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Frame agreement with NGO (Siemenpuu) The project consists of a communication campaign on illegal forest product trade in Mexico. It aims to provoke public discussion on the theme and commit key actors to the process in order to abolish illegal trade and manage the forests sustainably. The pro
ject benefits directly the approximately 1000 community forestry enterprises functioning in Mexico.In order to abolish illegal trade and achieve good forest governance in Mexico, it is important to strengthen the legal trade of forest products. For that th
e commitment of the government, the producers, enterprises and the consumers is needed. Currently approximately 50 % of the wood used in Mexico is of illegal origin.Red MOCAF is a network founded by Mexican community forestry organisations in 1994. Its mem
bership is comprised of 45 peasant and indigenous organisations in different states of Mexico. Red MOCAF aims to develop the rural population?s livelihoods especially in forested areas in a sustainable manner. Its work includes advocacy in public policies,
 communication, capacity development, project management and representation of its membership before other actors. Recently Red MOCAF?s focus areas have been: representing the social sector in the national forest commission (CONAF), inclusion of social and
 environmental safeguards into the forest law, inclusion of community forestry areas into the national Payment for Environmental Services scheme in order to promote sustainable forestry and forest conservation, coordination of CONAF?s working group on the 
national REDD programme and positioning of the Mesoamerican community forestry experiences internationally. mocaf.org.mx
Frame agreement with NGO (FIDIDA) Support to ZAEPD and intellectually disabled girls and women in Zambia. Support to ZAEPD and intellectually disabled girls and women in Zambia
Learning the experience of Finland on quota for women in elected bodies lobbying quota for women and preparation of the women candidates The project goal is to protect the rights of women in different state bodies. There are only 20 women out of the 125 members in the Parliament of Azerbaijan. Women from political parties and NGOs will learn about the Finnish quota for women and they will s
hare their knowledge in Azerbaijan. The project will also prepare women candidates for the parliamentary elections and train them to carry out their election campaigns. There will be conducted seminars with subjects like: functions of the parliament rights
 and obligations of the members of the parliament negotiation skills and preparation of speeches.
Frame agreement with NGO (FIDIDA) Deaf Empowerment and Awareness in Cambodia. WHAT: The project locates and provides basic education and access to the Deaf community to young deaf people who haven't previously gotten chance to educate or to support themselves.WHY: 97 % of the deaf in Cambo
dia have never learned any language, gotten to school or met another deaf person. The deaf in Cambodia are usually dependent on their family and they live on the edge of family life and the society.HOW: By supporting deaf education, sign language and the D
eaf community together with raising deaf awareness in the society, the Deaf community is able to advocate for equal human rights for the Deaf and sign language users. The project benefits the deaf entering civil society for the first time and their relativ
es.PARTNER ORGANISATION: The project is implemented together with Maryknoll Cambodia which is an American organization under which the Deaf Development Programme has operated since 2002.
VALIME/Preparation and assessment The regional co-operation in North Africa and Middle East has an annual budjet of appr. 5 million euros and in the year 2015 the amount of mandate is 61 million euros. Finland's long time priorities have been environmental sector and support to the enhance
ment of human rights. These two sectors are still relevant with more emphasis now on human rights especially women's rights and democracy good governance and strong civil society. Preparation monitoring and assessment of the projects is on going process in
 the project management. During 2015 several projects will be assessed. Most of the the preparation and and assesment will be outsourced and some of it is done by ministry's own personnel both desk officers and advisors. For the year 2015 this is estimated
 to be 150 000 euros.
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) The project aims to contribute to the overall socio-economic empowerment of women and children in Mersa surroundings. In the project area, especially women suffer of extreme poverty, negative cultural practices and abuse because of their position and condi
tion in the society. Women?s economic dependence on men is one of the root causes for women to be marginalized, which leads also to violation of women?s rights. Also, women?s access to decision-making processes is very limited.  By the end of the third pha
se of the project, women have been trained to improve their livelihoods and they know about accountings and can get micro-loans to establish small enterprises. Negative cultural practices are changing, family planning enhanced and the number of hiv-infecti
ons reduced through awareness-raising and women's groups. Psychosocial support is offered to people living with aids and to orphaned vulnerable children. Access to basic education for girls is improved through changing of attitudes, school mentoring and pr
ovision of school materials to girls of poor families. The direct beneficiaries of the project are about 25.000 women and girls in Mersa surroundings and indirect beneficiaries about 22.000 persons. The implementing agency is the Ethiopian Evangelical Chur
ch Mekane Yesus / North Central Synod Development and Social Services Commission (EECMY-DASSC-NCS) in Dessie.
CPR/Heilongjiang Agricultural Project Developing Agricultural Production in HLJ in China
Frame agreement with NGO (Demo Finland) Demo supports and facilitates the work of the Joint Youth and Students Platform of political student and youth organisations in order to facilitate peacefull cooperation and constructive dialogue.
Technical Assistance for TEVT (Soft Skills) Development in School Sector Reform Plan in Nepal The Government of Finland has contributed to development in the education sector since 1999 and is currently one of the development partners supporting the Nepali Government with financing and implementation of the School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP). Finland
?s contribution to the SSRP is ? 16 million during 2010 to 2015. Out of this ? 11.5 million has been allocated to finance the integration of Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET)  into primary and secondary education. Additional to that there is a
n allocation of ? 1.6 million for development and piloting TEVT soft skills in school education.The overall objective is to contribute to enhancing quality and relevance of general education by introducing TEVT soft skills (vocationally oriented skills) in
 school system in order to improve employability of students and to meet the demands of labor market. The objective has been discussed with all major stakeholders and has been found to be relevant. No changes are required to the overall objective. The purp
ose of the Technical Assistance is to support the Ministry of Education in implementing the TEVT (Soft Skills) component of the SSRP that is operationalized in Annual Strategic Implementation Plans (ASIP) of each year.
Skills For Appropriate Sustainable Technologies (SkillsFAST) The main purpose of SkillsFAST project is to improve access to energy improve food security and help individuals of marginalized target groups (primarily youth, women, methadone users as well as those within the cooperatives network) to receive entrepreneu
rial capacities in order to become better citizens who have an opportunity to become employed as well as are able to independently create employment opportunities. This is enabled through exploiting opportunities within the energy and food sectors under th
e objective of multi-dimensional sustainability. SkillsFAST seeks to improve and transform the way valuable skills and knowledge from diverse sources are be made accessible and transferred to special vulnerable groups in society in order to improve their l
ives. SkillsFAST integrates knowledge from farmers who are organised as cooperatives, vocational training institutions (VTECs) in Tanzania Kenya and Uganda, universities of applied sciences (HAMK), SMEs (Lumivio Oy), established southern expert bodies (Twa
weza Communications), and northern CSOs such as Shalin. SkillsFAST delivers skills on sustainable technologies focused on energy and food to provide beneficiaries with long-lasting marketable skills and relevant knowledge to reduce the rate of unemployment
 and to promote enterprises that can solve local problems. The project specifically deals with the energy and food security issues locally and contributes to the identification of solutions for the international climate crisis. SkillsFAST is implemented du
ring 2015-2017 and is divided into five Work Packages (WPs).
Project planning Planning and monitoring of the development co-operation programme between Finland and Zambia.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finn Church Aid) The predominant problem in Walikale is the difficulty to find alternative means of living, lack of work both in the formal and non-formal sector, lack of access to savings and credit, lack of access to markets and understanding of how they work, and limite
d economic opportunities in the villages. Food insecurity and chronic malnutrition is still prevalent in some areas.There are a number of NGOs active in the targeted areas but none of them work in the livelihoods sector, where needs are considerable. Most 
NGOs work in the humanitarian relief, including food security and education in emergencies. 80% of the women do not currently exercise their income generating activities, despite many of them being the main bread winners and care takers of their families. 
The coping strategies are such as small kitchen gardens and small livestock.Objective of the project: The targeted community members have enhanced skills and capacity to practice income generating activities, contributing to increased incomes and reduced v
ulnerability.Activities: ? Cash for work activities for a cash injection for the vulnerable households and to contribute to the create sustainable assets at the community level including small infrastructure and construction? Trainings in income generating
 activities, basics of how to run a business? Create Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLA) to promote savings? Support small scale business creation and provide advice and counselling on commercial and agricultural activities? Structure the agricultu
ral producers in networks (cooperatives) and support local initiatives  for the transformation and commercialisation of the products? Other innovative approaches for small scale business and value chain development? Advocacy Rights-holders /beneficiaries: 
Vulnerable women (50%) and youth and other community members. The estimated number of direct beneficiaries will be finalised after the baseline study.The specific beneficiary selection criteria will be fine-tuned later but beneficiary identification criter
ia may include access to land and some existing assets, average household income and ration of children at school/children having finalised the primary school (six years). Extra care will be taken not to exclude but to ensure active participation by women 
and other vulnerable members in the targeted communities.Implementing partner:The proposed partner for the project is ALPM (Actions pour la Lutte contre la pauvrete et la Malnutrition). ALPM is a
Frame Agreement with NGO (Plan International Finland Foundation) The programme aims to strengthen community-based early childhood care and development services for marginalized children including girls and children with disability. The programme interweaves four key components that include strengthening parenting skills
 and knowledge to support child development, increasing access to quality early learning services for vulnerable children, facilitating effective transitions to primary school and advocacy at community, district and national level to meet the development n
eeds of young children. In Uganda early childhood stimulation and development are neither well understood nor widely practiced in rural areas of Uganda and only 5.7% of children 3-5 years attend pre-primary schools. The programme promotes a holistic approa
ch to childcare, development and protection that enables all children in the targeted communities to properly grow, develop and succeed in primary school. In turn, communities will have expanded capacity to promote effective care, development and protectio
n of their children. The programme targets 15 300 people including 10 800 0-5 year old boys and girls and 4 500 adults. The project is implemented by Plan Uganda together with the communities.
Frame agreement with NGO (Siemenpuu) The project intervention basically aims to strengthen and building the capacity of the Adivasi communities and to make them capable of addressing the issues encountered and control over the natural resources and ownership. This will be attained through the
 empower + awareness of Adivasi community and strengthening of adivasi organisations. The strengthening of the Adivasi community will address the important issues such as ? Land rights, forest rights with especial focus to community forest rights and PESA.
 Addressing the problems thereby providing a suitable platform to raise the issues at respective authority and legalise the control over the resources and ownership as well as check the exploiters, To enrich the adivasi traditions and culture of adivasis a
nd finally to build the capacity so that the adivasis can raise their voice to independently access their rights to livelihood and dignity.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finn Church Aid) Haiti suffers from severe food insecure and depends on importation for several basic products. Currently, 1 200 000 eggs are imported daily from Dominican Republic. There is a lack of investment in the agricultural sector and rural communities have weak pr
oduction skills. Haitian Ministry of Agriculture has started promoting egg production in the country, but the current production is not nearly sufficient for the demand of a total population of 1 million in the Southern departments of Haiti. The project st
rengthens egg production in the department of the South through capacity building, provision of layers and other inputs to local producers, and the establishment of a production unit managed by a cooperative. This will improve the livelihoods for the local
 people in vulnerable rural communities, particularly youth and women. The project will also contribute to the overall food security in the region, as an increase of locally produced eggs will help to decrease prices and improve accessibility to eggs.  Act
ivities: ? Eggs value chain and market analysis in 5 departments ? Establishment of a central unit that provides local producers access to layers and chicken feed ? Training of 800 youth and 450 women to produce 20 eggs a daily (training on sustainable pou
ltry and egg production, basic business skills) and establishment of household units? Establishment of a cooperative  to manage the central unit and sell eggs? Technical support on production unit management and marketing, including a business plan, Traini
ng and support to advocacy ? Opening of a chicken feed plant to produce food for chicken for the regionThe project will promote the right to livelihoods of 800 youth and 450 women. It will benefit indirectly their families and communities, as well as the c
onsumers in the 5 departments. Implementing partner:KORAL (Konbit pou Ranfose Aksyon Lakay) and Christian
Zambia Land Alliance - Support to Strategic Plan 2009-2013 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 and em
powerment programmea)To promote security of customary land and sustainable land use by poor men women and youths especially in ZLA operational areasb)To promote and protect the rights of displaced and potential internally displaced persons and minority gro
ups in ZLA operational areasc)To strengthen local accountability in the land administration system for the urban and rural poor in ZLA operational areasd)To advocate for appropriate and timely reforms of laws and policies pertaining to land delivery and ad
ministration 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 development
 and management programmea)To review and strengthen the structures linkages and operations of the District Land Alliancesb)To improve ZLA?s governance and management effectiveness and sustainability of its organizational programmes
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finn Church Aid) The northern governorates of the West Bank, oPT have historically been restricted in development due to the Israeli occupation. The communities in these governorates have lost a significant amount of their land, much of which was agricultural. Thus, many p
eople have turned to sporadic casual labour at low pay, while others have turned toward developing agricultural activities using whatever land remains available to them. Many remain without any stable source of income and depend on aid from local and inter
national organisations and the Palestinian Authority.Unable to reach their main agricultural plots, those who can do so are compensating for the loss of access to their farmlands by cultivating smaller, accessible plots, usually home gardens or something o
f similar size, if available. Additionally, those who do find casual work in Israel are in many cases taking a significant risk, since many work without permits, allowing them to be easily exploited. However, the implementation of the Women?s Bank project 
during the past two and half years, helped many vulnerable women to sustain some stable income through the selling of their agricultural projects.  Discussion with beneficiary women of the targeted rural communities indicated that there is a need to expand
 on the current activities and help promote marketing of their own products. Yet, further and additional support and input is needed, including material support, as well as training and capacity building. Additional support expressed was the need to help c
reate linkages, especially with organisations that can help promote and market the beneficiary products.Objectives:? Improve the economic opportunity of 80 female households through support to help expand their agricultural project and marketing their prod
ucts.? To create linkages for 80 female households through capacity building and establishment of women?s agricultural collective enterprises (cooperatives).Activities: ? Coordinate with the local authorities and the village councils on the implementation 
of the project? Selection of beneficiaries? In-kind support for existing home gardens and beekeeping projects? Around 60 capacity building training sessions will be conducted in marketing, cooperative works, etc.? Establish networking for marketing purpose
s? Follow-up with monitoring and evaluationRights-holders /beneficiaries: Estimated number of direct beneficiaries: 80 female headed-households (600 family members). The direct beneficiaries inclu
EBRD Finland's transition fund Finland participates in EBRD's (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) SEMED (Southern and Eastern Mediterranean) fund in order to give support to Egypt Tunisia Morocco and Jordan in their transition processes. These countries have so far reques
ted to become recipient country of EBRD. Countries will be offered eg. technical assistance through TAM and BAS programs. The Finnish support will be earmarked for enhancing good governance gender equality democracy and human rights targets in banks' opera
tions in the region.
Capacity Building in Animal Genetic Evaluation Methods and Design of Dairy Breeding Programs to Strengthen Ethiopian Dairy Development The overall development objective of this ICI project between MTT Agrifood Reserach Finland  and National Artificial Insemination Center (NAIC) in Ethiopia is to improve food security and reduce poverty by improving the milk productivity of the cattle in E
thiopia. The project  focuses on strengthening the capacity  of NAIC and training people who are involved with the genetic improvement work related to milk production. This is a second phase of the project and will be implemented 2015-2017.  The first phas
e is implemenetd in 2011-2014.  The results of the first phase include creation of  national animal identification system   establishment of  national dairy herd performance system and monitoring scheme on a pilot scale establishment of computerized dairy 
cattle database center and training of experts and farmers in herd performance recording and advisory systems. The project is supported with 385 000 euros which is divided 2015: 85 000 euros 2016: 200 000 euros and 2017: 100 000 euros.
Frame agreement with NGO (SASK) The project improves the capacity and cooperation of steel, mining and energy sector unions to ensure that they can effectively defend and represent workers? interests in five target states in India.The cooperation between the trade unions in these sectors
 has long been minimal, and the rate of organization in these sectors is low. Labour right violations are common especially in the mining sector. The project strengthens the rate of organization and significantly contributes to the cooperation between the 
unions, so that they can better represent and guard the interests of the workers. The ability of the unions to operate in member recruitment, promotion of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), collective bargaining and solving of disputes will become more 
efficient. In a more concrete way, in 2014?2016 the project aims at getting 35,000 new members to the unions, creating a permanent professional pool of organisers (252 actives), a pool of trade union trainers (84 trainers), functioning OHS committees and 8
4 OHS trainers. The trade union structures of the states are strengthened and they become self-sufficient.  The beneficiaries are the permanent and short-term workers and white collar workers in the steel, mining and energy sectors. In addition, the organi
sers, trainers, OHS representatives, union representatives at the workplaces, actives and the leadership in the Indian affiliates of IndustriALL in the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh will benefit from the project.  
Main partner is IndustriALL Global Union, which coordinates the project. The implementing unions are IndustriALL?s Indian affiliates on selected sectors and states.
INT/Evaluation capacity development The objective of the project is to strengthen evaluation capacity and systems in Finland and in the partner countries to improve the quality of evaluations particularly the dissemination and use of evaluation results in decision making. The project will be
 implemented by organising training in Finland and in the partner countries. Part of the capacity development will be implemented in cooperation with the OECD/DAC/EVALNET Task Team working on evaluation capacity development which Finland chairs 2012-2013.
AfDF-13 - During the Thirteenth Replenishment consultations of the African Development Fund (AfDF-13) the Bank and the donor countries made decisions about the strategic and operational priorities of the AfDF-13. Finland's and other donor countries' contributions 
to the 13. replenishment of the resources of the African Development Fund were also determined.