Agreement on the organisation of Sámi psychosocial support in connection with the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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The Prime Minister's Office has signed an agreement with the Lapland Welfare Region (Agreement concerning the organisation of psychosocial support for the Sámi in connection with the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission) (VN/4862/2022).The Government established the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 28 October 2021, together with the Sámi Parliaments and the Skolt Village Meeting. In accordance with Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's Government Programme, the work of the Commission was continued until the end of 2025. The Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission submitted its final report to the Commission's settlors on 4 December 2025. The Commission's mandate (https://sdtsk.fi/mandate/) defined the objectives and tasks of the Commission's work. The Commission consisted of five members, two of whom were elected on the proposal of the Government, two on the proposal of the Sámi Parliament and one on the proposal of the Skolt Village Assembly. The Commission acted autonomously and independently. The purpose of the Truth and Reconciliation Process was to identify and assess historical and current discrimination, including state merger policies, and violations of rights, and to find out how these affect the Sami people and their community in the current situation. The purpose of the process was also to propose how to promote contact between the Sámi and the Finnish state as well as among the Sámi. The aim of the Truth and Reconciliation process was to raise awareness of the Sámi as an indigenous people of Finland. The aim of the Commission's work was to collect the Sámi people's experiences of the actions of the Finnish state and various authorities and what kind of impacts and consequences they have had and still have on the Sámi as an indigenous people and its members as individuals, and to make this information visible. Psychosocial support has been an integral part of the work of the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It is important that psychosocial support in Sámi languages and in a culturally appropriate manner has been available throughout the Commission's work. In accordance with the agreement, the agreement will remain in force until 31 December 2026. In a message sent to the Prime Minister's Office on 2 June 2025, the Regional Government of the Lapland Welfare Region proposed that the unused funding of the Sámi National Psychosocial Support Service Unit Uvja be carried over to 2026. The Lapland Welfare Area is ready to continue to provide Uvja's services with transfer appropriations to the extent allowed by the funding in 2026. The agreement has been extended until 30 June 2026. The remaining funding for the contract in 2026 amounts to a total of EUR 349 839. The other terms of the agreement will not be changed and Uvja's service will be provided with unused funding, which has been carried over to 2026 as well as new amending budget funding. Under Paragraph 40(2)(2) of the Law on public procurement, for technical reasons or reasons connected with the protection of exclusive rights, only a particular supplier may carry out the procurement. An additional condition is that there are no reasonable alternatives or substitutes and that the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the terms of the contract.

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FI Suomi/Finland
Any country

75200000 - Provision of services to the community

85121270 - Psychiatrist or psychologist services

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600,000.00 EUR

Official name: Lapin hyvinvointialue
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Town: Rovaniemi
Postal code: 96400
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