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• Initiative to support women’s business initiatives as Ukraine recovers from effects of pandemic

UKRAINE/HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

• Social hub in Novhorodske designed to unite community, be a place to set up public organizations, study the history of the village, and find ways to further develop it

Denmark has become the first contributor to the new Ukraine Community Recovery Fund (UCRF), a financial instrument launched by the UN in Ukraine in collaboration the Ministry for Restoration of Ukraine. The Fund supports community-level investments in reconstruction of housing, energy, social infrastructure, humanitarian demining, and support to livelihoods and local economic development. These interventions are combined with targeted capacity strengthening of local authorities for essential service provision and community mobilization.

We now know that more than 200,000 people lack access to water across the Donetska oblast in the country’s east. That is according to authorities and our humanitarian colleagues.  

The Vice-Prime Minister for the Restoration of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kubrakov, and the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, jointly chaired today the second meeting of the Steering Committee for Community Planning, Durable Solutions and Recovery of Ukraine. The Committee is a platform to strengthen coordination and complementarity between humanitarian and recovery efforts in Ukraine. It will ensure that communities devastated by Russia’s invasion have the right support to get back on their feet.