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Immediate multi-sectoral, live-saving assistance for the population affected by the military operation in Ukraine The proposed project will provide immediate, life-saving assistance to conflict-affected communities and IDPs, particularly elderly, people with disabilities, women-led households, children in Donetska, Luhanska, Kharkivska, Zaporizka and Dnipropetrovska Oblast. Project partners People in Need (PIN), Helpage International (HAI) and Right to Protection (R2P) will join efforts to ensure access to food, drinking water, essential hygiene items and unconditional cash transfers for the most vulnerable in order to meet their basic needs and give them at least some level of self-sufficiency given the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the target areas. The intervention modalities were selected based on the needs identified through internal assessments and needs overviews provided by different UN agencies. Cash transfers will be provided in areas with existing functioning markets, whereas in kind will be prioritized elsewhere.  

The project will support over 34.000 unique beneficiaries. Following the FSL and WASH cluster recommendations, the assistance will be provided by a combination of in-kind (food, water, hygiene) and unconditional cash assistance. 15700 will benefit from in-kind food assistance, 4000 from unconditional cash transfers (UCT), 20545 from hygiene kits and 16000 from bottle water distribution. To the extent possible food and hygiene items will be purchased from local vendors, thus supporting local markets. Hygiene kits distributed will be tailored to address the particular needs of different groups, e.g. elderly and people with disabilities. Mobile units will be dispatched to reach those that require home-based care/delivery. Water distribution will be provided via bottles. For cash distribution, existing trusted providers will be utilized. The project partners have an extensive track record of providing assistance to communities across the target Oblasts, complemented by well-established links with local assistants and initiatives as well as rigorous risk management protocols and experienced staff. For this reason, they are uniquely positioned to deliver the immediate humanitarian assistance even in the midst of the ongoing military aggression. 

The project will contribute to strengthened response analysis and coordination through enhancing information management to inform response planning and implementation. All activities will respect key humanitarian principles will adhere to the maximum possible extent to the Sphere standards and contextualized national standards established by the respective clusters and will be closely coordinated with the re-emerging coordination structures with relevant humanitarian stakeholders.
Pathway to Localization of Child-Protection within the Ukrainian Humanitarian Response/ Шлях до локалізації захисту дітей в контексті гуманітарного реагування в Україні Since the onset of the escalation of war in February 2022 local and national actors have taken a leading role in the response both as first as well as main responders. While primary activities are focusing on the provision of assistance to those most vulnerable, especially children and families, it also addresses identified needs within the Ukrainian civil society, such as mental health options. Furthermore, the recognition of and support to local and national actors within coordination, direct assistance, and policy development is necessary for humanitarian action to be more accountable, efficient, and sustainable. Through a partnership approach this project aims to promote localizised action primarily within the Child Protection Area. The pre-identified partners within this project have a history of mutual support and cooperation. This project is built on 5 main pillars: 
Direct assistance 
Partnership and Cooperation 
Capacity  

Resources  
Coordination and Inclusion 

The project focuses on facilitating a partnership promoting effective and efficient principled humanitarian action and creating an enabling environment for localisation short, medium, and long-term. 

The project support aims not only to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the humanitarian action, but in line with the new strategic objective of Grand Bargain focus on “better humanitarian outcomes for affected populations” and promote inclusiveness through proven as well as innovative activities.
Scaling Up Critical Seasonal Support to Agriculture Producers Ukraine Since the most recent outbreak of war in February 2022, 15.7 million people in Ukraine have been identified as needing urgent humanitarian assistance. Particularly in the agricultural sector, rural families have become more vulnerable, with many being forced to adopt negative coping strategies to cover their basic food security and nutrition needs.

While the war has resulted in widespread displacement, with over 5 million people having fled Ukraine for safety and nearly 8 million being internally displaced as of 18 April, nearly 1 million Ukrainian refugees have chosen to return to the country. This population consists of many farmers that have been gradually returning to their land in areas where security and access have allowed.

These returnees, along with those vulnerable smallholder producers who have remained on their lands, are critical actors in maintaining rural food systems. To prevent the further deterioration of food security in rural communities and safeguard access to food in urban and peri-urban areas, FAO is requesting USD 2.4 million over the next seven months to urgently assist up to 18 200 of the most vulnerable rural women, men and children (7 000 households) including IDPs and returnees. 

With its established presence in Ukraine and ongoing projects, FAO intends to scale up already existing operations in line with the Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster Objective 2: Protect and Restore Agricultural and Non-agricultural Livelihoods.

FAO’s ongoing provision of inputs, within its Rapid Response Plan (RRP – March-December 2022) including agricultural inputs, and animal feed and health inputs will enable smallholder producers to cultivate winter crops planted in 2021 and meet the planting deadline for cereal crops in 2022. The provision of livestock and associated inputs under the RRP is supporting crisis-affected livestock holders with maintenance and survival of existing livestock, or replacement of stock lost to the war.
Respond and meet the most urgent food needs in the conflict-affected area of Donetsk NGCA On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a broad military offensive targeting Ukraine. The armed violence escalated in at least eight oblasts (regions), including Kyiv oblast and the capital city of Kyiv, as well as in the eastern oblasts Donetska and Luhanska which were already affected by conflict. According to the Flash Appeal, as of 27 February 2022, at least 368,000 people have already crossed into neighbouring countries. Many more continue moving towards Ukraine’s borders.

With currently resumed hostilities in Donetsk NGCA, followed by daily movement of line of contact outwards from previously existing one, leaving behind massive destruction of social and living infrastructure, as well as keeping populations with no access to basic needs, such as food and water. Ongoing shelling and security breaches led to drastic lack of resources and possibilities to procure basic food commodities and water, aggravating already insecure position of the most vulnerable categories of affected populations, including people with disabilities, women-headed households, families with many children, elderly and forced migrants, whose houses were either damaged or destroyed in course of hostilities.

To ensure food security for those listed above, affected by the ongoing conflict, IOM intends to provide food parcels to approximately 3500 households 100 USD per kit for a three-month period, prioritizing urging needs of the population.
In order to ensure rapid response, IOM will proceed with local procurement performed though the local NGOs authorized to implement in the area, thus minimizing the risk of impeded crossing of LoC and securing soonest delivery.
Bridging divides: Conflict sensitivity capacity building of affected communities Community-based protection for conflict-affected people with mobile teams of psychologists and facilitators (mediator or dialog facilitator) through inclusive dialogue process. Conflict mitigation work includes provision of different events - individual counseling about conflicts, educational workshops, family, group mediations and dialogues. The mobile teams also conduct public events for intergroup interactions and advocacy for conflict affected groups. Psychological stabilization – is basic to prevent further development of trauma. Psychosocial support allows to process actual emotions and war experience to move further, so PSS helps to strengthen social cohesion process and prevent conflicts too. Finding common, inclusive community-based solutions can help communities find resources within, better identify what kind of humanitarian assistance population need, and ensure better distribution.

Localization focus is to support local Caritas organizations, that are independent and autonomic. But also local Caritas organizations will involve other community-based initiatives (self-organized groups, initiative groups, especially IDPs will be supported) to events and provide grants for capacity building. Locations: Odesa region, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk (Kamianske), Khmelnytskyi, Kolomyia, Lviv (Zhovkva).

CUA is committed to upholding the dignity of the people it serves and to assuring their protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA). CUA’s protection mainstreaming strategy will include promoting its feedback and response mechanisms while ensuring that staff have up-to-date information on referral pathways for support such as psychosocial services, GBV services, child protection services, and support for people with disabilities and older people.
Providing multisectoral assistance in Ternopil and Zaporizhzhia oblasts to 29800 people. Posmishka UA is requesting   for several activities:

1) Centralized water / wastewater system  repairs and OampM support in Kopychyntsi  (Ternopilska region)
2) Hygiene kit distributions in Zaporizhzhia
3) Refurbishment of CCs in winterization works for heating infrastructure repair: electrical wiring repair for 6 collective centers for IDPs in Zaporizhzhia
4) NFI winter clothing distribution in Zaporizhzhia
5) 6 Educational hubs for Zaporizka and Ternopilska regions

Since the beginning of war Posmishka's Humanitarian Aid Centre registered and provided both food and NFI kits registered more than 200.000 IDPs. The  Humanitarian Aid Centre  for IDPs is still working and is a center of primary needs help for them.  Zaporizhzhia is in a unique situation, as a major city both facing regular attacks and as a transit point and destination for internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing the east, particularly Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Since March 2022, Posmishka UA has been extremely active in the Kopychyntsi region of Ternopil oblast, collaborating closely with authorities to meet the needs of IDP communities. 

Drawing on our exception presence, visibility and connections in both regions, we are proposing this project, which speaks directly to the needs of the communities we work with on a daily basis. Firstly, in Kopychyntsi, the local authorities and communities have noted that the water and sewerage system is no longer fit for purpose, strained by the increased demand of IDP populations which have moved to the region with our support, the municipality can make real strides towards improving not only access but also the quality and sustainability of the water and sewerage systems locally. In the context of Zaporizhzhia, IDP communities desperately require hygiene support, and so we plan to distribute kits. With regards to winterization in both locations, we will work with collective centres to deliver and distribute heating devices, as well as warm clothing and thermals, to IDP populations. Finally, with regards to education, we will work through six collective centres to establish classroom spaces - or education hubs - where IDP children can access education, with additional activities facilitated by trained teaching staff.

It is anticipated that the overall reach of this project will be at least 29800, taking into account just direct beneficiaries, with further benefits to be enjoyed by families of the primary beneficiary, as well as solidarity and support to local authorities and those running collective centres. This represents incredible value for money, with a cost of just $33 per primary beneficiary, and a much lower cost per person once indirect beneficiaries are taken into account.
Provision of lifesaving GBV services for women and girls affected by the ongoing emergency in Ukraine The project will provide lifesaving GBV prevention, mitigation and response services to women and girls, primarily through psychosocial support (PSS), awareness raising, and referrals provided by trained staff, through a network of 10 mobile outreach teams and 7 Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS). GBV outreach efforts will be paired with the distribution of 8,000 dignity kits (DK), which will provide menstrual and other hygiene items explicitly tailored towards the local needs of women and girls in Ukraine. DK distributions will also be used as a lifesaving entry point to GBV services and referrals. While CVA will not be used in this project, UNFPA 's Implementing Partners will make relevant referrals to CVA actors, based on available service mapping. UNFPA is the UN’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency, and in humanitarian settings holds the global-lead mandate to combat GBV and to mitigate its consequences, while also being mandated to meet the reproductive and maternal health needs of persons in emergency situations, ensuring that women can deliver safely in often difficult conditions. The current conflict in Ukraine has caused the largest and fastest growing displacement crisis worldwide. There are now more than 5.2 million refugees (90 per cent of them women and children) and at least 7.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs). Due to the fluid and rapidly changing security situation in Ukraine, which directly impacts IDP movements and spontaneous returns, the need for GBV emergency services has continued to exponentially increase. Both static and mobile GBV service delivery modalities are key to ensure an effective integrated emergency response, to those in most need, throughout the territory of Ukraine including in: hard-to-reach areas locations with heavily impacted infrastructure and densely concentrated IDP areas. GBV prevention, mitigation, and response services are lifesaving, and must be prioritized in the Ukraine response. 

To ensure the continuation of existing GBV services, in addition to scaling timely and quality lifesaving response services to meet the immediate needs of women and girls, including in hard-to-reach areas, UNFPA will implement an approach of mobile (using rented vehicles) and static GBV emergency response services. This will enable effective outreach to those in most need, including persons with disabilities (PWD) and older persons. 

The targeted locations in this project reflect gaps in current GBV service provision based on UNFPA mapping, which includes municipal-level service mapping. Actual number of GBV survivors and those at risk remains anecdotal at this stage of the emergency.
Creating reception evacuation with multi-sectoral services The project plans to create a single coordination center for the evacuation of IDPs with multifunctional services, which is strategically aimed at effective administration and coordination of humanitarian aid for people affected by the conflict in Ukraine (IDPs, especially an inclusive group of people), as well as building the capacity of local humanitarian organizations and volunteer groups/initiatives

Strategic goal: To improve the efficiency of the processes of involvement, coordination and administration of the provision (distribution) of multi-sectoral humanitarian aid to the needy, by increasing the capacity of humanitarian activities of small local NGOs, volunteer groups and initiatives, establishing their high-quality interaction with local authorities and finding joint effective solutions in order to improve conditions for IDPs.

The focus of the target audience of the project is not large local NGOs, volunteer groups and initiatives that carry out their humanitarian activities in areas with a high concentration of IDPs, expect evacuation in the near future, and hard-to-reach areas of the rear regions.
The implementation of the project is envisaged in the rear regions of Ukraine (priority Rivne and Volyn regions), where there is not a high concentration of activities of international humanitarian funds or their programs, at the same time - a high concentration of IDPs.
The main tasks planned in the project: create of reception with multifunctional services and capacity building of local humanitarian workers (NGOs, communities, CCM administration), bringing them into line with international humanitarian rules and standards creating a hub for humanitarian workers and increasing their capacity creation of a mobile team to support the management of collective centers and the implementation of a system of coordination of the activities of CSs in the Rivne region

It is expected that as a result of the project, the level of the ability to carry out activities in the humanitarian sphere will be increased for at least 70 organizations, volunteer and initiative groups (making up at least 300 unique participants, coverage of services for at least 5,000 IDPs) in the rear regions of Ukraine (in priority, Rivne and Volyn region), 80 CCM administrations (at least 120 employees of CCM administrations), rear regions of Ukraine (priority Rivne and Volyn regions), involved in the implementation of the project at least 1 NGO, (the founder of which is VPO)
Emergency WASH response to support conflict-affected people in Kharkivska, Zaporizka and Sumska oblasts The action aims to respond to immediate needs in WASH for the conflict-affected population in Sumya,  Kharkivska and Zaporizka oblasts. Over a period of 8 months, the action will be implemented by Action contre la Faim France (ACF) in coordination with civil society organizations (CSOs) and local authorities. In total, the project will target 26500  beneficiaries (9125 women, 4125 men, 5625  boys and 7625 girls) who will benefit from a package of actions in WASH, prioritizing the most vulnerable people and aligned with the priorities identified by the WASH cluster and local authorities. This project is integrated into a larger multisectoral emergency response set up by ACF to respond to the most critical needs of conflict-affected people in different areas in Ukraine. Through this specific project, ACF expects to strengthen access to water and hygiene services for the affected populations. The activities will ensure a rapid coverage of WASH needs adapted to each oblast, eg taking into account the needs of IDPs who have fled from conflict areas.

The need to implement this project is justified by :
a) ACF scoping mission in March 2022 and WASH needs assessment in April 2022 
b) Secondary data: eg the influx of gt30,000 IDPs from Mariupol, Berdiansk, Melitopol and surrounding settlements to Zaporizhzhia between 05th and 16th of April (InterAgency situation overview, April 20). 
According to 2 recent Rapid Needs Assessments conducted by REACH in northern and central oblasts, the provision of hygiene products (including menstrual hygiene) is a primary concern in terms of WASH needs among IDPs in most (78%) of the assessed settlements.
Emergency lifesaving assistance to populations affected by conflict in Eastern and Southern Ukraine Following UHF third allocation strategy, SI will provide a multi-sectoral response to conflict-affected persons in Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts. SI will continue to rely on and integrate to the solidarity mechanisms already effective in Ukraine in order not to develop a parallel system. Local associations, municipalities, and networks of volunteers will be supported to ensure a sustainability in the response as well as a scale up to cover additional needs.

In Eastern/Southern Ukraine, directly impacted by the conflict (Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk Oblast), SI will contribute to the provision of relief items and critical supplies to the people present both in Governmental Control Areas (GCAs) and Non-Governmental Control Areas (NGCAs).  The project will address acute basic needs notably through the distribution of NFI shelter and hygiene kits as well as water supply. In addition, SI will ensure improvements and repairs on water and waste water systems in collective shelters, bomb shelters and/or institutions (health centers, retirement homes, etc.) hosting most vulnerable persons as well as on treatment plants and networks. In collective and bomb shelters, shelter improvements will also be conducted to ensure minimum dignifying living conditions, privacy, and protection of the most vulnerable. 

Throughout the assessments conducted since February 2022, SI identified specific vulnerabilities of women, menstruated girls, infants, and elderlies, notably with regards to hygiene needs. Activities will be delivered accordingly. Regarding repairs/rehabilitation of infrastructures and facilities in collective centers and institutions, SI will always intend to ensure accessibility and protection to all, including people with disabilities and elderlies, in the respect of ‘do no harm’. 

Ukrainian context is extremely volatile and access constraints are high, mostly in areas targeted by fighting. SI reckons that the situation described in this proposal might change quickly and intends to keep flexibility in its activities and methodologies of implementation to ensure the ability to direct the assistance to the most in need. SI is monitoring the situation and needs in a very close way to ensure permanent adaption of its activities on the field.
Emergency Cash and Protection Assistance for conflict affected persons in Sumska Oblast and bordering hromadas This project will support 3437 people based in Sumska Oblast and bordering hromada to cover their essential needs and access MHPSS/protection services. This intervention will also provide specific assistance to let targeted vulnerable persons face winter related needs not covered through others mechanisms. The intervention supports displaced populations, returnees and vulnerable residents in rural areas whose access to humanitarian support is lower compared to urban areas. Approximately 80%   of direct beneficiaries will be returnees and vulnerable residents who could not flee during the occupation.
Beneficiaries will be targeted among the people residing in sub-standard homes or returnees with damaged houses to access winterization assistance while specific vulnerability criteria will be apply to MPCA and PSS activities.
Owing to the functionality of markets and preferences of the local population, the intervention will focus on cash transfers as a modality. In particular, the intervention will prioritize the needs of IDPs, vulnerable population and returnees  living in sub-standard homes. The intervention will also support the immediate psychosocial and protection needs of conflict-affected populations in locations where there are clear service gaps as evidenced by service mapping. We will focus on individuals suffering from isolation and a lack of access to MHPSS support.
Jeru consortium will implement all the  proposed activities in cooperation or through local partner (Light of Hope) and volunteers, aiming increasing or strengthening their capacities. The approach is in line with the localization strategy suggested by the clusters and adopted by JERU as integrated component of its country strategy.