Siltasaarenkatu 4
00530 Helsinki
Finland
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Others
- Research
- Youth and education
Kehys provides:
• information on EU funding for Finnish NGOs
• training and consultancy • information on EU development policy and cooperation
• support for NGOs to influence the EU Kehys promotes:
• debate about EU development policy
• networking and information-sharing between NGOs in Finland, in the EU and globally.
Kehys focuses on:
1. Advice and training on EU funding Kehys provides Finnish NGOs with information on EU funding opportunities for development cooperation and development education projects. Kehys also offers various forms of training and advice.
2. Development policy advocacy Kehys actively engages in the debate on EU development policy and supports Finnish NGOs in understanding and influencing the EU by distributing information and facilitating policy activities. Kehys focuses especially on policy coherence for development.
3. Development education Kehys promotes development education in Finland and acts as a link to European development education forums.
4. Networking Kehys supports its members in networking with other NGOs in Europe and in the developing countries. Kehys encourages NGOs to take up development policy issues, to find new partners and to collaborate with different stakeholders in the enlarged EU. Kehys coordinates thematic working groups, which bring together representatives of civil society, administration and research community to discuss and plan common actions on different themes related to EU development policies.
5. Information Kehys operates a mailing list to inform about events, training courses and other themes related to EU development policy and EU advocacy. Kehys also operates a separate mailing list concentrating on EU funding and publishes a monthly newsletter (in Finnish).
1. Consultation/Training on EU Funding: KEHYS initiates dialogue with Finnish officials and decision makers in order to improve the possibilities of the Finnish NGOs to get funding from the EU. The important mission of KEHYS is to serve Finnish NGOs by offering training, consultancy and information on EU funding.
2. Development Education: KEHYS participates in promoting development education and cooperates with European NGOs working for the development education. Kehys is co-organising the 2011 summer school on development education, which takes place in Finland.
3. Advocacy on Development Policy: KEHYS keeps in touch with decision makers in Finland and the rest of Europe concerning EU development policy. In order to rise public awareness on European Union's development policies, The Finnish Platform to the EU offers training on EU and its development cooperation projects. -debates about the up-to-date development issues.
4. Networking: KEHYS assists its members' networking in Finland, in the rest of the EU and globally.