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Finland and FAO Working together to build resilience Cooperation between Finland and FAO has been ongoing since the Organization was established in 1945. Finland has contributed as well as financially, through active participation in FAO’s work and has been a key donor for projects around the world. As a traditional partner in FAO’s Assistant Professional Officer (APO) Programme, Finland has frequently financed APOs since 1965. The Organization liaises with the Government of Finland through the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs while Finland’s national FAO Committee works under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to plan and coordinate activities. The country’s engagement spans a full range of activities, from emergency assistance to innovative partnership for agriculture development. The Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing Climate Programme was signed between the Government of Finland and FAO in 2009. It is part of the FAO-Government of Finland Cooperation Programme which aims to promote sustainable forest management, build capacities, test and develop methodologies, and deliver good practices and methods at the national level. It is a financed module of the broader FAO programme “Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development, Land use and Livelihoods”. The programme concentrated on building capacity, developing and testing methodologies and delivering best practices and methods at the national level for four different outcome areas: developing forest inventories, information systems, governance, sustainable forestry management and communication. About 60 percent of the total €19 million budget was allocated to the five pilot countries (Ecuador, Peru, Tanzania, Viet Nam and Zambia) and regional activities. ContactS Director South-South Cooperation and Resource Mobilization Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Tel: +39 0657055242 E-mail: [email protected] Mitigation of climate change in agriculture Since 2010 the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme has contributed to making agriculture more climate-smart. The programme has been made possible thanks to funding from Finland as well as Germany and Norway. It complements other FAO and United Nations efforts to address climate change and collaborates with the UN-REDD Programme for the reduction of deforestation. The technical information generated by the MICCA programme supports negotiation processes undertaken through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Showing results on the ground is essential if farmers, policymakers, international organizations and donors are to be persuaded to make climate-smart agriculture a priority. To address this need, MICCA is carrying out two pilot projects in Africa. These projects provide quantifiable evidence that climate-smart agricultural practices can mitigate climate change, improve farmers’ lives and make local communities better able to adapt to climate change. Each of MICCA’s pilot projects is a collaborative effort carried out in partnership with national and international partners within the framework of larger agricultural development projects. In Kenya, the pilot project is being undertaken within the framework of the East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD), a regional industry development programme led by Heifer International. In the United Republic of Tanzania, the pilot project is being carried out within the Hillside Conservation Agriculture Project, which is managed by CARE International. In both pilot projects, the MICCA team collaborates closely with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). 6/2015/2 ©FAO/Seyllou Diallo Sustainable forest management in a changing climate programme In 2010, Finland and FAO partnered to assist countries to develop sustainable and affordable land administration systems to improve tenure security and land governance in both rural and urban areas. The US$2.4 million project, piloted in Ghana, Nepal and Samoa, sought to allow member countries to test and adopt low-cost open source technology for the benefit of their land records maintenance. The project promoted affordable software systems that enable quick improvements in transparency and equity of governance. The introduction of information technology systems to land registration is one of the key ways to reduce corrupt and nontransparent land management “Agriculture must build practices. Moreover, effective IT resilience to climate systems improve the structure change to achieve global food security.” and accessibility of records, facilitating knowledge-based José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General decision making and wider data dissemination. The final result, a fully functional OSCAR shell with an active online user community, has been designed to circumvent barriers to the use of information technology by developing countries in order to improve land registration systems and to enhance tenure security. The experiences of Ghana, Nepal and Samoa will be widely disseminated to encourage other FAO member countries to consider the advantages of open software solutions in the development of their land administration. Emergency drought response Following chronic drought in the Horn of Africa from 2010 to 2011, Finland committed to helping Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) members and the communities affected in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Objectives included monitoring the food security conditions in the region; promoting efforts to use response analysis to identify improved, better coordinated crisis response while maintaining quality, national level early warning; and promoting greater debate within the regional humanitarian and development community on improved programming. The project involved encouraging better collaboration between agencies to support high-quality information for early warning systems and creating the FSNWG’s monthly map of food security conditions. It also developed the disaster risk reduction website and publishing security information for FAO’s Subregional Emergency Office for Eastern and Central Africa (REOA), as well as analysis reports and a water point mapping inventory and monitoring system. Additionally, the project facilitated trainings for national early warning systems in the region, including Integrated Food Security Phase; and conducted research on how drought is managed from the beneficiaries’ perspective, aiding humanitarian and development agencies’ future responses, and delivered trainings with a focus on HIV and gender-based violence in emergencies. As a result, the region saw increased resilience in affected communities: over the course of more than a year, the number of people in crisis or emergency situations was reduced from 12.3 million to 5.9 million. The project also impacted international discussions on livelihood changes in rural areas and the impacts of those changes, particularly what they mean for promoting resilience. Finally, it improved the way government and non-government actors work in order to strengthen relationships between agencies to improve food and nutrition security. ©FAO/Daniel Hayduk ©FAO/ Joan Manuel Baliellas Collaboration for open-source land registration software