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Youth in Action for Change Youth are in a central role in developing their communities and societies as well as in poverty reduction. In Paraguay youth face multiple challenges for their social and economic participation. Main challenges relate to lack of quality education occupatio
nal training and decent work possibilities and to lack of participation structures. Considering this the overall objective of the Project is to promote and enhance youth?s social and economic participation. The specific objective is to empower 700 disadvan
taged youth 15 to 29 years of age in Departments of Central Misiones Cordillera Caaguazu and Caazapa in Paraguay through training in life skills employability skills entrepreneurship support and social participation support. The aim is to enhance the possi
bilities for youth?s joined actions. In order to enhance youth?s possibilities for participation and economic involvement teachers? capacities and public sector support structures are strengthened. The total number of direct beneficiaries is 880 including 
school youth out of school youth youth groups and associations secondary school teachers and public sector employees.FCYF?s local partner organization in Paraguay is CIRD Centro de Informacion y Recursos para el Desarrollo. The crosscutting themes of Finla
nd?s Development Policy are included in the Project through mainstreaming gender equality and environmental sustainability and through decreasing inequality by focusing on most vulnerable youth.
Collaborative Partner-Donor Evaluations At the November 2012 meeting of EvalNet France accepted to prepare a ?survey of partner countries involved in the Paris Declaration Evaluation (PDE) in order to identify opportunities to support joint partner-donor evaluations?. Collaborative partner-donor
 evaluation is understood as just one among many capacity-building instruments. Together with country-led evaluations it activates a series of learning-by-doing mechanisms. The project will add value to the previous international efforts at promoting joint
 evaluation in the sense that first it shifts the focus from cooperation between donors to partner-donor cooperation and second it concentrates on collaborative activities that are intended to strengthen country evaluation systems. The objectives of the st
udy are: (1) to understand the capacity building potential of collaborative evaluation work (2) to draw new lessons about capacity building strategies and (3) to pave the way to a multi-annual partner-donor collaboration on evaluation work. The project con
sists of a series of partner country studies each one including: (1) a review of the PDE process in terms of its contribution to building evaluation capacity, (2) the collection of positive stories of partner-donor evaluation work (in addition to PDE), and
 (3) an exploration of future opportunities for undertaking such work. The country studies will be prepared in an international workshop in Uganda in March 2014. The study will end in an international workshop aimed at synthesizing the country studies and 
proposing steps forward in Vietnam in September 2014. Altogether 18 partner countries and 15 donors or international institutions have confirmed participation in the initiative. Finland participates as a financing partner and influences the start-up of the
 study through membership in the management group of the initiative during the first half of 2014.
People Participation in Improvement of Forestry Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam/ ActionAid The project  People Participation in Improvement of Forestry Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam (PPFG ? Vietnam) aims to create an open and interactive space for people from grassroots communities to participate in national forestry management i
nformation system to improve forestry governance and contribute to poverty alleviation in Vietnam. It is designed to fit with objectives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland: (i) to achieve the goals of Finland's development policy, (ii) to achiev
e Finland's country- and organisation-specific objectives and (iii) to strengthen civil societies and democracies in developing countries paying due regard to the citizens' opinions and needs in the national and international decision-making.With overall o
bjective of an initiative to improve forestry governance in Vietnam the project will achieve the purpose of participation of the grassroots communities and people in national forestry management information system is promoted to improve forestry governance
 and contribute to poverty alleviation in Vietnam. Democratic governance women's rights ethnic minority climate change and poverty reduction are cross cutting themes in all designing planning implementing and monitoring project activities.The expected resu
lts of the project are: 1) Transparent forest governance is improved through community based forestry management basing on digitalized  forest management information system created in Finland funded bilateral FORMIS project (Development of Management Infor
mation System for the Forestry Sector in Vietnam), 2) Knowledge and skills of the poor ethnic minority groups in project areas in knowing and using the data from FORMIS are supported to improve accountability in forest governance, 3) Relevant changes in po
licy and practices to facilitate good forest governance are made basing on evidence of success generated from ground work. The project aims to reach 260000 women and men who get improved control over forest through better access to information and institut
ions. People will get trained and organized to use digital tools on highly affordable mobile phones.Project is implemented in 2014 - 2017 in four provinces in Vietnam. The proposed budget is EUR 1049652 for three years.
North-South-South Higher Education Exchange Programme/CIMO North-South-South - programme is a higher education exchange network programme between Finnish and developing countries' higher education institutions. The goal of the programme is to enhance human capacity to ensure that people in all participating countr
ies may better contribute to the cultural socio-economic and political development of their communities. The main focus is on reciprocal student and teacher exchange. The networks of higher education institutions apply for funding for the activities suppor
ted within the programme. The North-South-South Programme is in its fourth programme phase in 2013-2015. The programme started in 2004.
Improving Forest Governance for Climate Sustainability in two Poor Ethnic Minority Communes in Son La province Project goal is to contribute to sustainable management and use of forest resources through a better forest governance for climate sustainability in Chieng Khua and Chieng Son communes. The project has 3 specific objectives: 1) to promote better forest gov
ernance practices for climate sustainability, 2) to enhance capacity of local communities on forest governance, 3) to pilot climate-smart models in smallholder agro-forestry systems for income sustainability and mainstreaming forest governance.The expected
 results of the project are 1) Forest governance practices for climate sustainability are implemented in the projected area during the project life, 2) By the project end knowledge of local communities on forest governance for climate sustainability is imp
roved and their behavior is changed accordingly, 3) Climate-smart models in smallholder agro-forestry systems for income sustainability and mainstreaming forest governance are developed and sustained in Chieng Son and Chieng Khua communes Son La province.T
he project is implemented in 2 communes of Son La province for the period from July 2014 to August 2016
InformAction Limited - A vision for change: Mobilizing Communities in the Counties for Accountability The proposal is based upon the second phase project carried out by InformAction in partnership with the Embassy of Finland on Social Justice Vision: Mobilizing communities through Film. The project uses a field-based approach to enhance citizen?s participa
tion in human rights governance and democratization. Its main output is film and community discussions. Social justice films are used to mobilize and spark discussion- they are a practical tool to carry forward the ideology of change and accountability.The
 newly devolved government structures bring a whole new spectrum of opportunities and challenges. There has been insignificant public information on devolution making interventions around devolved structures crucial. The dismissive attitude of the central 
authorities towards devolution has resulted in inadequate resources to the counties and the appointment of parallel power structures that report to the presidency.  There are efforts by the centre to ?supervise? the counties claiming ?financial and results
-based management.? This tug-of-war between the center and the regions will have significant impact on freedom of expression association and assembly.At the same time issues affecting Kenya pre-election phase continue: terrorism isolation and insecurity in
 Northern Kenya, marginalization and political isolation of Luo Nyanza, rising political violence in Western Kenya, extra-judicial killings by the police and a rise of criminal gangs, and paralysis of security sector reforms. The recurring problem of ethni
c divisions and animosity are now aggressively fought out on social media mirroring the underlying anxiety and tensions. A sense of empathy understanding and common cause urgently needs to be inculcated across the country.By creating formal networks of hum
an rights defenders and community organizers IFA will work to organize communities in more structured and effective ways emphasizing the benefits of joint actions. Reaching across ethnic and political divisions to create a progressive national outlook from
 the bottom up is critical. Old models of civic education and ?top down? civil society engagement are not enough, CSOs will need to connect more and better with ordinary people at the grassroots in order to be more effective as well as generate a measure o
f protection when under siege.
One-UN Social Protection Floors Initiative The One-UN Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPF-I) promotes successfully the goal of UN Delivering as One: UN agencies promote together the human right to social protection and essential services for all (Universal Declaration of Human Rights Art. 22-27
). This proposal (350.000e)  is a 1-year extention (4/15-->) to an ILO-executed  through which Finland encourages and supports  the joint planning coordination and statistics development of the UN country offices and HQs (incl. WB) developing country gover
nments development partner agencies and civil society organisations in the framework of the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B) where Finland is a respected member.  Finland's previous support has enabled several countries in Asia an
d Africa to set up broadly participatory national dialogue processes and high-level technical studies for shaping national SPF strategies and coordinating the activities of national and international partners. The next phase will focus on the development t
esting and documentation of joint tools for country level Inter-Agency Social Protection Assessments (ISPA). As an outcome developing country governments will receive increasingly well coordinated and harmonised support to their efforts to develop social p
rotection floors and national social protection systems. As a development outcome inequalities will be reduced when vulnerable children women and men will be better able to manage the risks of impoverishment in all phases of their life cycle (e.g. childhoo
d maternity  ill health old age disability).
Frame Agreement with NGO (Foundation for Human Rights/KIOS) Activities are capacity building, advocacy and awareness-raising. Uganda has signed International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1987, but there are significant shortcomings in the Ugandan legislation, including the Constitution, with 
respect to ESC rights. ESC rights under valuation will inevitably lead to deficiencies in state funds resourcing and public awareness of their rights. ESC rights are unevenly realised across the country and in different population groups, particularly the 
most disadvantaged are suffering from the situation. They do not often have the economic opportunity to challenge their case and obtain rectification for their right violation. Civil society organizations are also unaware of the content of ESC rights, and 
do not require any active role in the implementation. The project aims to build the capacity of beneficiaries so that they are acting on behalf of ESC rights and call for their implementation. The project also aims at strengthening ESC rights-related legis
lation and improving the access to the ESC rights-related services. Project's direct beneficiaries are civil society actors, legal staff and representatives of the media, invited by the organization to participate in the training. In addition, the organiza
tion seeks to reach out the relevant authorities in terms of ESC rights, including the Parliament's Human Rights Committee, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Uganda Human Rights Commission. Some of the capacity building and information activities 
are directed to university communities and women's groups. Iser's Board members responsible for the ISER?s operations have a diverse educational background and experience, and thus the organization has diversified expertise in the various economic, social 
and cultural rights.
Health Education Project of Diabetic Children and Juveniles The aim of the project is to support diabetic children youngsters and families by organising camps. In the camps there will be offered information about diabetes it's treatment and the meaning of the diet and exercise. To the camps also healhty children wi
ll participate. This helps in the socialisation and acceptance of the diabetic children. Also the mums can participate.In one camp there will participate 60 children 30 mums and 30 non-diabetic children each year for two weeks. In addition Girl Meetings wi
ll be organised as well as the Youth Clubs. Volunteers will be educated to know more about the treatment of diabetes and to leaders to the camp. In this second phase of the project the guidance focused on mums will be added as well as the preparation of th
e suitable diet.
Dissemination and implementation of Anti-discrimination law in Chile The Law Establishing Measures against Discrimination was enacted by the Government of Chile in 2012.Now with the Anti-Discrimination Act passed the LGBT population has for the first time in its history an effective tool to deal with this type of abuse beca
use sexual minorities are specifically mentioned in the law being it then necessary to empower the social sector in this warranty.Between 2002 and 2011 allegations of homophobia are divided among others in 17 murders 66 assaults perpetrated by civilians 28
 police misconduct employment discrimination 53 and 37 Educational discriminations etc. The LGBT population mostly does not report cases of discrimination. Only 7.4 percent report these abuses among other reasons because they believe they will not achieve 
justice. The experience reinforces that idea since before the adoption of the Anti-discrimination law most courts that have seen cases have gone unpunished.Four pillars support the project:1) Free legal advice to LGBT people affected by discrimination and 
legalization of organizations, 2) Preparation of Annual Report on Human Rights on the realities of LGBT people in Chile,3) Information campaign and dissemination of LGBT human rights and promotion of the Anti-discrimination law. This campaign aims to devel
op training workshops for government officials and schools and universities forums conducting film festivals addressing sexual diversity, and4) Proposed enforcement or monitoring of anti-discrimination law in the state and private sectors with particular f
ocus on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.The project is co-financed with the European Union and the Embassy of the Netherlands
Frame agreement with NGO (SASK) The project recruits new members to the Mine Workers? Wives Associations (MWA) of Obuasi and Tarkwa, Ghana, and supports the women?s literacy and entrepreneurship skills through training, counseling and coaching. Additionally the associations improve famil
y welfare through health education campaigns and peer support groups focusing on family life education and self-confidence development. The status of the women who are rather dependent on their spouses is weak, which leads to poor possibilities to particip
ate in improving the quality of life of their families and the welfare of the whole community. By increasing the self-confidence and concrete life ownership of the women their more active role in the families and community development is supported. The ben
eficiaries are primarily the women empowered by the project and secondarily their families and the whole communities. The project is implemented by the Mine Workers? Wives Associations (MWA) of Obuasi and Tarkwa and managed and facilitated by the Ghana Min
e Workers? Union (GMWU).
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) The ICJ?s mission is to promote and protect human rights through the rule of law and the effective and fair administration of justice.To achieve its mission the ICJ developed a strategic plan focused on four pillars: (1) access to justice for all, (2) acco
untability for human rights violations, (3) independence of judges and lawyers, and (4) rule of law and international human rights instruments.This two and half year proposal is based on ICJ?s mission and strategic plan. The aim of this plan is to contribu
te to the promotion and protection of human rights and the rule of law, the ICJ seeks to achieve this aim through the following objectives:i) Enable victims of human rights violations and abuses including those of the most disadvantaged and marginalized gr
oups to access justice through effective remedies and reparation,ii) Help bring to justice the perpetrators of human rights violations in particular gross human rights violations and crimes under international law,iii) Strengthen and protect the independen
ce of judges and lawyers as actors that are able to give effect to objectives i) and ii), andiv) Help develop international human rights law and standards and support the effectiveness of the mechanisms thereunder in order to give effect to objectives i) a
nd ii).The ICJ developed a Results-Based Framework (RBF) which includes specific objectives outcomes outputs indicators and related baselines and targets. Objectives have been formulated for each of ICJ?s strategic directions. Outcomes have been defined fo
r each of the ICJ?s main target groups: the legal practitioners and other human rights defenders that use the law to defend human rights, the judiciary and other institutions that implement the legal framework, and the policy and law makers that define the
 legal framework.The ICJ reviews and adapts its plan through internal monitoring undertaken on a regular basis at the programmatic level by management (fortnightly meetings of the Management Team and meetings every six months with the ICJ Executive Committ
ee) and at the institutional level (through annual reports). Monitoring and review are increasingly based on the outcomes and impact of project activities on the ICJ?s strategic objectives.
Entrepreneurship Training School of Salinas The project will reinforce an institution Entrepreneurship Training School of Salinas in Salinas in Ecuador with the long term goal to develop growing and innovative businesses in the area.
Frame agreement with NGO (Operation a Day?s Work) This project aims on giving youth in Sierra Leone a stronger voice in developing their communities and society in general through facilitating the improvement of their life-skills and education and reduction of the barriers the youth face in accessing educ
ation. The current social and economic situation in Sierra Leone has been shaped by the civil war which ran from 1991-2002. During the war mistrust between the older and younger generations was created as youth were seen to be the reason for the conflict t
o start and endure. Even after the war young people have been seen as a ?flash-point? of social instability which has been growing again since the end of the war.One of the key challenges for youth in Sierra Leone is that their education is inadequate e.g.
 in terms of employablity. That leaves young people with little opportunities to contribute meaningfully in their lives and society. Resulting hopelessness and frustration create undesirable actions. This project recognizes the role of youth in the decade-
long civil conflict and offers opportunities for young people to transform their own status and other peoples' perception about them.                                                                                                                           
                         The overall objective for the project is to empower the Sierra Leonean outh to engage meaningfully in decision making processes that affect their lives. Special focus is given on the most vulnerable youth that are young women and y
outh with disabilities. Especially in the rural areas of the project districts (Moyamba, Port Loko, Bo and Western Area) their rights to education and participation are violated. The approaches of the project relate to facilitation of education and life-sk
ills for the youth as a basis for meaningful contribution in society. Also the project aims to capacitate the youth with skills and means to participate in decision-making processes that affect their lives and the development of their communities. While em
phasis is put on trainings and capacity building, through advocacy on education and also gender and disability related policies the project supports resolving the underlying barriers in the community, district and national levels that currently hinders you
th accessing education.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finn Church Aid) The project is based on a need repeatedly expressed by Shiite, Sunni, Druze and Christian women participating in previous WAD projects, WAD?s inter-religious activities, and through programme?s sponsored by one of WAD?s main partner the Lebanese Ministry o
f Social Affairs/Social Development Centers (SDC).ObjectivesPromoting and advancing the process of dialogue previously started, thus fostering rapprochement and reconciliation between women of different religious backgrounds in three Lebanese regions.Activ
ities- Organising three-day Training Workshops- Establishing contacts with local religious leaders- Organising follow-up and evaluation day- Creation of an interactive websiteRights-holders /beneficiaries: - 60 women leaders will be trained on TOT (trainer
 of trainers) to become trainers in their organisations, communities and regions.- 20 local NGOs will learn from the experience and will be able to duplicate the experience.- 3 SDCs (one in each targeted region) will participate closely in the action as pa
rtner but will also benefit from the experience and outcome.Implementing partner:Women in Action for Development (WAD)