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For an overview of
Finland's
Official Development Assistance, please click here.
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The Department for
International Development Cooperation is part of the
Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
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Finnish bilateral development
cooperation distinguishes between two partnership categories,
"Long-term Partner Countries" and "other
partnerships". Please find criteria for the selection, as
well as instruments of cooperation in the policy document
"Operationalisation of Development Policy Objectives in
Finland's International Development Cooperation",
February 2001.[1]
Partner countries include the following: Mozambique, Viet Nam,
Ethiopia, United Republic of Tanzania, Nepal, Kenya,
Nicaragua, Zambia, Egypt, Namibia, Peru, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Palestinian Authority, China, Serbia and
Montenegro, South Africa, Timor-Leste. |
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The Finish development
priorities are the promotion of global security, poverty
reduction, human rights and democracy, prevention of global
environmental problems, promotion of economic dialogue. |
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The choice of programmes and
sectors is oriented towards the principles set in the
poverty-reduction strategy adopted by the partner country on
the one hand, and is based on the two policy papers
"Decision-in-principle on Finland's Development
Cooperation" and "Finland's Policy on Relations with
Developing Countries" on the other.[2] |
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Finland sets the following
criteria for its sector programmes: Responsibility for the
whole initiative is with the target country's authorities and
stakeholders, including the development of comprehensive
development plans, and the use of the partner country's
existing administrative structures in implementation.
Finland follows an output-oriented approach. The monitoring of
the initiatives takes place through jointly defined criteria.
In case direct sectoral or general budgetary support is not
yet possible, projects will be supported according to the
country's set priorities. It is intended to work for the
building up of the partner country's own administrative
structures and procedures. In general fewer countries are
supported with more resources now. The defined support limit
of three sector programmes or projects per country.
As condition attached to assistance partner countries are
required to possess adequate capacity in order to realize the
initiative and to be committed to good governance. |
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Please find information about
support of Non-Governmental Organizations and International
Non-Governmental Organizations here: http://global.finland.fi
> English > NGOs and INGOs. |
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- "Decision-in-principle
on Finland's Development Cooperation", September
1996, including the main goals of Finnish development
cooperation, and forms and channels of cooperation;
- "Finland's Policy on
Relations with Developing Countries", October 1998
(shows development cooperation's role as part of the
Finnish foreign policy) ;
- Decision-in-principle:
"Operationalisation of Development Policy Objectives
in Finland's International Development Cooperation",
February 2001 (contains the criteria for the selection of
partner countries and instruments of cooperation).[3]
- Evaluation reports: http://global.finland.fi
> English > Evaluations
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| Name |
Department
for International Development Cooperation |
| Street
Address |
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
Department for International Development Cooperation
Information Unit
Kanavakatu 4 a 00160 Helsinki
Finland |
| Mailing
Address |
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Department for International Development Cooperation
Information Unit
P.O.Box 176 00161 Helsinki
Finland |
| Phone |
[+358]
(9) 1605 6370, 1605 6349 |
| Fax |
[+358] (9) 1605 6375 |
| E-Mail |
keoinfo@formin.fi,
firstname.lastname@formin.fi |
| Website
(languages) |
http://global.finland.fi
(English, Finnish, Swedish) |
| Opening
hours |
Information
unit: Monday-Friday 8.00-16.00 Library: Monday-Friday
10.00-16.00 |
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Unless indicated otherwise
information concerning Finland's development cooperation is
taken from the following sources: Website of the Department
for International Development Cooperation of the Finnish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://global.finland.fi
> English, access: 01 August 2003;
Riddell 2002, pp. 19 + 24. |
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