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Civic skills via media education in Palestine The project aims at offering media literacy education to Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) practitioners journalists and municipality workers by arranging hands-on workshops and theoretical training on media literacy and the importance of med
ia ethics social media and marketing in the new media context.In Palestine where an enabling media system is still in its infancy professionally adopting new media tools is very challenging. The use of social media for information sharing and civic activis
m is very much on the rise in the area and there is wide demand for social media education among local media professionals. By arranging workshops and trainings in cooperation with Birzeit University's Media Development Center (MDC) responsible for the rec
ently developed Palestinian National Media Strategy different kinds of target groups can effectively be reached.Main goals of the project are:1. To encourage public debate as part of an open and democratic society and effective market economy. 2. To streng
then local participants? know-how and professionalism.3. As a result of the first two goals and as cross-cutting goal to promote equality democracy and human rights.These goals are formulated in cooperation with the MDC and are based on local needs and obj
ectives defined by local actors. The overall objective is to support Palestine not to be left out of the fast-paced development of global media. The project directly supports the implementation of the ground-breaking National Media Strategy.Main outputs of
 the project are:1. Training courses (with a distance learning option) on media literacy ethics tools and marketing in a social media context in two West Bank locations.2. Permanent online learning environment in Arabic and English.The concrete output of t
he project in addition to training courses is creation of a permanent open access learning environment where also a newly established Media Literacy Manual will be available both in Arabic and in English and can therefore be used for various situations reg
ardless of time and place. A print manual has successfully been used in MDC?s trainings. This manual however is somewhat obsolete and needs updating.Online material has almost unlimited dissemination potential and this would help us disseminate our project
 results outside the Palestinian Territories. (For more on the Finnish utilization of the results please see section on Dissemination).
Capacity building between MTT and University of Sfax on food production and security The institutional capacity-building project between the MTT Agrifood Research Finland and the National Engineering School of the University of Sfax (ENIS) aims to improve the food security of Tunisia by developing a sustainable and national potato producti
on system. The ICI project builds the capacity of the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology of ENIS to produce new national and disease-free potato varieties which are more adapted to the environmental conditions of Tunisia chacterised by drought and high sali
nity compared to currently used imported potato varieties and which have a higher tolerance to biotic stress factors. The project develops the whole potato production chain from the micropropagation technology at the laboratory level to the marketing of ne
w commercial Tunisian potato varieties in which private sector actors play a key role. The direct beneficiary of the project is the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology of ENIS but the project will ultimately benefit the whole Tunisian population particularly
 people living in the poorest agricultural regions and small-scale farmers.  The duration of the project is three years and its budget is 690 000 euros. The activities capacity-building and training of the project aim to achieve three results: the developm
ent of the field research capacity and laboratory of ENIS particularly the establishment of the micropropagation technology for the development of national potato varieties, increased knowledge and capacity at ENIS to carry out research on potato bioactive
 compounds, and the enhancement of the production and marketing chain of Tunisian seed potato. The possible risks identified in the project include unexpected changes in the political economic or security situation of the country and challenges involved in
 the introduction of new technologies.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Foundation for Human Rights/KIOS) Contribution to the Promotion of Human Rights Education of Batwa
Continued Education of the Personnel in the Saba Saba Health Care Centre The inhabitants of Morogoro (300 000) do not receive qualitative basic health care because the regional hospital does not admit patients of this level any more. Morogoro Municipality have decided to 1. upgrade the standard of one Saba Saba health centre an
d to 2. change it into a municipal hospital as soon as the state will grant it the recourses for building equipment and personnel. At the moment the health centre cannot guarantee qualified basic health care  due to lack of the personnels' know-how and the
 insufficient equipment and instruments. Long-term objective of the project is that Morogoro inhabitants will receive qualitative basic health care. It would also serve other health institutions.Objectives: 1) Qualified and skilled personnel in  the health
 centre with necessary equipment and instruments (focused in the four areas prioritized by them) 2) Know-how of the personnel in other health care institutions will also improve thanks to job-circulation.It is also necessary for the poor disabled elderly p
eople and HIV-patients to receive good health care at affordable price.In support of developing a new health care level in Morogoro municipality according to a decision made by the state the region and the municipality: one health centre will be upgraded (
later into a municipal hospital. The aim is to support that phase by supervising  the personnel in a future project)
Frame Agreement with NGO (Foundation for Human Rights/KIOS) Capacitating grassroots LGBTI activists, especially related to safety issues. Defenders Protection Initiative DPI www.defendersprotection.org
Strengthening the capacity of Nepal Scouts Nepal is a country with a history of conflict lack of education and rule by the few.Our project aims to tackle these issues by strengthening the capacity of a local youth organization - Nepal Scouts - which with 30 000 members working with the youth all ov
er Nepal. The objective of the project in the long run is to promote the participation of children and youth gender equality as well as role of the civil society in developing local communities and peace building by strengthening the capacity of Nepal Scou
ts. By enabling Nepal Scouts to be more efficient and democratic NGO the project aims to enforce civil participation of Nepalese citizens as well as offer quality non-formal education.The project and it's two hired employees will work from the Nepal Scouts
 Headquarters in Kathmandu from where they will organize project activities in cooperation with the Nepal Scouts volunteers all over the country.The project's main activities are Youth Participation and Peace Forums Leadership Trainings Trainers' Seminars 
(ToT) locally organized Community Development Projects and development of Educational Methods. Beneficiaries constitute from young membes of Nepal Scouts volunteering scout leaders scout trainers local community people and key persons of Nepal Scouts.
Skills For Actionable Sustainable Technologies  (SkillsFAST) SkillsFAST brings together 3 institutions from Finland (SHALIN HAMK and Lumivio Oy) 6 cooperatives from Kenya 2 vocational schools (Tanzania + eSeeker Uganda).  The Tanzania vocational school has a strategic partnership with Muhimbiri National Hospital whi
ch will use the vocational training skills to boost the rehabilitation process for former Methodone users.  eSeeker Uganda provides vocational training in renewable energy to youth and adults. The project is coordinated by Twaweza Communications Twaweza us
es communication as a tool for social transformation within Kenya and has collaborating partners in Tanzania.The main idea of the project is to harness the different competencies and capacities of the complementary stakeholders/beneficiaries into a program
me that delivers supportive services to vocational schools as well as the other partners.  The project cross-diffuses knowledge into the existing cooperative networks and wider society.  At the vocational level the project advances the value of the existin
g curriculum and promotes renewable energy and food systems as a pedagogical practical study.  The project also introduces the teaching of solar energy as an enterprise.  At the cooperative level the project consolidates the knowledge on sustainable techno
logies which is then integrated into the learning circle.  At the same level the Cooperatives get additional technical support allowing them to be competitive in their niche market. Each of the project players has a supportive role to the project ecosystem
. The project is centrally managed and coordinated by Twaweza Communication who also offer their expertise in social  transformation to broaden the projects impact and outreach.SHALIN and the Kenya cooperative network provide the platform through which fie
ld tested information on renewable energy and food systems is packaged for education by HAMK.  HAMK transforms the information into educational modules which are then utilised by both GOIG and eSeeker vocational training (Centers).   Lumivio Oy provides th
e solar start up kits and supporting information (instructional material) the instructional material is transformed into pedagogic content by HAMK in collaboration with the vocational centers who then teach the module.  In Kenya the solar enterprise start 
up kit is introduced directly to the coop network through the trainings and support coordination offered by Twaweza communication.
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) Supportin  local small-scale farmers in producing vegetable seeds for their own use as well as for sale. Income generating activities.
Frame agreement with NGO (FIDIDA) VAMCPAA - Program for Independence and Economic Empowerment of Mobility Challenged People - PIEE 2013-2015. WHAT: The project supports the labour market situation and standard of living of people with mobility disabilities in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.WHY: In E
thiopia the mobility disabled people are often considered as unable to provide living for themselves. Lots of disabled people end up in Addis Ababa in hope of better income. HOW: Project aims to increase the vocational and small business skills of people w
ith mobility disabilities in Addis Ababa and to enable them to be self-employed and economically more independent. The project benefits the mobility disabled people who are trained and their next of kin.PARTNER ORGANISATION: The project is implemented by V
AMCPAA (Voluntary Association of Mobility Challenged People in Addis Ababa).
Impact of climate change in ecosystems in Eastern Africa The project studies the impacts of climate change on East African biodiversity rich montane ecosystems related ecosystem services and food security. It also enhaces the capacity of local actors related to information gathering and updating as well as clima
te change adaptation. The project also aims at developing applicable adaptation strategies.
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) Food security in three sectors:  sustainable livelihoods, adequate health care and healthy environment. Poverty and low food security is the main problem in rural area and the program improve living conditions and enchance livelihood in rural area. As resu
lt  there are more microprojects, agri- and horticultural training, variation of good quality seeds, water supplies and sanitation in rural area of Foundiougne.  By improving the health care households have better access to health services and morbidity is
 reduced also by health education., health education and environment protection training . Environment sector gives as results: ecological methods in agriculture, composts, biogas systems, recycling and better waste management. Beneficieries are communitie
s in rural area and especially  women and children.  Our implementing partner is Lutheran church of Senegal who has a long experience of work in the poorest rural areas and competency in water supply projects.
Frame Agreement with NGO (Foundation for Human Rights/KIOS) Consolidation and Creation of Resources on Rights Law and Gender
Oxfam Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public Services Oxfam is a non-profit non-governmental organisation which is part of a confederation of 17 organisations working together in more than 90 countries to mobilize the power of people against poverty.Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public
 Services is a 3 year project with the overall objective of making fiscal systems in at least 3 countries more progressive to tackle inequality and poverty. Oxfam will do this by building citizen-led campaigns on fiscal justice to generate the missing 'pol
itical will' amongst leaders and policy-makers that is necessary to strengthen the revenue-raising potential of tax-systems and deliver more and better investment in free public services.Through this project Oxfam will push for domestic resources in in Ken
ya and Vietnam to be mobilised in a responsible progressive and transparent way with strong civil society influence. Oxfam will also push for revenue raised to be spent on quality public service provision (healt education water and sanitation). Through inf
luencing both fairer and more accountable revenue-raising and spending this project will strengthen the 'social contract' between citizens and their government and tackle inequalities.Putting fiscal policy at the heart of national influencing work in this 
way requires partner organisations to engage in the design and delivery of national strategy therefore we have proposed an initial 6-month inception phase during which detailed log frame and activity plan will be developed with partners for the remaining 2
.5 years of the project. This approach is crucial to ensure the project is strategic and owned by civil society and has lasting impact.Oxfam will work with partners to target policy makers in order to reduce inequality and increase access to quality public
 services. The building of 'political will' amongst policy makers will ensure government meet their responsibilities to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities and be accountable to citizens in doing so.The project beneficiaries will be citizens especial
ly women in areas where Oxfam and our partners work. Citizens will be better able to advocate for their rights as taxpayers to quality public service delivery. Partners will benefit from technical expertise on DRM and advocacy skills through capacity build
ing and training. Government officials will benefit from recognizing their responsibility for service provision and tackling inequality.
ESCWA National Agenda for the Future of Syria The project by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) focuses on assessing the damage caused by the Syrian crisis and it aims to begin the process to establish a common understanding on the reconstruction of Syria (National Agenda for 
the Future of Syria Project). The goal is to produce a comprehensive range of options for national reconciliation democracy and the promotion of economic reconstruction. The project has progressed to its second stage during which an initial assessment of t
he needs for the reconstruction of Syria will be produced. The priorities of the construction phase will be water management and agriculture housing small business support energy and infrastructure. Also questions regarding trade industry and social infras
tructure such as schools and hospitals will be examined.It is recommended that the proposal be funded by 200000 Euros in one installement in 2014.
Frame agreement with NGO (Fida Int.) Psychosocial Skills Support for Meca Region Projects. The purpose of the project is improved coping and life skills in personal life, marriage and parenthood of the community members in the communities where the project has taken place.This project is part
nering with other Fida projects in the region (5430, 5420, 5440, 5411, 5442, 5320). The target areas and beneficiary groups are determined by the other Fida work in Meca-region countries as the project idea is to support the other Fida projects.The project
 will help the communities to recognize mental health conditions more often, to empower communities to create mutual learning opportunities, to improve the skills of dealing with distressing experiences, to help the communities to include sexuality educati
on in all levels of education, to empower educational staff to balance academic skills and life skills in the formal education, to empower parenthood,  to increase educational staff?s capacity  to deal with children with special needs, and to improve commu
nity workers? counseling skills. This will be done by a) training partners? staff and volunteers b) training educational staff and c) raising mental health awareness and mental self-help skills in the communities. The goal is improved athmosphere in the pr
oject communities  (Halabja and Ankawa in Kurdistan, Bir Zeit and Jericho in the West Bank, Karak, Badia and Hai Nazal in Jordan, Wazzaan in Morocco, Tajikistan).
Frame agreement with NGO (Demo Finland) In Finland, the goal of Demo Finland is to raise awareness in issues concerning development and democracy among political parties and also to enhance positive attitudes towards development co-operation among Finnish political parties. Demo Finland offers a
 chance for Finnish political parties and politicians to gain a practical experience in democracy support and to utilize their personal expertise from politics.
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) Developing and advocating for  community-based mental health support mechanisms.
Indigenous rights and culture in Adivasi forest communities Rights and dignity of Adivasis are in many ways threatened even by India's development aims/measures which discriminate against their life-heritage. More than 30 million Adivasis have been thus displaced by development projects in India during the last 60 
years ? Adivasis being around 50 % of  the development-displaced people even though they are less than 10 % of India's population. Most exposed to human rights violations in Chattisgarh + neighboring states are the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups' (P
VTGs) like Baiga Birhor Kamar Pahadi Korba Kutia or Panga communities.Big development projects like mines forest plantations + dams endanger PVTG communities' subsistence life-heritage + culture pushing PVTGs to the margins of existence away from their hom
es and habitats where they have been able to live by carbon-binding forest-regeneration based livelihoods like minor forest produce gathering by traditional subsistence cultivation bamboo work + other indigenous ways of life adapted to the local environmen
t.Our project supports the PVTG-Adivasi communities to defend their traditional forest habitat + community rights their indigenous occupations + means of subsistence compliant to India's Forest Rights Act (FRA) in Chhattisgarh + 3 neighboring states. FRA p
rotects equality of rights providing also for PVTGs tenurial security their indigenous rights to habitat self-determined livelihood + environment to be legally registered equally for women. But the implementation of these rights requires from the PVTG comm
unities a lot of activities for which they need our support.Project supports PVTG women also to defend their rights to water health education + information.   It also activates PVTG Development Authorities to bottom-up planning and transparency to carry ou
t their duties with the allocated PVTG budgetary provisions - to address PVTGs' declining population literacy below 5% + remote isolated habitation (etc.). Tasks of PVTG Development Authorities have been neglected by top-down policies non-transparency + go
vernmental inertia. PVTGs' cooperation forums workshops + trainings strengthen their unity + make them aware of their rights. Project makes also wider audience aware of threatened sustainable PVTG-life by public events video films photo-exhibition + other 
documentation/newsletter dissemination and creates national + international campaigning pressure towards the authorities to get PVTGs' rights duly implemented.
INGO/Forum for African women educationalists (FAWE) An organisation founded in Kenya in 1992 the objectives of which are:1) to enhance the educational opportunities for girls and women and 2) to create better networks for ngo-cooperation in the education sector in Africa.
Administrative cost of MFA missions abroad for TANZANIA Administrative cost of MFA missions abroad for TANZANIA. Costs generated from the Embassy of Finland
Frame agreement with NGO (Suomen Lahetysseura ry) FELM?s partner, the North Eastern Diocese of the ev.luth. Church in Tanzania, constructs a district hospital in collaboration with Tanzanian government. Before the opening of Kilindi CDH the nearest hospital was 120 km away in the neighbourg district Hande
ni. Due to bad roads and poor transport facilities hospital services were often impossible to reach. Particularly mothers and children were suffering from the situation. The hospital was opened in 2009 by opening the most crucial services like maternity wa
rd and operating theatre. By the end of 2013 two general wards, an out patients department, kitchen, laundry, mortuary and paediatric ward were completed.  To offer the community a complete package of health services as a council Designated Hospital in Tan
zanian health care system there is still need for Reproductive and Child care unit, Care and treatment clinic, Laboratory building, Administration block and a Staff house block by the end of 2016. Since the opening of Kilindi CDH access to health services 
in the area has improved remarkably, people get treatment and services and delivery in hospital save lives for mothers and children. The catchment area of the hospital is Kilindi district which has approx. 237.000 inhabitants. They are mainly small scale f
armers and pastoralists. The project is implemented by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania North Eastern Diocese ELCT-NED) which is FELM?s longtime partner and well known and appreciated for her services in the region (e.g. 3 hospitals, schools, un
iversity).
CENTRAL-ASIA FLC/ Administrative costs Central Asian Local Cooperation Projects administrative costs
Frame Agreement with NGO (Finn Church Aid) FCA will exit from the Central America by the end of 2016. In the beginning of 2014, FCA held exit negotiations with its Central American partners and signed MoU on exit with each partner. As the Lutheran World Federation is one of our main partners in the
 region, the MoU included supporting LWF in strengthening their capacity to find new sources of funding during and beyond FCA?s exit. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the strengthening of sustainability and continuity of the Central
 American Programme of the Lutheran World Federation. This is mainly done through enforcing the management of financial resources and especially the capacity of LWF and its local partners in resource mobilisation, fundraising and project/proposal design an
d writing. The project will include two components: ? LWF will elaborate a resource management strategy to ensure its sustainability and alternative sources of funding in the region. ? To focus on strengthening the capacity of the LWF and its? partners? st
aff in proposal/project design and formulation, fundraising and other issues that the new fundraising and resource management strategy would indicate.  The project will focus on increasing and strengthening the skills of the LWF Central America staff (at l
east 22 team members from different functions) and local implementing partner staff (21 local organizations) in the four countries of the region.Implementing partner:Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Central America Programme