in South of Thailand: Develop and Consolidate Platform of Insider Peacebuilders The overall objective of this project is to establish an inclusive platform of insider peacebuilders for the Deep South of Thailand who work effectively on the transformation of the conflict from inside of the country. The aims of the project are:1) To inc
lude in this group a critical mass of committed and experienced insider peacebuilders and to support their collaboration to form a joint platform for conflict analysis and transformation2) To work together towards the development of a comprehensive Roadmap
 for Peace and Justice 3) To initiate and cultivate an interactive user-friendly and well designed state of the art website functioning as a public forum 4) To provide a series of peace dialogue and peace mediation facilitation trainings
Future Co-op. Identitification Succesful preparation, monitoring and evaluation of Finnish development cooperation in the Palestinian Territory.
Project preparation in Mekong The funds are dedicated for the Finnish Embassy in Bangkok to perform identification, preparation, monitoring and steering, and evaluation of development cooperation interventions, as well as other tasks related to the implementation of Finnish development
 policy on the country-level.
Provincial Training and Consultation on Implementation on UNSCR 1325 One day training for relevant government officials provincial council members and other official figures and one day public consultations on implementation of UNSCR 1325 in Afghanistan (Herat Balkh and Kabul)
INGO Aid to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin International Institute for Sustainable Development writes and publishes the Earth Negotiations Bulletin. The ENB is a reporting service for environment and development negotiations. It is the main source of information for many parties, especially develop
ing country parties. ENB provides realtime information to decision makers and promotes transparency in multilateral policy making. The production of ENB is supported by contributions from governments, UN agencies and private organisations.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Kenya The project is motivated by the need to reduce poverty and food insecurity and the related inability of the affected peasant farmers to acquire sustainable livelihoods. Low agriculture production is one of the most visible manifestations of rural poverty i
n Kenya. This project will create community based innovation and advisory centres designed to support small scale farmers exploit research data in agricultural production.
Humanitarian assistance, Finn Church Aid Finn Church Aid's humanitarian assistance to Mauritania
Ukraine, PYM/FLC, Letavitsa - Green Future of Industrial Cities in Donetsk Oblast 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.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Sudan Women make up the majority of people in rural areas of Sudan due to rural-urban migration of males. The project addresses some of the constraints limiting the contribution of women to household food security and improving livelihood standard in the project
 area by awareness raising and capacity building of women in the target area, giving education in organizing and training of women on collective management of resources, as well as providing communities with better technology and agricultural input.
NGO Support / Vocational Teachers' Further Education Project (VTFE project) There is a lack of vocational training in the country. This project will add the number qualified teachers who in return are able to teach others.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finnish Red Cross) HIV/aids and Community Based Health. To improve the lives and the general health and sanitation conditions of vulnerable communities through the promotion of the community based health care and water and sanitation activities. HIV/aids prevention and peer 
education.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in South Africa Empowering Women in three communities  to influence policies and dialog with policy makers on issues that affects them for example  gender based violence  and HIV and Aids.
SL DAR / bilateral development cooperation programme planning between Tanzania and Finland Succesful planning monitoring and evaluation of the bilateral development cooperation programme between Tansania and Finland.
Support for UN System Partnership on Conflict Prevention Support to the UN Interdepartmental Framework Preventive Action and the UNDP-DPA Programme on Building National capacities for Conflict Prevention. The programme supports the UN Country Teams and Resident Coordinators in building capacity to develop integr
ated conflict prevention strategies in specific countries.
UNIDIR Supporting UNIDIR's activities related to development countries UNIDIR (UN Institute for Disarmament Research) is a voluntarily funded autonomous institute within the United Nations. The Institute generates ideas and promotes action on disarmament and security. The development of the small arms standards (ISACS) starte
d in 2008. ISACS is a tool by which international small arms instruments (UNPoA International Tracing Instrument Firearms Protocol)  would be easier and more effective to implement.  After development of standards UNIDIR and the Monterey Institute of Inter
national Studies (MIIS) propose to develop a set of indicators in implementing global commitments to SALW controls. The newly developed International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS) will be the basis for these indicators. In the Phase I MIIS and UNIDI
R developed indicators based on 7?10 draft ISACS Modules and developed a beta version of the software tool. A beta version of a software?based tool allows the user by responding to a series of queries to generate statistics on implementation efforts priori
tize critical areas measure implementation trends over time and identify areas for improvement. In Phase II up to five countries will test the indicators and software and give feedback to the research team. Small arms problems is especially challenging in 
Africa and Latin America. Small arms are Africa?s weapons of mass destruction. In Africa and Latin America in all areas of small arms control like stockpile management marking and tracing exist problems. Deficiency exists also in the coordination of nation
al relevant authorities. With the developed tool is possible to improve all areas of problems which are covered in the small arms instrument by identifying these areas. An example is stockpile management and information sharing among authorities. Also reco
rd keeping of arms critical understanding of volume of arms and ownership is to be improved. Finland?s Development Policy Programme states that there is no development without security. The Programme outlines that Finland promotes human rights democracy an
d responsible society by participating national and international projects to prevent the spread of illegal small arms as well as the unregulated arms trade.
Women's Empowerment in Political Affairs Seminar and workshops in Libya Women's empowerment political affairs will be the topic for a seminar and workshops organized in Tripoli Libya on 15th and 16th May 2012. The aim is to reach out to women wanting to participate in the politics and give them peer support and talk about the 
means and method on how to be influencial in the political arena. Long lasting political repression has left a vacuum in the political know how in the country. Women interested in the political affairs do not have much peer support in the country and now a
t the conference Tunisian and Finnish women will talk about their experiences. The purpose of the seminar and and the workshops is to strengthen the womens' capacity to develop a succesful electoral campaign.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finn Church Aid) Somali Women's Particiption in Peace Building Puntland. The overall objective is to significantly reduce the levels of active conflict in Puntland, together with facilitating accelerated efforts towards reconstruction.
NGO Support / Youth Vocational Workshops The project improves the situation of youth under threat of marginalization through pre-vocational training in workshops and creating thus opportunities for self-employment, in the city of Las Anod and in the area of Sool, Sanaag and Hawd.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finnish Red Cross) Health programme. To support the Somali Red Crescent Society to implement its health programming to improve the health status of vulnerable people in Somalia with special attention to the health of mothers and children and to strengthen the insitutional ca
pacity of the society.
NGO Support / Msingi Work + Skill Project Families that look after orphans will be supported. Orphans will be helped to continue their studies. Young persons will be trained to practical skills to earn their living. Hiv-education will be organized in schools oround Msingi.
Capacity building of the budget support in Mozambique Finland joined the donors giving budget support in Mozambique in June 2003. Since the budget support uses national systems it is vulnerable to the weaknesses of these systems. Therefore it is necessary to support programmes which aim to strenghten the fina
ncial administration of the public sector in the countries receiving budget support such as Mozambique.
INT/Further Education Course on Sustainable Communities The Ministry has been funding the Sustainable Communities course that has been organized by the Aalto University in collaboration with UN-HABITAT. Due to the change of the legal status of Finnish universities the organizer was re-selected in 2011 by using 
an open tendering process. A new contract between the Ministry and the Aalto University was made in 2012 covering the 2012 course but including also an option for another course to be organized in 2013 (1+1 principle). The aim of the course is to give prac
tical examples and methods how to use urban planning as a tool for sustainable development focusing especially on the linkages between urban planning and climate change. It aims to bridge the knowledge between academia local and central government in the f
ield of sustainable urban planning.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finnish Red Cross) To promote the organizational development of the Red Cross Societies in the Southern Africa Region.
Supporting the work of a gender adviser at the regional Office Supporting the work of a gender adviser at the regional Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR located in Beirut (2009-2011).
Humanitarian Aid to Kenya through IFRC Humanitarian Aid Flood relief to Kenya through Finnish Red Cross. In 2010: drought relief.
Voice of Roma Ashkali and Egyptians NGO (VoRAE) The Non-Governmental Organization ?Voice of Roma Ashkali and Egyptians? was established with a general mandate to improve the lives of Kosovo Roma Ashkali and Egyptian (RAE) communities and further support their integration into Kosovo society by advocatin
g for their rights living conditions and general situation before the competent domestic and international authorities and/or organizations. Roma inclusion is a crucial issue of the VoRAE program. The objectives of this project are: a) Improve the general 
level of education among RAE communities by investing into their secondary and university education and by offering activities that support school enrolment  b)Break social barriers for easier integration of Roma community in post-war Kosovo society by lea
rning Albanian language and c) To build and strengthen the capacity of VoRAE in Kosovo to fully execute its mission and vision and foster integration of RAE communities in Kosovo society.
Serve Community Based Rehabilitation with People with Disablilities The Community Based Rehabilitation with People with Disabilities (PwDs) aims to empower communities and families of individuals with disabilities for inclusion od PwDs in all aspects of life through 1)CBR including Home Based Training, vocational training 
and loan programs 2) Advocacy and disability awarness 3) Advocacy and capacity building of government
Southern African Network for Biosciences, NEPAD-BIOFISA The purpose of BIOFISA is to develop the southern African capacities in the area of biosciences and to bring new innovative bioscience related products in the market in order to eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development. The objective of the
 Partnership Programme is to strengthen the operational capacity of the NEPAD/African Biosciences Initiative in southern Africa. It will support SANBIO in rolling-out the SANBio business plan in the twelve member states supporting SANBIO.
Non-instrument navigation program Implementation of the Palau Community College Non -instrument Navigation program through the Micronesian Voyaging Society (NGO)
Worldbank,secondment program Worldbank's secondment program, promoting Finnish experts' working possibilities in the World Bank.
INGO Aid to the Minority Rights Group (MRG) To promote and secure the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, and to promote co-operation and understanding between communities.
NGO Support / Sinsibere-3Combating desertific. w. women's sustainable livelih. Aim: To improve environmental sustainability and livelihood in the communities through combating deforestation and desertification. The project aims to create viable income generating activities for women to replace income from firewood selling. Activities
: Training women's cooparative members (financial matters, shea butter production, gardening, marketing, agroforestry technique, administration, literacy), establishment of a training center, networking, advocacy at national level (seminars, tv, press).
Humanitarian food assistance/WFP Humanitarian food assistance to Niger through WFP.
Mujeres Aliadas / Training of midwives, 2-year education of midwives in the state of Michoacan. Mujeres Aliadas gives professional training to nureses to become midwives. The training is fopr 2 years. After graduation the midwives will work at clinics in the area of Michoacan. At the clinics the midwives will serve indigenous women.
Geo-sector Information Management System Development and Capacity Buil Geo-information management system development and capacity building of the agencies responsible of geo-sector in Central Asian countries.
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) Rural Development Project of IELA. Promoting the capacity of IELA's agricultural activities/Scholarship programme
NGO Support / Towards Equality, Democracy and Economic Growth by IT-Education To improve the change of information and employment by training and using information technology.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in South Africa The overall long term goal is to reduce levels of violence and abuse of women by strengthening the South African justice system and improving implementation of existing law and policy. A justice system that recognises the needs of rape survivors and surviv
ors of domestic violence, supports them in all their interactions with the system itself, acknowledges the pivotal nature of their testimony to the success of their trials thus improving the effectiveness of the trial process, increasing the conviction rat
e and acting as a deterrent to rapists and victims of domestic violence.
Fostering Rights + Empowering Egyptians (FREE) Torture has always been an interrogation tool in the mentality of police officers and this concept is widespread among government officials in general as it is believed to drag admissions out of suspects without a real interest for their validity. Even in 
the public opinion it is accepted that suspects get tortured as it would be the only way to deal with criminals and drug addicts.Consequently the legal + social situation in Egypt seriously needs a strategic plan to integrate human rights principles and un
derstanding into the legal + social context. The FREE project aims at constructing a common perception towards civil rights as a corresponding notion to human dignity and freedom so as to end human rights violations and promote the rule of law. The project
 activities will be divided into three main components:- Establishing four legal aid centers and training lawyers to provide legal support to victims of torture and facilitate their access to legal + media resources.- Working with NGOs + the civil society 
to raise social awareness on torture as a crime and promoting the right to physical integrity. - Implementing strategies to improve the skills of judges + prosecutors and expand their ability in handling relevant legal cases fairly + efficiently.
Promotion of Youth Employment and Life Skills The project seeks to contribute to the employabilty of youth in Peru. The direct objective of the project is to support the employment of 300 youth, from 15 to 20 years old, through enhancing their skills through employment and entrepreneurship trainings a
s well as life skills training. The project aims to support young people's participation in the development of their communities in the suburbs of Rimac and La Victoria in Lima. The project activities will be implemented in 6 schools and three shelter home
s. In addition, 50 teachers will be trained in the methodology of youth employment, life skills and active participation of youth.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finnish Red Cross) Integrated Food Security and HIV/Aids. Improved food security for HIV/Aids infected rural population in Swaziland.