Provision of humanitarian assistance to conflict-affected population and IDPs through local partnerships in Ukraine The project reinforces community resilience and increase access to humanitarian assistance by strengthening capacities of local actors actively working in Donetska, Zaporizka, Kharkivska, Dnipropetrovska, and Lvivska oblasts to scale up their efforts in providing most urgent needs to conflict-affected population through sub-award partnership agreement and technical training.  
Through PIN’s established partnership with 121 NGOs since 2021, and after conflict escalation through PIN SOS Ukraine public collection, PIN has selected partners in the areas of implementation (NGOs, CSOs, OPDs and Volunteer Associations) to provide Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), WASH, and Shelter/NFI assistance to conflict-affected communities hosting high concentration of IDPs in the West and active pre-frontal areas in the East. 
As localization has been at the heart of the Humanitarian Response Strategy of PIN, within the last decade, PIN has established a robust partnership portfolio, working collaboratively with National NGOs and CSOs across Ukraine and has demonstrated  organizational capacity to achieve its strategic goal of enhancing participatory and transparent local decision-making processes through increased engagement of local authorities, CSOs and communities in the formulation and implementation of public programs, including local development plans. Leveraging these partnerships, PIN has expanded its impact to reach more than 3.8 million individuals across Ukraine, with funding from Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), DG NEAR, PIN SOS Public Collection and UNOCHA. This project would enable PIN to continue the implementation of its strategy and expand its local partnership base to include newly identified local actors since the February escalation working in the East and West of Ukraine. Through this project, PIN will provide micro-grants to at least 40  (32  have been pre-identified) local organizations and volunteer groups with whom it has established partnerships, to provide Food kits, Shelter/NFIs and Hygiene kits to hard-to-reach communities and newly accessible areas where selected based on the duration of conflict, increasing needs in newly liberated areas and upcoming winter. The partners accepted for this project are selected based on their activities in the identified locations, their commitment to the implementation of the project and their access to the most at-risk population in the respective Oblasts. For the capacity-building component of this project, PIN has conducted an organizational capacity assessment with the local actors, including volunteer groups, women-led organizations, and CSOs. Based on available results, PIN will prepare a cluster-based training and mentorship program including topics most represented in the results of the organizational assessment humanitarian standards, Inclusive programming, Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), protection mainstreaming and the humanitarian principles.
The project will support a total of 151.126 beneficiaries (86.986 unique beneficiaries) including elderly women and men, single female headed-households, women and men with other cumulative vulnerabilities. Registration of beneficiaries will be done by partners following the UN clusters’ vulnerability criteria. The potential risks include: volatile security situation in the target areas, accessibility of some locations, registration issues and ability to provide assistance in areas newly occupied by Russian forces. Mitigation measures include: safety and security training for all field staff, following security and travel SOPs, maintaining good relationship with relevant government authorities, working with other INGOs and local CSOs on access issues, sharing information and joining forces where possible and relevant.