Press release

The Board of Fida International has appointed Master of Theology Jyrki Palmi as the new Executive Director of the mission and development organisation, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year. He will assume the position on 1 September 2026, succeeding Harri Hakola, who will retire at the end of the year after leading the organisation for nearly 17 years.

The organisational change negotiations at Fida, a Finnish missions and development cooperation organisation, have concluded. As a result of the negotiations, 14 positions will be discontinued. Thanks to other cost-saving measures, the scale of staff reductions was significantly smaller than anticipated.

Fida initiates change negotiations affecting all employees in Finland and abroad.

Fida has begun distributing humanitarian aid in Myanmar. “Help is urgently needed,” says Regional Director Jukka Tasanen, who has previously lived in the country and is coordinating the relief efforts.

In early summer 2022, Fida’s Country Office in Tanzania received tip-offs from two local employees and one beneficiary regarding the possible misuse of funds in Fida’s development cooperation activities in Zanzibar. The suspicion was directed at one local employee of the Country Programme.