Multi-sectoral emergency support to IDPs and conflict affected individuals in Ukraine DRC will initiate a quick response to the current crisis caused by the escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which erupted in late February 2022. The main objective is to assist those vulnerable individuals who had to relocate from their places of residence, lost income, and shelter and those exposed to protection risks. DRC will prioritize western and central parts of Ukraine with the highest influx of IDPs, together with the eastern oblasts, where DRC was operational before the escalation. Online support modalities will enable DRC to reach a high number of beneficiaries across the country. A precise selection of the project locations will be done in close coordination with other UHF partner agencies and cluster partners.

More specifically, over the course of six months DRC will:

1) Provide emergency multi-purpose cash assistance to 1,500 individuals. This component will target vulnerable IDPs, and those conflict-affected individuals who have lost their income and assets because of the conflict escalation. Ukraine is a cash-based economy with adaptive and responsive markets, and therefore, DRC believes that multi-purpose cash assistance is the best modality to meet the emergency needs of affected individuals. In addition, multi-purpose will ensure accountability towards beneficiaries and the possibility to define their needs and cover basic necessities. 

2) Assist 500 IDP households (approx. 1,500 individuals) to meet their basic accommodation/shelter needs via cash to support the rent. This component will be used as a complementary tool for a multi-purpose cash assistance programme to cover accommodation needs for displaced households. High rental and accommodation costs expose vulnerable IDP families to negative coping strategies and this intervention aims to prevent them. 

3) Provide Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) to respond to specific protection risks of at least 250 vulnerable individuals. IPAs will be used as a last resort one-off action aimed at reducing exposure to or limiting the effects of protection risks, via the provision of material or cash assistance to the identified individual cases for addressing their special needs. Examples of IPA include covering the costs for emergency shelter assistance to mitigate imminent eviction, transportation costs to access lifesaving medical assistance or other responsive/remedial services, costs associated with legal proceedings that cannot be funded by legal service providers including documentation and/or accessing representation services, medicines, and medical equipment, etc. 

4) Improve living conditions in at least 15 IDP collective centers/temporary shelter facilities, that will benefit up to 1,000 individuals. Within this component, DRC will aim to provide the necessary furniture and equipment as well as help in small repairs, such as installation of showers, improving toilet facilities, insulation, windows, etc. DRC will select the IDP collective centers/temporary shelters in central and western oblasts of Ukraine, with high IDP influx numbers in close collaboration with relevant government authorities, local NGOs and activist groups. 

5) Assist at least 100 households (approx. 300 individuals) with damaged apartments/houses to do emergency repairs and make their residences livable. Within this component, DRC will target those vulnerable households, who experienced minor or medium-scale housing property damages, that can be restored with relatively small efforts and with using local resources. This scheme will enable to quickly transform damaged housing property in livable space, thus enabling IDP households to return to their original places of residence. This component will be launched after completion of the active phase of the conflict escalation and will target those oblasts of Ukraine, that suffered the most damages.