Ukraine Emergency Response -DFC- 2022 SUMMARY
Aid organizations are very concerned about the consequences of the large-scale hostilities in Ukraine. Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, and of the end of June 2022, UNHCR estimates there are over 5.4 million refugees present across Europe. Inside Ukraine, many people who are trapped are unable to meet their basic needs including for food, water and medicines. 
11 Dutch collaborating aid organizations join forces under Giro555 to launch a rapid response program to Ukraine crisis. 
This funding will be used to provide protection, MHPSS, Food and Non-food assistance to children, adolescent and caregiver IDPs and host communities in Ukraine, giving a priority on delivering life-saving assistance to meet the basic and protection needs of IDPs, and host communities in Ukraine. Since the upset of conflict in Ukraine in Feb 2022, the war has caused civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcing people to flee their homes seeking safety, protection and assistance. Within seven weeks, more than 5 million refugees have fled into countries neighboring Ukraine and beyond. International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that 6.3 million people were internally displaced, while nearly 6 million people sought refuge in European countries, according to the UN Refugee Agency. Therefore, humanitarian partners are on high alert for increased protection risks including trafficking, gender-based violence and exploitation.
Inside Ukraine, many people who are trapped are unable to meet their basic needs including for food, water and medicines. The delivery of life-saving aid remains challenging, with a lack of safe humanitarian access in areas where intense fighting is ongoing. While The humanitarian situation across the country—particularly in the eastern Ukraine- is still increasingly alarming and rapidly deteriorating, OCHA has reported over 15.7 million people in need million people need safe access to multisectoral services in Ukraine. Plan International Netherlands (NLNO) in partnership with Defence for Children Netherlands (DFC) and through their national partner All-Ukrainian Foundation for Children’s Rights (AUFCR)
have begun a humanitarian response project in Ukraine funded by SHO/GIRO555. The project is implemented by the national NGO partner AUFCR. It aims to increase access to protection for children in war-affected regions (particularly Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk,  Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Odesa), and hosting territories (Chernivtsi, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpatska, Poltavska), with special attention for evacuated children from war-affected territories, children in need (children in bomb shelters, child hospitals, maternity hospitals, orphanages, institutions), children with disabilities, and children from vulnerable families (low-mobile, single-parent and refugee/IDP families). this will be achieved through:
-Provision of protection, GBV, and child protection prevention and response services.  
-Provision for Food assistance for children living in residential care institutions.
-Provision for Non-food assistance to evacuated children (boys and girls under 18) in orphanages, including sanitation and hygienic supplies. Since the war began on 24 February, humanitarian partners have rapidly increased the scale and scope of operations, in Ukraine . In Ukraine, humanitarian practitioners exposing to serious protection risks due to the lack of unimpeded humanitarian access in non-Government-controlled areas results in delays in determining and meeting food assistance and livelihood support needs.
OCHA has repeatedly reports a huge gaps in many humanitarian response sectors.  
According to WHO, access to health care is severely affected by security conditions, restricted mobility, broken supply chains and mass displacement. Reaching the hardest-hit areas in the east, where health systems have been severely disrupted, remains challenging. Fuel shortages and access problems continue to pose challenges to the delivery and distribution of medical supplies. On protection side, millions of people remain in need of protection assistance, this include the need for provision of assistive devices for people with disabilities and older people. Lack of or restricted access to certain areas in the east of the country continues to impede the delivery of protection services to internally displaced people and other affected populations. Project focuses on providing immediate assistance and protection to children (boys and girls), and caregivers. There is particular attention for most vulnerable, such as children with disabilities, disabled parents with children, IDPs, UASCs, single mothers with young children, children in hospitals and mothers/children in maternity hospitals . Defence for Children with their national partner in Ukraine will adhere to concrete action plan to enhance access to protection for children in Ukraine war-affected regions, with special attention for evacuated children from war-affected territories, children in need (children in bomb shelters, child hospitals, maternity hospitals, orphanages, institutions), children with disabilities, and children from vulnerable families (low-mobile, single-parent and refugee/IDP families). Partner organizations will reach minimum 11,000 children with multi-sectoral humanitarian response activities, this include: 
- 10.000 IDPs, survival and at risk people accessing protection services in Ukraine:
Partner organization will identify most vulnerable survivals and/or at risk people. 
Providing protection and referral services through 21 community centers mutli-service units in 21 local communities in 7 oblasts in Western Ukraine (hosting territories). 
Establishing 28 mobile teams in 28 locations in 7 oblasts in North, East and South Ukraine (war-affected territories). 
Providing psychosocial support for 1.000 evacuated children (boys and girls under 18) from low mobile, single-parent and refugee/IDP families, evacuated from war-affected regions to hosting territories in Western Ukraine. 
Providing psychosocial support for 1.600 children (boys and girls under 18) from vulnerable families, including GBV survivors, in war-affected regions. 
Providing MHPSS,  need-based first medical assistance, and/or referral to specialized medical service provider for at least 75 evacuated children with disability (boys and girls under 18) in residential care in Chemivtsi.
Providing immediate assistance for 1.000 people (including men, women, boys, girls) from high-risk territories to be transported to safe receiving centers in Western Ukraine or bordering countries, taking into account the specific needs of girls and women
Providing training for at least 4.750 (male, female) volunteers -part of 612 grassroots networks- on (protection monitoring, PFA, identifying protection risks, referral, among others).
To increase awareness, information sharing, and advocacy on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, partners to the project will conduct monthly/bi-monthly hybird meetings, an approxmate of 20 total meetings; and produce 2 advocacy reports that support: a)Monitoring and supporting efforts to collect evidence on missing/lost children in Ukraine and Europe. b) Monitoring and supporting of efforts to collect evidence on different forms of children’s rights violations, abuse, neglect and exploitation. 

- 550 IDPs, survival and at risk children received their basic food needs in Ukraine:
At least 200 evacuated children (50% boys, 50% girls under 18) in 4 orphanages in (in Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankiysk, Chernihiv and Nizhyn) will be receiving immediate needs-based food items.
At least 200 children ( (50% boys, 50% girls aged 0 – 12 months) in child hospitals and maternity hospitals in war-affected regions will be receiving acute baby food items.

- 550 IDPs, survival and at risk children received immediate non-food supplies in Ukraine
Provision of immediate needs-based non-food items to 200 evacuated children (boys and girls under 18) in orphanages, including sanitation and hygienic supplies.
Provision of acute non-food items to 200 children (boys and girls aged 0-12months) in child hospitals and maternity hospitals in war affected regions.