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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).
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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.
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©FAO/ Joan Manuel Baliellas
Collaboration for open-source land
registration software