Reconstruction and localization efforts in hromadas – program 2024 to 2029

The project aims to assist the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in supporting community-driven recovery and rehabilitation efforts in rural and peri-urban locations. This includes up to 5 hromadas (communities) in Dnipropetrovska Kharkivska Sumska and other Oblasts in Western and Central Ukraine. The project focuses on providing help to internally displaced persons who are seeking durable solutions. The project seeks to support the development and implementation of local recovery plans that align with the Government of Ukraine’s decentralization reform efforts and national recovery programs and policies led by the Ministry for Restoration. IOM aims to establish small grants and technical assistance mechanisms to empower civil society and community-based organizations to identify and implement community-level activities and local rehabilitation projects. Project activities include: (1) empowering local ownership of the recovery process; and (2) addressing barriers to durable solutions and broader recovery efforts including small-scale infrastructure rehabilitation in selected locations. IOM aims to design develop and deliver targeted capacity-building activities and establish a community-of-practice coordination platform for sustainable collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced local actors’ leadership in rehabilitation actions including women-focused organizations contributes to evidence-based hromada-level recovery; (2) improved the capacity of local organizations including women-focused organizations to deliver activities supporting hromada resilience rehabilitation and recovery plans; (3) improved local civil society organizations’ participation in coordination and collaboration mechanisms to provide services to their communities; (4) empowered displaced women and men in collective centres to identify and access their preferred durable solutions including housing support; and (5) strengthened information and coordination systems to support community-led planning for sustainable solutions.