Shiffa Association is a multicultural women´s organization founded in 2005 by skilled immigrant women in Finland. Shiffa has organized art and media training for women in Africa since 2007, and managed cultural projects in Finland, among others a collaborative exhibition and workshop project as part of the Turku2011 European Capital of Culture official program. At the moment Shiffa employs 4 people. Many more work for Shiffa as a volunteer. Association's main donor is Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Financing for projects in a year is approximately 100 000€. Our partners in Finland: Ministry for Foreign Affairs Ministry of Education and Culture Turku 2011 Foundation Women Journalists in Finland Women´s Culture Association African Care In Somalia and Somaliland: HARDO Halgan Rehabilitation and Development Action SOCSA Somaliland Culture and Sports Association SWIMA Somaliland Women in Media Association

The Somali Forum for Progress Finland is a NGO, based on volunteerism, established in January 2010 to support and sustain the activities of an interactive platform. The virtual platform has a website still under development, but we have organized several seminars, in Helsinki and in Nairobi. We also contribute to an open monthly discussion forum in Helsinki with the Finland-Somalia Association and plan to initiate a new programme called Youth Forum next year.

In November 2000 the idea of an independent radio station in Jordan, whether on the internet or on the FM waves, was nothing more than a dream. When Amman mayor Nedal Hadid and UNESCO director Martin Hadlow clicked the mouse to announce the launch of the Arab world’s first internet radio station, AmmanNet.net, we had no idea where we would be years later. Our pioneering efforts online has produced results in Jordan that are unmatched in nearby Arab countries. Tens of news websites have sprouted up offering Jordanian, Arab and international surfers up-to-date and courageous news and commentaries from Jordan. Our use of the Net to broadcast radio programming was given a boost when a Palestinian radio station agreed to rebroadcast some of our programs that they downloaded from the internet. With no physical boundaries between Palestine and Jordan, these broadcasts were heard in Amman thus allowing our internet broadcasting to de facto break up the Jordan government’s monopoly over the airwaves. Within a couple of years of our going on line, His Majesty the King issued a temporary law allowing the creation of an audio visual commission, which in turn made it possible for terrestrial broadcasting. We applied for and received a ten year FM license in 2005 and have been broadcasting news, alternative music and specialized programming since then. Our challenges with our internet and radio broadcasts are huge. We often find ourselves alone in covering certain sensitive news. More often we see that our efforts are setting the agenda for all other news organizations. We have focused a lot of our work on empowering different segments of society, from high school students to college age youths, from farming women to labor activists and the handicapped. We have encouraged volunteers to use our media operations as a platform to reflect on their own issues and as a way to have a voice in a crowded media field. On the news level we have and continue to work hard on providing high quality news around the clock. We dug deep into certain issues using investigative journalism tools as well as focus on human rights violations. Al-Balad radio staff gained experience and training and have attempted to adhere to our professional code of ethics. Al-Balad radio, our community radio station in Amman, has become a model community radio providing training services and networking opportunities for local, regional and international groups. Internationally, we were the local sponsors of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, which held its global meeting AMARC9 in Amman. Locally we have been a driving force behind the establishment of a Jordanian Federation of Community radio stations that include Voice of Karak, New Maan radio, Yarmouk FM and Farah Al-Nas radio. Our training efforts have and continue to help journalists and community radio activists from most surrounding Arab countries. From Tunis to Iraqi Kurdistan and from Syria to Saudi Arabia we have hosted workshops in areas such as crime of war coverage, humanizing the news and community radio training. We held regional workshops looking for ways to advance the presence of female experts in media coverage. While we enjoy a successful FM radio presence, we have not forgotten that our beginnings were online. We introduced video blogging to our site with impressive results. We organized training and gave video cameras to tens of Jordanians who were asked to record, edit and upload the results of their filming. Our original website AmmanNet has given birth to four additional sites Balad.fm, eyeonmediajo.net, shababjo.net and communitymedianetwork.org. We have also expanded our work in the Arab region. We helped set up the Aswatona (aswatona.net) network which supports community media throughout the Arab region. With help from our donors we have directly helped support seven community radio stations and conducted three regional conferences on community media in the Arab region. shamma@ammannet.net; ersan@ammannet.net;  

ACHRS has only one office; based in Amman, Jordan. ACHRS has two governing structures; the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council. The director of the centre is responsible for the day-to-day running of the centre and is assisted by a team of eight permanent members of staff and several interns

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Wider Security Network (WISE) is a civil society network established in October 2015 that brings together Finnish NGOs and parliamentary groups, to work together to promote peacebuilding, crisis management and conflict prevention both nationally and internationally. WISE highlights the importance of human security, according to which security discussion should include broader perspectives than just the traditional aspects of security. Wider human security includes e.g. human rights and participation, democracy and good governance, environmental and economical questions as well as sustainable development. WISE on lokakuussa 2015 Kansalaisjärjestöjen konfliktinehkäisyverkosto KATUn ja ETY-yhdistys STETEn tuki ry:n yhdistymisen pohjalta perustettu laajan turvallisuuden verkosto, joka yhdistää kansalaisjärjestöjä ja eduskuntapuolueiden edustajia.

E2 Research is a multidisciplinary non-profit research organization that provides research-based information to municipalities, ministries, companies, organizations, foundations, policymakers and the media.

I am currently the Finnish Focal Point of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs an continue with pleasure the membership of the ALF. I am also the Chairman of FOKUS organisation which also belongs to the ALF fellowship!

The UN Association of Finland has over 60 member organisations and some individual members. The office is situated in Helsinki with four permanent employees and some interns, project workers and usually a person in civil alternative service as well. The everyday activities of the association are guided by an executive committee with representatives from member organisations. UNA annual budget is 750 000 euro/year including core and project funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We work in close cooperation with many NGO's including UNICEF and UN Women national organisation.

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