In June 2015 Kepa, on behalf of its member organizations, launched a campaign against the steep cuts in development cooperation funding planned by the Finnish Government. A petition site collecting signatures was created, and especially the social media was utilized to raise people’s awareness.

In only three months we were able to gather 41 271 signatures, which were handed to the development minister Lenita Toivakka in the Demonstration for Development Cooperation on September 8th in Helsinki.