The town of Irpin to the west of Kyiv became one of its outposts during the Kyiv offensive by the Russian army, where heavy fighting took place from the 24th of February 2022. The 65,000-people town was partly occupied, and the aggressor heavily damaged the entire town. But Irpin is now famous for another reason
The Ukraine-controlled city of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk oblast is only several kilometres away from the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, and shelters thousands of IDPs. From the first days of the Russian full-scale invasion, the local organisation Solidarity and Evolution launched the HelpNikopol initiative. Following the request of 2020 EaP Civil Society Fellow
Author: Teona Tomashvili. EaP Civil Society Fellow 2021 What comes first to your mind when you hear civic tech? If you had asked me 2 years ago, I’m not sure how I would have explained it, especially in *that horrifying pandemic phase* of my life. Perhaps, I would have focused on the technology aspect, explaining
Officially in August 2022 every eighth resident of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in the Western Ukraine was an IDP: the city with a population of around 240,000 hosts almost 33,000 Ukrainians who had to flee their homes after the Russian invasion. Many of them are women: girls, young women, mothers with children, grandmothers with grandchildren.
For most women it is very hard to imagine being pregnant in the middle war, surrounded by incredible turmoil and fear. And yet this is what many Ukrainian women have been going through since February 2022. Stress related factors hugely influence the outcome of pregnancy, birth and postpartum recovery. In a time when no region
Nataliia Yaroshenko has been active in civil society since 2015. Her early years of activism were mostly focused on supporting cultural events, such as the Sumy Rock Fest, but then she experienced the ‘Active Citizen’ programme of the British Council in Ukraine and turned her attention to mobilizing youngsters to collaborate on community development projects.
As of January 2023, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates 5.4 million IDPs are displaced across Ukraine, with approximately 25% of IDPs being children[1]. 25% of IDPs surveyed by IOM report one or more of their current household members have disabilities, and 40% reported having older persons[2] among their household members. The Jewish-Ukrainian Social
Lado Javakhishvili is a lawyer by training and has spent nearly 10 years in public service working within the Georgian justice system. Up until the end of 2021 Lado served as the Deputy Director at the National Agency for Crime Prevention, under the Ministry of Justice, but with a growing desire to contribute to restorative
The Russian invasion of Ukraine led to the devastating destruction of many spheres of Ukrainian life, including local economic development. A considerable number of territorial communities have been occupied, leading to a large influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs), business closures, the destruction of housing and critical infrastructure, and more. About 90% of SMEs have
