Shelter and WASH Support for Rural, Accessible Areas Near the Front Line in Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Kherson Oblasts ltpgt
lt/pgtltdiv style="margin: 0px padding: 0px user-select: text -webkit-user-drag: none -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent overflow: visible cursor: text clear: both position: relative direction: ltr" class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW66860644 BCX0"gtltp style="margin: 0px padding: 0px user-select: text -webkit-user-drag: none -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent overflow-wrap: break-word vertical-align: baseline font-kerning: none" class="Paragraph SCXW66860644 BCX0"gtAs the war in Ukraine enters its second year, communities in Eastern and Southern regions continue to suffer the harshest consequences due to their proximity to the frontline and relatively limited access to humanitarian assistance. The 2023 Ukraine Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) identified critically unmet shelter and WASH needs in the East and South of Ukraine. The Ukrainian economy is struggling as security concerns and damages to infrastructure and industry devastate livelihood opportunities. Rising inflation has likewise decreased household purchasing power, resulting in challenges to access for essential goods such as hygiene items, especially for women-headed households, older people and people with disabilities who are disproportionately reliant on social benefits. Strategic attacks on civilian infrastructure have left millions of Ukrainians, especially in frontline areas, without access to clean water, electricity, and other essential services. Russian attacks have also damaged or destroyed millions of residential units, primarily in the East and South of Ukraine.ltbrgtTo address these priority issues, CORE will implement a multi-sectoral humanitarian response in rural, accessible areas near the frontline in the Eastern and Southern Ukraine. CORE will collaborate with local government and civil society to identify vulnerable households that have remained or are returning in Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv that have complex unmet basic needs and would benefit from multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance. CORE will support these households through a series of interventions that includes light and medium home repairs (Shelter/NFI), water supply system rehabilitation (WASH), and provision of hygiene kits (WASH) with the objective of improving living conditions in the short-to-midterm for participating households.ltbrgtltbrgtShelter/NFI: CORE will target 750 highly vulnerable households (1,950 individuals) in liberated rural areas in Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv Oblasts whose homes have sustained damages to receive light and medium repairs (such as window and door replacement, light roof repairs, minor repairs of nonstructural walls, etc.) to increase safety and restore habitability. CORE will directly implement this component of the proposed project, issuing a tender process for local contractors (thus supporting local economies) to conduct repairs with national staff overseeing assessment activities, inspecting the quality of work completed, and conducting monitoring activities.ltbrgtltbrgtWASH: To facilitate improved access to clean water, CORE will engage a local partner (Southern Development Strategy) to support the rehabilitation of two damaged water supply systems (Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts) and repair two water towers in (Mykolaiv Oblast). With WASH water supply repair activities, CORE aims to indirectly support 17,000 individuals who, as a result of interventions, will regain access to a centralized clean water supply. ltbrgtltbrgtAdditionally, CORE will engage another local partner (NUkraine) to distribute 2,000 hygiene kits, covering WASH, needs for 5,200 highly vulnerable individuals with restricted access to limited purchasing power and market access in liberated rural areas near the frontline in Kherson and Mykolaiv Oblasts. Households selected for light and medium repairs will be eligible for hygiene kit distribution and CORE intends to overlap the communities receiving shelter repairs and hygiene kits with those selected for water supply system rehabilitation to maximize the multi-sectoral nature of its response. ltbrgtlt/pgtlt/divgtltp class="sceditor-nlf"gtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtlt/pgt