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Provision of MPCA for vulnerable IDPs in underserved communities of Chernivtsi Oblast (priority 1C) Throughout western Ukraine, communities are seeing large influxes of internally-displaced persons (IDPs). While 69% of IDPs are settling in rural areas (IOM), humanitarian assistance is not yet reaching these smaller communities. In rural areas, even a smaller absolute increase in IDP population is a large concentration in relative terms, especially when considering the capacity of recently decentralized local government units (LGUs) to respond.

Global Communities (GC) will leverage our existing connections to civil society organizations (CSOs) and LGUs to provide multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) to 2,330 IDPs in communal centers and communities in consolidated territorial communities (CCs) in Chernivtsi Oblast. We will start in Khotyn and Velykokuchurivska CCs, but will expand depending on needs and budget availability. We have existing connections with an additional eight CCs in Chernivtsi Oblast, a memorandum of understanding with the regional administration, and the ability to create connections with other communities. 

GC will use our network of CSOs to identify two partners – one in each community – to work with on MPCA enrollment, verification, and monitoring. They will be upon award to ensure that they are the best positioned organization to respond to the needs within the community at that time and contracted through consulting agreements.
Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance for IDPs in Poltava and Khmelnitsky Oblasts Through the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF), Caritas Ukraine (CUA) proposes providing multi-purpose cash (MPC) to 24,240 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in in Poltava and Khmelnitsky oblasts.

CUA’s approach is fully aligned with the Ukraine Cash Working Group (CWG) and the humanitarian community’s emergency rollout of MPC throughout the country. CUA will target the most vulnerable individuals in both the oblasts capitals and rural settlements: IDPs or conflict-affected populations who have specific protection needs (such as elderly persons, persons with disabilities, and persons with severe/chronic medical conditions), and who lack access to income or basic needs such as accommodation and food. In Poltava, Caritas will register people who seek assistance from their office and through mobile teams that travel to rural settlements. In Khmelnitsky, Caritas will register people in collective centers and other temporary accommodations through mobile teams. CUA will use the CWG developed beneficiary assessment tool, and a transfer value of 2,220 UAH per person per month for three months, transferred in one lump sum.

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. CUA will provide those who receive MPC with information about available services and refer as needed.
Complex support for families with children with disabilities affected by the war in Ukraine The proposed project aims at providing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable people affected by the war in Ukraine, directly or indirectly, and support them with essential goods and the provision of support services according to their needs. The target groups are families (including foster and kinship families and single parents) with children and youngsters with disabilities. Project activities will be implemented in the regions of Lviv, Vinnytsya and Kyiv Oblasts. 

The approach of support is complex: the families will receive humanitarian aid directly by the provision of essential goods such as warm clothes, blankets, pillows and materials to keep them warm during winter. Moreover, they will be provided with medicine/medical assistance and information about accessible support services in their communities. 
Furthermore, families and children with disabilities will be further supported by offering them inclusive daycare and psychological support. In order to strengthen the capacity of the centers that provide these services, these centers will receive equipment and essential materials for their day-to-day work. The final beneficiaries will be the children with disabilities and their families. When combining those two approaches, the project will directly target 1,400 individuals. The beneficiaries will be selected in cooperation with the relevant institutions.

The activities and needs have been identified through a need-based assessment jointly conducted by ChildFund Deutschland (DE) and its Sub-IP's Yellow Blue Wings (YBW) and PARD in August-September 2022. The following information and dataset were considered: data analysis of secondary data, phone interviewing, cluster meetings, Direct Key informants’ and IDP interviews. 

To gather opinions and suggestions and to measure the satisfaction level about the assistance received by the beneficiaries, and therefore make changes in the project, when needed, a set of specific web-based tools (including a satisfaction survey) will be put in place made available in different languages.
Urgent Humanitarian Response from Ukrainian Deminers Association Considering ongoing Russian aggression and active combat actions in Ukraine the NGO Ukrainian Deminers Association (UDA) in cooperation with implementing partners: the NGO AirLight (organization of people with disabilities, works to support conflict-affected people, has direct access to mine victims) and the Mykolayiv Regional Charitable Foundation “Regional Foundation Blagochestya”– all together hereinafter also HMA Consortium), developed a is proposing a flexible, dynamic and robust project consisting of the following critical activities: direct help to effected by war population through the individual in-kind humanitarian support of conflict-affected people in Ukraine. The Ukrainian population is in need of basic items, medicine, baby food and baby care item, personnel hygiene items, regular food, water supplies, re-construction supplies and materials, etc.
1. Despite the fact that many volunteer non-governmental organizations and volunteers have become active in many regions of Ukraine, there is an acute shortage of such assistance. As part of this activity, we propose to create a strong and reliable system of Individual in-kind support in Sumy, Chernigiv, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Kyiv oblasts. In addition, we will create humanitarian routes that will follow from Poltava and Chernivtsi. The humanitarian aid necessary for the above-mentioned regions will be delivered from Poltava and Chernivtsi, and people will have an opportunity to be evacuated. It should be noted that evacuation will be provided only by safety roads, from settlements where no centralized evacuation. HMA Consortium's humanitarian coordinators will monitor the security situation. 
To provide quick and effective help to people, the UDA will use the already established reliable system of humanitarian assistance, which we have been creating since February 24th (the first day of the invasion).
It is important to note that along with the provision of assistance to people, information on needs will be collected and processed. We will collect all information in a special database, which will be transferred to the relevant UN structures on an ongoing basis. This will be done primarily to provide further long-term assistance to people in need.
During individual in-kind support, we will concentrate our help for war victims, the budget for each person will be around 200 USD. 
2. The second aspect of our activities will be that our instructors will conduct “Training of trainers” on personal security, and the algorithm of safety actions during active hostilities. As a result, we prepare 200 new safety trainers who will continue to conduct safety sessions in their hromadas. Depending on the region and the nature of hostilities, ToT will be held both in-person and online.
"Support vulnerable population in Zaporizhzhia, Donetska and Luhanska oblasts with multipurpose cash assistance" Project aimed at providing urgent aid in the form of multipurpose cash assistance for the most vulnerable 3400 individuals who live in oblasts that mostly affected by the war – Zaporizka, Donetska and Kharkivska oblasts – for individuals who live at non-occupied territories and occupied territories. At these three oblasts there are active war hostilities and part of each oblast under occupation. Significant part of enterprises were closed or relocated.  Many people lost their jobs and income. These oblasts are under permanent missile attacks by Russia, it causes the damage or destroying the houses, wounds and permanent risks for life. Due to this, in the occupied territories there are problems with heating, electricity and at the non-occupied territories due to the permanent attacks and destroying the houses people are faced with problems with heating, electricity. More than 200 000 IDPs from occupied territories –  Khersonska, Donetska and Zaporizhzhia oblast - were evacuated to Zaporizhzhia city, according to the official data from acting Mayor of Zaporizhzhia city. Permanent shelling of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station causes the high risk for citizens of Zaporizhzhia oblast. Part of IDPs evacuated from locations with active war hostilities but stayed at the territory of own oblast. The vulnerable population in these oblasts needed the MPCa support a lot, especially in target oblasts.

According to the data from the multipurpose cash assistance (MPC) table of cash working group  https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/ukraine/cash-working-group and info on needs provided in the Ukraine Flash Appeal (August revision), there is following situation on coverage these regions by multipurpose cash assistance: Kharkivska (764 000 in need / 91 000 covered), Zaporizhzhia (777 000 in need / 180 000 covered), Donetska (2 500 000 in need / 126 000 covered).

Within the project, three-month multipurpose cash assistance payment will be transferred to the bank account of beneficiaries. Multipurpose cash assistance transfer value is 2930 UAH ($81) per individual per month. Beneficiaries will be selected based on conducted vulnerability assessment during the call to the call center or during their physical visit to the social services centers in the local communities (for non-occupied territories). Beneficiaries from occupied territories will be selected based on conducted vulnerability assessment through online-form for occupied territories or lists from communities provided by social services from occupied territories which were evacuated and work remotely.

Beneficiaries – IDPs and local citizens of these oblasts: households which lost the job and now are unemployed and registered in the employment centers, households with children (1 or 2 children), vulnerable single women and men, households with pregnant women who lost the source of income, households with children or adults with disabilities.
Strengthening health structures’ resilience in preparation for winter in the Mykolaïv Oblast, Ukraine The objective of this project is to strengthen the capacity of the Ukrainian health system, especially during the winter season, in order to improve the quality and availability of health care for war-affected populations.

The activities of this project are divided into two axes: (a) The rehabilitation and upgrading of health structures in preparation for the winter, at the primary and secondary levels (b) The donation of medical inputs (equipment, medical materials and medicines) to ensure continuity of care, especially for the main pathologies encountered in winter.

The most vulnerable populations are the priority targets of this project. In the current context, this translates into the elderly population, as well as women and children still present in health areas close to the border. All beneficiaries will be selected solely on the basis of medical criteria and vulnerability. No discrimination will be made on the basis of gender, geographical origin, residence, ethnicity, religion or political affiliation.

ALIMA has been working in the Mykolaïv Oblast since April 2022, including in the health structures targeted by this program. Through specialized mobile clinics, donations and training, ALIMA has established a solid network and a good knowledge of the targeted areas of intervention.

The major risk today is a sudden change in the front line with a Russian offensive towards Mykolaiv. In addition, there is regular shelling of the town of Mykolaiv, as well as the towns of Bachtanka and Bereznehuvate.
In order to minimize the risks, the project teams monitor the situation daily, with the support of various technical referents at the level of the country coordination and the headquarters. The risk analysis is regularly updated according to the context and the SOPs adapted accordingly.
Multi-purpose cash assistance to war-affected populations in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk oblasts The project is aimed to address the Flash Appeal SO 1: “Provide timely life-saving multi-sectoral assistance to displaced and non-displaced persons, who are affected by the escalation of hostilities”. This is done by providing war-affected populations, esp. those living in worst affected regions and internally displaced persons (IDP), multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) for the next 3 months (April 2022 - June 2022) in Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk oblasts, where our operational network is the strongest.

Within the framework of this intervention, we aim to provide MPCA to 12 000 individuals, targeting the most vulnerable: households with children, households with members that have chronic illness/medical conditions, those who have lost their homes, whose household members were wounded, or who lost their main breadwinner. MPC transfer value is 2220 UAH ($74), as per the harmonized transfer value agreed by the OCHA cash working group (CWG). Payment is made as a one-time transfer for 1 month. The main transfer mechanism is through bank accounts, as long as the banking institutions are still functional. Alternative transfer modalities may be used by the suggestion of the CWG partners if banking institutions happen to fail in the targeted regions.

Since the beginning of the military escalation, the ERC has been coordinating its cash-based interventions with the OCHA cash working group (CWG). The ERC follows the harmonized MPC transfer value of 2220 UAH ($74) and makes use of the deduplication methods developed by the CWG. Common monitoring tools are also used in order to ensure that CBIs remain the most effective assistance modality throughout the project and to detect any changes in needs or markets in the targeted areas.

Since the conflict escalation on February 24th, together with its local partner Unity for the Future (Запорізький благодійний фонд "Єдність за майбутнє") based in Zaporizhzhya, the ERC has developed household vulnerability assessment framework and since 2nd March 2022 has provided multi-purpose cash assistance in Donetska, Zaporizhska, Sumska, Kharkivska, Kyivska, Zhytomyrska, Khmelnytska, Luhanska, Mykolaivska, and Kirovogradska oblasts. As of 24 March, MPCA has been already provided to 7300 households (some 22 000 individuals). We currently have the capacity to target appr. 300 households per day and carry out monitoring of previous beneficiaries at the same time. This currently running intervention has been funded by private donations gathered from the Estonian public. The current project proposal is an extension of that intervention.
Building capacity to identify and counter child sexual abuse and violence within the Ukrainian humanitarian context NGORC is working to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian aid providing support to NGO and CSO staff and volunteers in the forms of training on child sexual abuse awareness and prevention. Local organizations, frontline workers who are directly in touch with affected populations and IDPs are the main target group of this intervention.  

NGORC have been working on capacity-building projects that focuses on child sexual abuse awareness and prevention, as well as practical guidance, starting 2020 and have trained more than 300 NGO professionals from over 150 organizations nationwide. 

This project proposes specific emergency trainings for humanitarians focused on enhancing the knowledge and strengthen humanitarian organisations possibilities to act as a key agent to effectively address the issue of child sexual abuse in all its forms in Ukraine, including through enhanced identification, organisational processes, and awareness. 

This project will build capacity in the fields of fighting child sexual abuse, providing practical guidance, and promoting child protection among Ukrainian NGOs as well as enhance sustainability, expertise, effectiveness, and accountability of humanitarian organizations and cooperation among them. It takes into account current emergency context, and is adjusted so to be able to delivered to humanitarian workers, considering time constraints, context and priorities.  

Based on practical experience the trainings will also lead to an enhanced cooperation and support network for those children and families directly affected by child sexual abuse and violence in Ukraine, medium- and long-term, and increased availability of assistance, treatment, and therapeutic support. 

The basic training is condensed in time to fit current context and needs, and especially feasible for humanitarian workers who is in regular contact with beneficiaries, including IDPs. The condensed training will especially focus on key issues for front-line humanitarian workers such as awareness, practical approach, identification, and referral. 

The project will work with organizations within the formalised humanitarian response as well as with the majority of organisations currently working outside this coordination system. It will give opportunity to promote a coordinated response, as well as participation within the protection cluster, and its subclusters, as well as relevant working groups and clusters, which will add synergies, coordination, and strengthened advocacy.
Provision of winterization support to IDPs and conflict-affected persons living in Ukraine Contributing to the creation of safe, warm and dignified living conditions during the upcoming winter when temperatures will drop well below zero degrees Celsius, is a key priority of the humanitarian response, which complements and reinforces the efforts made by the Government of Ukraine and its local authorities and communities to address the impact of the war on people’s protection and lives. In this context, UNHCR is working to scale up repairs of damaged homes and ensure proper insulation is installed (Shelter) and heating appliances distributed (NFIs). 

Provision of heating appliances and insulation of sub-standard dwellings and damaged homes will ensure warm, safe and dignified living conditions for affected people prior to the onset of winter. UNHCR will target both people who have returned to their homes following a stabilized security situation in their oblasts of origin as well as people who never left their homes but who were affected by the hostilities, targeting the most vulnerable. Insulation of individuals homes will be implemented in the oblasts of Kyivska, Chernihivska and Zhytomyrska while NFIs will be distributed in the east, centre and northern oblasts (Dnipropetrovska, Donestska, Kharkivska, Luhanska, Zaporshshyaska, Khersonska, Poltavska, Sumska, Kyivska, Chernihivska, Vinnytsia, Odeska, Cherkaska, Zhytomyrska and Mikolayivska). 

As shelter cluster coordinator, UNHCR played a key role in the development of the 2022-2023 Winterization Plan: Winter priority procurement and repair plan grounded in a people-centred approach, prioritizing vulnerable people in Ukraine, including persons with disabilities, and people living in housing that has become affected and sub-standard due to the military offensive. 

Since the purpose of the project is to address time-critical humanitarian needs over the winter period, UNHCR will deliver heating appliances from September to December and carry out insultation materials through March 2023, aiming for early procurement and distribution of winter items and repairs to ensure a warm and safe winter period.
Provision of immediate lifesaving assistance to the most vulnerable conflict-affected populations through Shelter and Cash programming across Ukraine The proposal is linked to the HRP project HUKR22-FSCMS-186566-1 (LFS) 
 
To ensure that non-displaced households, located in the Donetska, Luhanska and Kharkiv Oblasts have access to lifesaving emergency support, NFI will distribute 3,000 Emergency Shelter Kits (ESKs) and 5,000 Non-Food Item (NFI) kits, as part of the Shelter Cluster’s objective of “Sustaining humanitarian activities in areas under threat through the provision of relief items and critical supplies” 
NRC will implement the Shelter activities through NRC’s established and expanding co-funded network of local partners with operational capacity and access in the target areas, while providing comprehensive transportation and warehousing logistical support, capacity building and access support.      
 
Moreover, considering that from the 24 of February over 7 million people displaced within Ukraine, NRC will complement the emergency response through a cash intervention in the Central and Western Oblasts. As a result of the ongoing war, large parts of the Ukrainian economy have been negatively affected or altogether ceased functioning. To support displaced populations to meet their immediate basic needs, including access to food and essential services such as housing, water and sanitation, health, and education, and reduce negative coping mechanisms, the humanitarian community has identified the scale-up of Multi-purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) as the preferred rapid response mechanism when feasible. Through this action, NRC proposes to assist 15,400 IDPs with MPCA. To implement at scale and target people on the move despite their changing locations, NRC has developed and will employ a digital system, untethering the geographical scope of the response. Therefore, NRC will reach out to beneficiaries through the recently established Digital Community Hub (DCH). The DCH allows crisis-affected people to connect with NRC, who in turn is able to understand needs and market conditions, and provide simple and innovative services, including information and cash transfers.
Provision of emergency multi-sectoral assistance to displaced persons and remaining population either in newly or previously impacted areas by the conflict in Donetska and Dnipropetrovska oblasts, GCA. The intensity of the ongoing military offensive throughout Ukraine have a severe humanitarian impact on the civilians. As a result, people are fleeing from their homes in high-risk and most-exposed areas, searching for safety. Therefore, the aim of the project is an immediate response to address the urgent and acute needs of the conflict-affected population by providing emergency humanitarian assistance. For that purpose, NW is planning to provide essential WASH and NFI items, such as drinking water, water tanks, jerry cans, hygiene kits (incl. PSN and Family), portable toilets, blankets, folding beds, etc. to individuals in social institutions, CCs/TCs and bomb shelters.