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Finland has granted general support from the 2024 development cooperation allocation to the UN Population Fund UNFPA EUR 25 million, the UN Equality Organization UN Women EUR 19 million, the UN Children's Fund to UNICEF EUR 7 million, the UN Development Program to UNDP EUR 2 million and the UN 's environmental program for UNEP 1.5 million euros.
"Thanks to Finland's support, UN development organizations can respond more effectively and faster to crises and global challenges. They focus their work where help is most needed and help people in the most vulnerable positions, such as disabled people," says Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio .
UNFPA works for women and girls. During 2023, the work done with Finnish support prevented almost 900 maternal deaths, prevented almost 500,000 unplanned pregnancies and supported the access of more than 700,000 women and girls to sexual and reproductive health services.
With the help of UN Women, women's social participation and the improvement of legislation at country level are strengthened. In 2022 - 2023, UN Women's work reached 2.8 billion women in 78 countries through the development of legislation promoting equality.
Thanks to UNICEF 's support, in 2023 approximately 37.7 million children and young people, half of whom are girls, could go to school. 132.9 million children were vaccinated against measles and more than 400 million children were vaccinated against polio. UNICEF has innovation centers in Helsinki that develop e.g. digital learning solutions and offer cooperation opportunities for Finnish companies, public and academic actors.
UNDP works to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. The organization has also supported Ukraine and its citizens in the middle of the war, for example by rebuilding schools and hospitals. UNDP also works to promote good governance and democracy in different countries. In 2023, UNDP supported arrangements in 22 elections with a total of more than 328.4 million voters.
UNEP supports the development of environmental administrations in developing countries and provides secretariat services for international environmental agreements. UNEP is e.g. assessed the environmental damage of the war in Ukraine, initiated international plastic treaty negotiations and helped 138 developing countries in preventing nature loss.
"Finland pays special attention to the fact that the organizations' risk management and control mechanisms work. This is something we keep up in all discussions with the UN," says Minister Tavio.
