SHALIN Suomi is a Not-for Profit Organisation based in Finland. SHALIN seeks to promote sustainable development through networking, capacity building and knowledge management.

We work with local groups or communities to establish platforms through which communities get better equipped to deal with externally driven processes such as globalisation, climate change and the general politics.

SHALIN ry has a keen interest in global development trends and specifically the interpretation of development concepts by vulnerable communities.

We also focus of highlighting the conceptual differences in the understanding of development and how different development paradigms contribute to the strengthening or weakening the counterpart cultures or societies.

On climate change, our target is to get the global civil society to enter into a conscious climate change mitigation contract with local communities for direct action.

Participatory 3 D Mapping, Mukogodo Forest, Kenya

SHALIN Board 2009/2010

Tiina Kukkamaa (C)

Slade Syakango (VC)

Kaisa Seppanen -Secretary to the Board

Heikki Korhonen (Consultant Finance)

Sari Leinonen

Peter Kuria (Director, Finance)

Leena Akatama

Eva Kagiri

Advisors to the Board 2009/2010

1. Tomi Toivio

GIS Specialist

2. Miia Toikka

Kepa Finland- Advocacy Officer

3. Sonja Vermuelen,

International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED), UK

4. Nigel Crawhall

Director, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC), South Africa

Auditors: Audit Polar Oy

Risto Ekholm (KHT)