Ukraine Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment: Analysis of Crisis Impacts and Needs in Eastern Ukraine
Publisher: European Union, United Nations, and World Bank Group
Date: 2015
Topics: Assessment, Programming
Countries: Ukraine
The RPA focuses on the areas under the Ukrainian Government’s control in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as the three adjoining oblasts – Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv. The RPA covers immediate recovery, rehabilitation and social cohesion needs, and is designed to be flexible so that its scope and recommendations can be updated as circumstances change.
Specifically, the RPA provides recommendations in three areas: restoring critical infrastructures and services; improving access to economic livelihoods; and strengthening social resilience and initiating reconciliation and peacebuilding. The recommendations identify activities that need to begin in 2015-2016.
The initial work on the RPA was supported by the European Union, United Nations and the World Bank Group between November 2014 and February 2015, under the leadership and with participation of the Government of Ukraine. National and international mission participants visited the five target regions and discussed the situation with a variety of groups affected by, or dealing with, the consequences of the conflict. The RPA builds on the already ongoing humanitarian relief efforts and winterization programmes to prepare more permanent solutions for the recovery of conflict-affected areas.