Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Biodiversity
Children
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Coorporate Accountability
Debt Relief
Decolonization
Development
Economics and Finance
Education
Energy
Environment
Extreme poverty
Financing for Development
Food
Governance
HIV/AIDS
Habitat
Human Rights
Humanitarian Affairs
Indigenous Peoples
Law of the Sea and Antarctica
Least Developed Countries
Micro-Credit
Migration
Minority Rights
New Global Institutions
Peace and Security
Population
Private Sector
Refugees
Social Development
Sports for Peace and Development
Sustainable Development
Taxation Policy
Trade and Development
United Nations Funding
United Nations Reform
Values
Volunteerism
Water
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Financing for Development:
Addressing systemic issues
External debt
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
International Cooperation in Tax Matters
International Trade as an engine for development
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
Mobilizing international resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Indigenous women
Information and communication technologies
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
The girl child
Trafficking in women and girls
Violence against women
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women and armed conflict
Women and health
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Women and the environment
Women and the media
Women and the media
Women in power and decision-making
Population:
International migration
Population distribution and internal migration
Population growth
Population structure
Reproduction, family formation and the status of women
Public Administration:
Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
Governance and Public Administration
Public Financial Management
Public Service and Management Innovation
Socio-Economic Governance and Management
Social Development:
Conflict
Cooperative
Indigenous issues
Poverty
Social policy
Youth
Statistics:
Demographic and social surveys
Development indicators
Environmental Accounts
International Comparison Programme
International Economic and Social Classifications
International migration
Poverty statistics
Social Statistics and Social Monitoring
Statistics on international trade in services
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Atmosphere
Biodiversity
Capacity-building
Climate change
Consumption and production patterns
Demographics
Desertification and Drought
Disaster management and vulnerability
Education
Energy
Finance
Forests
Freshwater
Gender equality
Health
Human settlements
Indicators
Industrial development
Information for decision-making and participation
Institutional arrangements
Integrated decision-making
International cooperation for an enabling environment
International law
Land management
Major Groups
Marine Resources
Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
Mining
Mountains
Oceans and seas
Partnerships
Poverty
Protecting and managing the natural resources
Rural Development
Sanitation
Sustainable development for Africa
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Sustainable development of SIDS
Technology
Trade and environment
Transport
Waste (solid)
Waste Management
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| Geographic scope: |
National
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| Country of activity: |
Finland
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2002 |
| Organizational structure: |
The membership of Kehys consists of 39 Finnish non-governmental organisations that share an interest towards EU development cooperation and policy. The members nominate a board of directors that governs the activities of Kehys and its secreteriat. The board consists of members from our member organisations, in total of 11 board members. The secretariat consists of three permanent staff membersas well as interns, trainees and project workers. The size of the secretariat varies between 4 and 9. |
| Number and type of members: |
The membership of Kehys consists of 39 Finnish non-governmental organisations that share an interest towards EU development cooperation and policy. They vary from branches of international organisations to small-scale organisations. Most of our members have projects funded by the EU, they are currently applying for funding or are considering of applying for funding from the EU. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Kehys is the Finnish national platform of CONCORD, the European federation of relief and development NGOs. |
| Funding structure: |
Membership fees or dues
Fees for education and training services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
Grants from Governments
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