Improving the living conditions of vulnerable people in the damaged parts of Kyiv and Mykolaiv regions through improved sustainable access to safe water. This project is following the main strategy of Caritas Ukraine as part of its response to humanitarian crisis in the country. Due to full scale invasion by Russian military forces the initial project activities were suspended and later resumed with updated locations of its implementations. Main expected outcome of this project is to provide sustainable supply of water to the vulnerable locals in the Kyiv and Mykolaiv regions.  

Caritas Ukraine is seeing $ 390,000 for replace and modernize 10,000 m of the central water supply system in the Kyiv and Mykolaiv regions.  

The project provides implementation HRP2021
Strategic goal 3: Ensure implementation of a humanitarian exit strategy in Government-controlled areas from 2021-2023.
The project is being carried out in cooperation with local administrations and utilities, involved in the project from the planning stage,  implementation to the intervention impact assessment.
The technical part of the project is aimed at repairing the parts of the centralized water supply system, which has been destroyed by military atrocities. 
The new water supply system is designed to improve the quality of water in the locations to the level of "safe water".
Caritas Ukraine has been operating in the WASH sector since 2014, organizing the distribution of drinking water in the combat zone of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In 2017 the CU humanitarian response strategy in the WASH sector was revised and the organization focused on finding solutions that could deliver sustainable results and be complementary to community-based able projects. Since 2018, Caritas Ukraine has been successfully implementing this strategy in cooperation with local Caritas organizations.
The intervention is based on needs assessment by local authorities in the regions and information by ministry of regional development.  

In 2021, we see an increase in the number of people in need of support in the WASH sector to 3.1 million people. Among them 54% are women, 14% are children, 41% are elderly and 13% are people with disabilities. In addition to the fact that the population continues to need bottled drinking water, the centralized water supply system needs urgent repairs and modernization. According to the WASH cluster, of the 5.4 million people living in the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, 1.73 million need water. 451,000 children in kindergartens, homes and schools also need help.
When preparing the project proposal, a risks analysis was carried out.
Caritas Ukraine implements the feedback collection mechanism to ensure accountability at all times, safeguarding and protection principles, advocacy appeals using specially trained local person and proper communication methods. Monitoring as part of Caritas MEAL system will consist of baseline (needs assessment, already conducted) and endline survey (to be conducted by MampE staff before the end of the project). Further learning process will allow improving both operational and programming approach of Caritas. The key indicators that Caritas used for evaluation of humanitarian intervention are based on criteria: effectiveness, sufficiency, relevance and accessibility.