Ukraine – Humanitarian aid – Save the Children Canada 2023

March 2023 – Humanitarian needs in Ukraine continue to be significant. The 2023 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) indicates 17.7 million people require humanitarian assistance in Ukraine this year. Priority needs result largely from attacks on energy and shelter infrastructure which hampers access to water food health care transportation telecommunications and other essential services. The war is impacting women and men in different ways and is exacerbating pre-existing inequalities. With GAC’s support Save the Children Canada is supporting a two-year integrated gender-responsive multi-purpose cash assistance and protection including child protection and against sexual and gender-based violence responding to life-saving basic and protection needs for IDPs non-IDPs and returnees in east Ukraine. Project activities include: (1) distributing multipurpose cash assistance and shelter top-up cash assistance to identified households; (2) providing age appropriate and gender responsive non-food items including winterization items to identified crisis affected households; (3) providing cash assistance to highly vulnerable households with child protection needs to access gender-responsive services; (4) strengthening capacities of key child protection stakeholders’ to provide age and gender appropriate child protection services; (5) providing age and gender responsive child protection case management services to identified girls and boys; (6) enhancing awareness of protection risks and availability of protection services among crisis-affected communities including through mobile teams; and (7) enhancing capacity of female and male community members on gendered protection risks.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved access to basic needs and services for crisis-affected households through multipurpose cash assistance and non-food items; (2) increased access to gender-responsive and age-appropriate child protection services for crisis- affected girls and boys including under-aged and unaccompanied children and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; (3) enhanced awareness of protection risks and availability of protection services among crisis-affected girls boys women and men; and (4) enhanced capacity of female and male community members including parents and caregivers to mitigate and respond to protection risks. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.