Development policy

Development policy refers to coherent activity in all sectors of international cooperation and national policy that have an impact on the status of developing countries.

New framework programme strengthens partnership between Finland and Africa

Deputy Director General Sirpa Mäenpää, Minister Paavo Väyrynen and Director General Ritva Koukku-Ronde. Photo: Hanna Ovaskainen. The Foreign Ministry’s new development policy framework programme for Africa creates a strategic frame of reference for strengthening partnership between Finland and Africa through development policy measures. “The continent is the most important focal point of Finland’s development policy,” said Minister Väyrynen in explaining the reasons for the programme at the press conference held to publicise its release.

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New framework programme strengthens partnership between Finland and Africa

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