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
Since 24 February 2022, nearly 7.9 million Ukrainians have been forced to leave Ukraine to seek shelter in other countries[1]. As of November 29, more than 64,000 displaced Ukrainians arrived in Ireland (increasing the population by more than 1%) and became beneficiaries of temporary protection. Many fled their home country with just a few belongings
When, as a child, Mahammad Kekalov lived with his grandmother in Nort-West Azerbaijan, he integrated his grandmother’s severe visual impairment into his daily life as a matter of fact. Her disability had to be always kept in mind. The house needed to be adapted to her needs. Their daily routines had to be adapted to
