Ukraine, UNOCHA contribution 2023 for Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF)
UNOCHA’s Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF) is a strategic and vital tool available to donors to pool their contributions into single, unearmarked funds to enable humanitarian partners to deliver timely, coordinated and principled assistance within the framework of Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) and Flash Appeals. The UHF thus enables a flexible and inclusive humanitarian response, strategically maximizing available resources.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Ukraine |
Humanitarian Assistance & DRR Water nothemedefined
Protection, access & security
Material relief assistance Water supply |
01.10.2023
- 31.12.2025 |
CHF 5’800’000
|
- Provide emergency multi-purpose cash assistance to vulnerable people to help them meet their basic needs (1.63M)
- Ensure access to quality life-saving medical care to the most vulnerable populations and communities affected by conflict (7.8M)
- People are supported with General Protection, Gender-based Violence, Child Protection and Mine Action interventions to access basic services (657K)
- 128’000 people assisted with multi-purpose cash assistance
- 66’000 families supported with heating appliances, winter clothing and critical household items
- 507’000 people provided with improved water supply
- 456’000 children and women provided with access to primary health
- 299’000 people provided with in-kind food assistance
- 650’000 people provided with psychosocial support or other forms of councelling and individual assistance
- United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation EMERGENCY RESPONSE
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Material relief assistance and services
Material relief assistance and services
Basic drinking water supply
Cross-cutting topics Conflict reduction
Aid Type Basketpooled multi-donor fund
Project number 7F10929
| Background | Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine continues to seriously deteriorate the humanitarian situation of civilians. An estimated 17.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance (UNOCHA). Destructions due to targeted attacks have impacted essential services, including access to education, health services and water. Anticipating similar attacks as in the year before, living conditions may get particularly severe for many during the winter months. Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine further threatens the supply of essential goods such as food, energy and fertilizers. |
| Objectives | Efficiently support the people in Ukraine in need of humanitarian assistance by contribution to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF). |
| Target groups | The 2023 HRP targets 11.1 million people, of which 6.1 million (56%) women and girls, 3 million (27%) children, 2.4 million (22%) older people, and 1.6 million (15%) people with a disability. Of the 11.1 million targeted people, 3.8 million are internally displaced people and 2.5 million returnees. |
| Medium-term outcomes |
The UHF enables humanitarian partners to deliver assistance within the framework of Humanitarian Response Plans (HRP). The HRP 2023 is built on two strategic objectives, while mainstreaming protection throughout: Strategic Objective 1: Provide principled and timely multi-sectoral life-saving assistance to internally displaced people, non-displaced people and returnees, ensuring their safety and dignity. Strategic Objective 2: Enable access to basic services for internally displaced people, nondisplaced people and returnees. Objective Second Reserve Allocation: Support the time-critical, high-impact activities of the winterization response plan. |
| Results |
Expected results: Selected outputs derived from the HRP 2023 to which the UHF will contribute: Results from previous phases: Key results achieved by UHF in 2022: |
| Directorate/federal office responsible |
SDC |
| Project partners |
Contract partner United Nations Organization (UNO) |
| Coordination with other projects and actors | The UHF strengthens coordination of humanitarian assistance and the role of the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) by promoting prioritization of interventions through the cluster system to ensure a principled response. It complements other humanitarian multilateral (ICRC, UNOCHA) and in-kind support of SDC as well as H-direct action, i.e., in the field of health, WASH and protection. |
| Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 5’800’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 5’800’000 Total project since first phase Swiss budget CHF 25’000’000 Budget inclusive project partner CHF 29’000’000 |
| Project phases | Phase 2 01.10.2023 - 31.12.2025 (Current phase) Phase 1 15.02.2022 - 31.03.2023 (Completed) |
