devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Increasing food security and improving soil and water resources The overall objective of the project is to promote environmentally sustainable human development in Angola. The project contributes to eradicating extreme poverty in rural areas of Kunene province. The purpose is to increase the food security and income of
 1530 farmers and their families through training in environment friendly production methods literacy training and strengthened organization thereby consolidating and up-scaling the activities and results of the first 3 years of the Farmers? Club project.T
he project will improve the human rights status of the participants by increasing their food security and standard of living. It will provide access to education enabling the participants to become literate. The project will promote gender equality and inc
lusion of the disabled in all project activities and will seek to enable participants to exercise their civil rights in the local society. Introduction of conservation farming methods and crop diversification will work towards climate proofing the farmers.
The project will both develop the existing 20 Farmers? Clubs and create 10 new ones with 500 farmers as members. Main beneficiaries are 1530 farmers and their families approximately 10000 people.The 20 existing clubs with 1030 members will be supported in 
becoming legally registered as associations and hereby getting access to government guaranteed micro credit schemes. The project will support the farmers in developing their production and common sale systems further and in successfully exploiting the micr
o credit opportunities for making productive investments.500 farmers of whom at least half are female will be organized in 10 new Farmers? Clubs. Each club of approximately 50 farmers will elect a Farmers? Club Committee of 5 members who will be trained in
 project activities and leadership skills including practising inclusion and transparency. The Committees will be responsible for guiding the rest of the club members and will gradually take over the ownership of the club activities. Club activities includ
e monthly training sessions on sustainable agricultural methods basic business skills basic health hygiene and sanitation, monthly club meetings, literacy and numeracy training, health campaigns and more. Each group of 10 farmers will establish a model fie
ld where new methods are demonstrated trained and proved. The clubs are encouraged to organize common transport and/or systems for sale of the produce.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in South Africa Through this project Elgin Learning Foundation aims to create accessible educational opportunities for marginalised youth by piloting a new way of combining leading-edge technology solutions by Finnish partners with locally developed educational content an
d life skills coaching.  Beneficiaries are young people who are currently poorly served or not reached by the various educational offerings in Grabouw and Westbury.
UNWomen - Women's Political Empowerment in North Africa and Middle East This regional programme managed by UNWomen's Arab States Division provides a mechanism through which UNWomen assists women in the Arab region to reposition themselves in the political and decision making space and contribute to shaping the future of their 
countries in the ongoing democratic transition while protecting their previous gains. The  prime areas of focus are a) advancing women?s rights and gender responsive agenda in constitutional legal and institutional frameworks, b) promoting women?s particip
ation in electoral processes both as candidates and as voters and c) influencing political parties service delivery organizations media and local government to promote gender equality in leadership and participation. The regional programme is made up of tw
o components: a funding mechanism for country tailored initiatives along a set of service lines primarily aimed at strengthening women's political participation and advancing gender equality in the transition period, and a technical knowledge hub on Arab w
omen's citizenship and political participation.
Quick Impact Projects in Lebanon Quick Impact Projects in Lebanon support local governance and the development of local communities and villages in Southern Lebanon which is still suffering from the damage caused by the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. The projects will be impl
emented by Finland's UNIFIL troops. The projects not only support local development but also build trust between UNIFIL troops and the local communities. The identification and implementation of the projects is executed by Finland's UNIFIL troops following
 a Quick Implementation Project guidance provided by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Indonesia Energy and Environment Partnership Energy and Environment Partnership Program (EEP) aims to increase access to sustainable renewable energy and reduce the growth rate of greenhoue gases in Indonesia. The program promotes wider use of renewable energy and cleaner technology as well as energy
 efficiency in the rural communities especially among poor and women. The program is especially targeting biomass for energy and is centred in two provinces Riau and Central Kalimantan. The EEP provides co-financing for projects on biomass for energy imple
mented by community based organisations NGO's and public and private sector. The program also provides support for capasity building in the target areas.
Administrative cost of MFA missions abroad for CHINA Administrative cost of MFA missions abroad for CHINA. Costs generated from the Embassy of Finland
Shelter, hygiene Humanitarian assistance through Finnish Red Cross to Philippines
Youth livelihood and participation The aim of the project is to reduce urban poverty of vulnerable youth in Chamanculo through access to training and employment to improve equal ooportunities to primary education to promote youth participation in civil society and democratic processes and t
o contribute to reduction of youth delinquency and number of new HIV infections.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Panama Strengthen the rights and solidarity of the Ngabe women in Risco Panama as a mechanism for the execution of rights and garantee the food security and water conservation.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Kazakhstan The project will continue the work at the shelter for women and children who are victims of abuse and whose safety is threatened in the city of Petropavlosk serving the northern parts of Kazakhstan. The shelter was established with a previous grant from Fi
nland. Within the project clients of the shelter will be provided necessary social psychological and judicial services as required. The clients will also benefit from reintegration procedures including educational training and job placement.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Tunisia The Tunisia SOS Villages d' Enfants (SOS Children's Villages ) organization has been working for a long time in Tunisia and has gained a lot of respect for its work.The SOS organization proposed on the 10.21.2013 to the Finnish Embassy in Tunis  an interes
ting project  related to important themes  such as gender equality. The project will be implemented in Akouda which is located near Sousse's tourist resorts. Tourism employs thousands of people in Sousse  which have attracted residents of center Tunisia to
 relocate to Sousse hoping for better job opportunities. Sousse in Tunisia is also known for the infamous neighborhoods with high unemployment rates and poverty. The one-year project is intended to help Akouda's women and their children. In the first part 
of the project women and their children will attend workshops on women's rights and international CEDAW agreement which Tunisia has ratified. CEDAW aims to promote human rights and the realization of gender equality. These training sessions have been tailo
red to the target audience 's age and level of education . Training courses are made more attractive to the public by organizing drawing competitions.Workshops will also be organized to show to mothers the importance of education for their girls. The objec
tive of this part of the project is to help 115 women to register themselves or to register their children in different educational institutions. In the second part of the project the organization will prepare with the women living in Akouda an overview of
 the existing employment possibilities for women in the area. The SOS will try to identify women's existing business opportunities and try to assess the need for additional training for these women to develop their activity. Within this same project a tota
l of five women will be provided assistance and expertise in starting their new profit- generating activity by providing them with micro-loans (860 euros per women) for small scale projects.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Serbia The Project includes the following project activities: establishing of Student's Cooperative in cooperation with stakeholders course for teachers and secondary school pupils focused on establishment and operation of Students' cooperatives course for journa
lists for secondary school pupils engaged in publishing one monthly joint magazine in Albanian and Serbian language and multiethnic Youth Camp in Novi Sad.The purpose of the project is to create facilities for social interaction among young people of diffe
rent nationalities bridge interethnic distances between young Albanians Serbs Roma and members of other ethnic groups in Bujanovac.
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) Community based education, exchanging of experiences and working methods, finding and mapping out of new markets.
Widow's Mite Elderly Village to Malawi Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Especially the elderly live in utmost poverty of whom most are women. Because of the HIV/AIDS- pandemic caretakers of most of the families have died and grandparents have been forced to take care of the 
orphans. This is difficult because of the lack of financial recourses and of local prevalent beliefs in villages that old people who live long must be practicing witchcraft. This is also one of the reasons that the elderly are discriminated against and mis
treated in their village communities and their everyday life as parents of the AIDS-orphans is a struggle for survival.The overall objective of the project is to secure the elderly a life with human dignity to prevent discrimination and to increase the equ
ality of the elderly in the society. Our goal is to support the State of Malawi to launch their own Policy for Elderly and to help them achieve UN?s millennium goal to halve poverty by 2015. The reduction of the poverty of the elderly also directly impacts
 the situation of the AIDS-orphans.The project will follow the cross cutting objectives of Finnish Government's development policy by advancing the human rights of the elderly and reducing their discrimation and by strenghtening escpecially the situation o
f the old women. The project battles against HIV/AIDS in the district of Mchere both by offering the health care services and intervening  the economical problems which the HIV/AIDS has caused them by empowering the elderly financially. The project aims to
 create a new concept for the care of the elderly in Malawi with the implementation of an elderly village.The main functions will be: clinic:  providing health care services for the elderly and AIDS orphans, hostel: housing units for the most severely negl
ected elderly people rehabilitation program: holistic rehabilitation for elderly, economical empowerment program: vegetable garden and domestic animals' training and sensitization program: training the stakeholders of the project (attitudes knowledge). The
 project is implemented by Out of Africa's local partner in Malawi Kalibu Ministries.The main beneficiaries are about 1000 old people from the 114 villages of the district of Mchere who need help as well as the AIDS orphans under their care.
Aid for Trade for Central Asia UNDP is implementing the flagship project on the theme Aid For Trade in the framework of Wider Europe Initiative. The first Phase of the programme (2009-2010) consisted of three components: 1) Aid for Trade Road Map in Central Asia: Identification of natio
nal and regional AfT priorities 2) Support to Economic Development along Trade Corridors 3) AfT Needs Assessments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The Phase I provided a background for broader AfT support during Phase II. Phase II is based on the result
s of the Phase I and is being implemented during 2011 - 2013. Phase III (2014-17) is being implemented in Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan deepening the already built structures and widening the geographical areas of the project in these countries. Fin
land has financed the phases I and II with 62 million euro. The budget of the phase III is 9 million euro.
Development project of pre school teaching Th eobjective of the project is to develop the pre school teacher's ecudation and to improve education for all in Swaziland.
Justice sector cooperation Strengthening China's development in the field of rule of law with Chinese judicial sector counterparts in the provinces of Jiangsu and Heilongjiang. The project aims to strenthen China's development in the field of rule of law. The cooperation supports Ch
ina's capacity to improve its human rights situation. The project also  aims to improve the structure and working methods of China's judicial system.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Kosovo NGO Health (NGO Zdravlje) is founded in 1995 and registered in 2002. Vision of NGO Health is better and healthier level of living condition awareness on different health issues helping seniors involving youth in as many social spheres of society as possibl
e encouraging women in politics and increasing awareness on their rights. The overall objective of the project is minimizing the lead pollution consequences in northern Kosovo by identifying the level and forms of pollution raising the awareness and the kn
owledge of both the citizens and the local institutions on the issue in order to develop sustainable policy on lead pollution prevention and treatment.Specific objectives: Provide comprehensive report on lead contamination areas levels and forms based on t
he expert study conducted in northern Kosovo, Raising the awareness of the both population on one side and institutions and civil society organizations on the other about lead pollution problem through education and promotional campaigns, Development of su
stainable Action plan on lead pollution issue that would be a product of cooperation among stake-holders on this matter such as: MNAO health houses and organization civil society organizations media and civil activists.
U-landshjalp fran Folk till Folk i Finland promotion of development awareness Promotion of development awareness
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Zambia The project aims to promote the conservation and efficient utilization of energy for production in the manufacturing sector. Specifically the project will have the following objectives,I. Facilitate energy conservation and efficiency in the Zambian manufac
turing sector thereby contributing to cost savings and environmental sustainability,II. Assess the energy utilization and management practices of the players in the sector and determine the level of energy efficiency wastage and implications. III. Assess t
he current energy technologies being used by manufacturing entities and recommend better and more efficient and environmentally friendly technologies,IV. Promote efficient use of energy and minimise energy wastage in the manufacturing sector,V. Provide act
ionable recommendation on how to replicate the interventions to the other subsectors.
Empowernment of WWD in Tajikistan (Ishtirok) Empowernment of WWD in Tajikistan (Ishtirok)
Regional partnership to promote trade and investment in sub-Sahara The project is a regional partnership between the Government of Finland and the MDG Centres and ICFRA the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Vale Columbia Centre on Sustainable International Investment 
(VCC) to strengthen sub-national investment capacity in sub-Saharan Africa particularly in Mekelle of Ethiopia Kumasi in Ghana and Tabora in Tanzania. The project will (1) assist secondary cities/regions in generating more investment (both local and foreig
n) to build up their productive capacity and their ability to trade, this in turn will contribute to reaching the MDGs, and (2) contribute to global dialog on the importance of increasing sustainable investment and action at the subnational (cities/region)
 level.
Technical support to strengthen local peace structures in Myanmar The project activities focus on providing technical support for the dialogue partners in this critical phase of transition from ceasefire talks to political dialogue. The emphasis of the work is on confidence building process support and strategic planning
 which is crucial at the current phase of the peace process in order to clarify the framework for the political dialogue and steps needed for its implementation. The project will be implemented in cooperation with the Common Space Initiative and Finnish Ev
angelical Lutheran Mission (FELM). FELM will be in charge of the project management and reporting participate in the planning of the activities and knowledge support.
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Argentina The project concerns the organization's campaign against HIV/AIDS and promoting women?s sexual and reproductive rights among the indigenous people in the provinces of Jujuy and Salta in northern Argentina. The project takes into account gender and equality
 and focuses on promoting these especially among women of childbearing age and their partners. It aims to improve the situation of low-income indigenous women by promoting gender equality the right to self-determination and sexual health. The activities wi
ll be carried out in cooperation with the local government NGO's and women communities taking into account the local culture. Salta and Jujuy are among the Argentina's poorest provinces. Around 20 % of their population belongs to some indigenous group (in 
the location where the project is carried out a substantially greater proportion of the population represent the indigenous people). Most of the indigenous population in the two provinces lives in poverty or extreme poverty and 80 % has not finished compre
hensive school one third has not completed elementary or reached teaching at all. Illiteracy is three times more common than among the Argentine population. The organization takes into account the local culture in its activities and the importance of commi
tting various stakeholders for the project to be successful. It aims for long-term effectiveness by training staff in local health centers as well as community centers separately elected indigenous representatives for sexual health promotion in their commu
nities and the men who have an important role in women?s sexual and reproductive health.
Peace and Development in Finland's Development Cooperation The purpose of the evaluation is to provide information on how Finnish development cooperation has supported poverty reduction and strengthened peace and development in fragile states. The evaluation takes as its starting point the guidelines ?Development 
and Security in Finland?s Development Policy? published in 2009 and examines how the priorities of the guidelines have been implemented at the country level and if Finnish development cooperation has provided an effective contribution to support peace and 
development in partner countries. The evaluation will focus on the ways cross-cutting objectives have been taken into account in Finnish cooperation and record lessons learned and best practises. Finally the evaluation will also examine the implementation 
of aid effectiveness commitments and their relation to achieved results.
Promotion of development awareness Photo exhibition on sustainable tourism in developing countries
Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Kosovo Sports Sans Frontieres Kosovo is registered since 2002 in Kosovo. SSF actions in Kosovo are directed to Kosovo's youth and aim to reduce discrimination by providing spaces and opportunities that bring together ethnic communities through sport physical acti
vities and games. Perceived as a neutral organisation Sport Sans Frontieres is acting as a facilitator of dialogue. The main aim of the project is to contribute to the social inclusion of the youth in the kosovar society especially of the children and teen
agers from minorities. The project has three specific objectives (a)Create bridges among communities(b)Empower youth (c)Provide children with informal education Target group: the Volunteers from 15 to 21 years in charge of the sport and educational activit
ies. Volunteers will originate from six communities (Albanian Ashkali Bosniak Rom Serbian and Turkish) and at least 30% of them will be girls. Around 60 Volunteers will take part in the project. Final beneficiaries are the children from 6 to 12 who will be
nefit from the activities organised by the volunteers. Children will originate from six different communities (Albanian Ashkali Bosniak Rom Serbian and Turkish) and at least 30% of them will be girls.
Support to Fishery and Aquaculture management in Kyrgyz Republic through FAO The project is impelemted by FAO and the Department for Fisheries of the Ministry for Agriculture Water Resources and Processing Industry. The project is aiming at increasing the capacity of fisheries sector to generate food employment and income for rural
 population through introduction of improved aquaculture management capture fisheries and modern fish processing and marketing in Kyrgyz Republic.In Phase II (2014-2017) the Project aim is to revive inland fishery and aquaculture in the Kyrgyz Republic and
 contribute towards sustainable management of ecosystem services of Issyk-Kul lake to increase national fish production and strengthen Right to Food by enhancing food and nutritional security livelihoods of communities particularly rural poor and water pro
ductivity of irrigation water. In order to achieve the aim the Project will strengthen fisheries associations and train personnel to establish decentralized fish seed supply networks to reach remote and potential areas implement functioning fish feed suppl
y mechanism train personnel design and implement research to provide science based advice to sustain ecosystem services of lakes and reservoirs establish network of extension services system organized with government fisheries associations and farmer/fishe
rs participation with its services reaching the rural areas.The support for the second phase is 1.480.000 Euros.
Supporting State-Tribe Dialogue in Yemen Building on CMI's engagement in Yemen since 2011 in supporting confidence building and dialogue and in light of the current ongoing official national dialogue process in the country CMI aims to support the post National Dialogue Conference phase as per the
 below objectives:Overall Objective: Inclusive and Effective Political Transition in Yemen Supported Specific objectives: 1- Support women?s political engagement in the post-National Dialogue political process.2- Support implementation mechanisms for recom
mendations of the National Dialogue Conference.