Resources

General information on UNHCR Ukraine’s activities:

NEW: COVID-19 in Ukraine and UNHCR’s response Flash Updates: These are Flash Reports prepared to keep our partners informed on UNHCR Ukraine’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic vis-a-vis refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless, displaced and conflict-affected persons. Find them below:

Ukraine: Latest Information Products – March 2020 

  • This one-pager provides a summary of UNHCR Ukraine latest information products and useful links to the key policy documents, thematic fact sheets and UNHCR-led Clusters reports.

UNHCR Ukraine Country Fact Sheet – April 2020

  • The UNHCR Country Fact Sheet is a two-page document that contains general information on UNHCR’s protection and humanitarian activities in Ukraine, including information on its partners, persons of concern, funding overview, among others.

Ukraine Situation: UNHCR Operational Update – February 2020

UNHCR Ukraine 2019 Mid-Year Achievements

  • The UNHCR Ukraine 2019 Mid-Year Achievements is a two-page summary of our protection and humanitarian activities aimed at supporting refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless, internally displaced and conflict-affected persons in Ukraine and implemented jointly with UNHCR’s NGO partners between January and June 2019.

Recommendations on durable housing solutions 

  • Recommendations of the Cities of Solidarity Forum, which took place on 3 October 2019 in Kharkiv

UNHCR Ukraine Yearly Achievements 2018

  • The UNHCR Ukraine Yearly Achievement is a two-page overview of all of our protection and humanitarian activities in favour of refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless, internally displaced and conflict-affected persons in Ukraine in 2018.

Socio-economic profile of refugees and asylum-seekers 

  •  Socio-economic analysis of the profiles of refugees and asylum-seekers of working age, registered with UNHCR as of June 2019.

Multi-Year, Multi-Partner Protection and Solutions Strategy (MYMP) for Ukraine, 2018-2022 

  • Through extensive consultations with partners in 2017, UNHCR developed a Multi-Year, Multi-Partner Protection and Solutions Strategy for Ukraine. The strategy sets out UNHCR’s plan for engagement in Ukraine for a period of five years (2018-2022).

YEAR ONE Progress Report for the Multi-Year, Multi-Partner Strategy for Ukraine

  • After the first year of the MYMP in Ukraine, this report presents the achievements of the first year of implementation of the strategy in Ukraine (2018) as well as presents the way forward for each of the MYMP’s Strategic Objective.

UNHCR Ukraine’s 2019 Participatory Assessment

  • This report is based on the Participatory Assessment conducted by UNHCR Ukraine with refugees, asylum seekers, persons with complementary protection, stateless persons, persons at risk of statelessness, internally displaced and conflict affected persons in Ukraine between February and March 2019.

Refugee and Asylum Seekers Update – June 2019

  • This thematic fact sheet explores UNHCR Ukraine’s protection activities in favour of refugees and asylum-seekers.

Statelessness Update – September 2019

  • This thematic fact sheet explores UNHCR Ukraine’s protection activities in favour of persons at risk of statelessness.

Youth Fact Sheet – August 2019

  • This thematic fact sheet explores UNHCR Ukraine’s activities in favour of children and youth among its persons of concern.

Catalogue of Goods Produced by Refugees and IDPs

In support of advocacy efforts:

Legislative Update February 2020

  • The UNHCR Ukraine Legislative Update is published on a monthly basis and contains UNHCR’s legal analysis of laws and governmental policies that affects refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless, internally displaced and conflict-affected persons in Ukraine. Please note that you can search for Legislative Updates of previous months on the UNHCR online database Refworld.

UNHCR Ukraine Briefing Note on access to documentation for conflict-affected persons – January 2020

  • The UNHCR Ukraine Briefing Note provides an overview of barriers in obtaining and renewing identity documents for IDPs and conflict-affected persons and contains recommendations on simplifying the procedure.

UNHCR Ukraine Key Advocacy Messages on Internal Displacement – January 2020

  • The UNHCR Ukraine Key Messages contains a selection of our main advocacy messages for human rights duty bearers in Ukraine.

UNHCR Ukraine Key Advocacy Messages on Asylum – April 2019

  • The UNHCR Ukraine Advocacy Messages on Asylum contains our main messages for Ukrainian authorities to ensure rightful access to asylum.

UN Briefing Note on pensions for IDPs and persons living in the areas not controlled by the Government in the east of Ukraine (January 2020)

  • This is a joint United Nations briefing note to support advocacy in favour of access to pensions for IDPs and persons living in non-government controlled areas.

UN Briefing Note on freedom of movement across the ‘contact line’ in eastern Ukraine (January 2020)

  • This is a joint United Nations briefing note to support advocacy in favour of freedom of movement for civilians who cross the ‘contact line’ in eastern Ukraine.

UN Briefing Note on Birth Registration for children born in non-government controlled areas (January 2020)

  • This is a joint United Nations briefing note to support advocacy in favour of facilitating birth registration of children born in non-government controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.

UN Briefing Note on Inclusion of Internally Displaced Persons (January 2020)

  • This is a joint United Nations briefing note to support advocacy in favour of finding long-term solutions for IDPs and esuring their inclusion in all areas of life.

Protection Cluster Guidance Note: Peacebuilding And Reconciliation In Ukraine

  • Prepared by the Protection Cluster, this document provides practical guidance on how peacebuilding and reconciliation can be operationalized in humanitarian response, including examples from other contexts, as well as key recommendations.

Protection Cluster Guidance Note on Prioritizing People with Specific Needs

  • Prepared by the Protection Cluster, this document provides guidance for humanitarian and development actors on how to address protection risks and socio-economic vulnerabilities in their work, and highlights aspects to consider in operations to ensure a protection focused response in Ukraine.

Protection Cluster Advocacy Note on Mine Action – March 2019

  • Prepared by the Protection Cluster, this document supports advocacy efforts in favour of adopting mine action legislation in Ukraine that will facilitate the process of demining.

Protection Cluster Advocacy Note on Voting Rights of IDPs – February 2019

  • Prepared by the Protection Cluster, this document supports advocacy efforts in favour of internally displaced persons’ access to their voting rights in Ukraine.

Protection Cluster Guidance Note: Protection for Development Actors – July 2018

  • Prepared by the Protection Cluster, this document provides guidance for humanitarian and development actors on how to address protection risks and socio-economic vulnerabilities in their work.

Thematic information on UNHCR Ukraine’s activities:

Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) of legal assistance provided by UNHCR partners in 2019 (March 2020)

  • UNHCR Ukraine has been providing legal assistance to internally displaced persons and other conflict-affected people as early as 2014. Legal assistance is an essential intervention since it provides the basis for accessing national protection systems and the evidence base for advocacy, including though judicial interventions. This is the first time that UNHCR Ukraine undertakes a PDM of its legal assistance Programme. It is considered as a pilot exercise, which could be expanded in 2020 to legal assistanceprovided to asylum-seekersand refugees and persons under UNHCR statelessnessmandate.

UNHCR’s Cooperation with Ukraine Authorities – November 2018

  • UNHCR has been working in Ukraine since 1994 and has been supporting different Ukrainian government partners in improving the protection and humanitarian assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless, internally displaced and conflict affected persons in Ukraine. This document explores UNHCR’s partnerships with its main government partners.

UNHCR Ukraine Support at Checkpoints – November 2018

  • UNHCR supports the entry-exit checkpoints (EECPs) along the government-controlled side of the ‘contact line’ in order to ease the freedom of movement and improve the conditions for people who cross. This document explains the support that UNHCR has provided at the EECPs.

UNHCR Ukraine IPA Update – February 2020

  • As part of its wider protection response, UNHCR provides Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) to the most vulnerable among the displaced and other conflict-affected persons in eastern Ukraine. This document explains how we select beneficiaries as well as the protection impacts of this activity in 2019.

UNHCR Ukraine IPA in-kind Update – February 2020

  • This document presents the protection impacts of UNHCR’s Individual Protection Assistance in-kind provided by UNHCR and its NGO partners to internally displaced and conflict-affected persons in eastern Ukraine in 2019 as part of UNHCR’s Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) programme.

UNHCR Ukraine Winterization Update 2018/2019

  • Depending on available funding and needs, UNHCR provides winterization assistance in eastern Ukraine on both sides of the ‘contact line’. This document shares the achievements of UNHCR’s recent winterization programme in east Ukraine.

UNHCR Ukraine – GIZ QIP prospectus 2017

  • During 2017, UNHCR implemented 24 GIZ-funded Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) in the government-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine. The projects were funded under the auspices of GIZ’s initiative strengthening social infrastructure for the absorption of internally displaced persons.

UNHCR Support to Community Centres – Evaluation Report 2018

  • UNHCR Ukraine supported 86 communities to establish sustainable Community Centres in an effort to promote protection and durable solutions for internally displaced persons from 2015 to 2017. This report contains a review of these Community Centres and compiles good practices, lessons learned and recommendations for UNHCR’s future engagement in sustainable Community Centre programmes in Ukraine.

Online Maps and Dashboards:

Map of Ukraine with Internally Displaced Persons registered by Oblast – March 2020

UNHCR Ukraine Presence and partners map – February 2020

UNHCR Ukraine Presence and Coverage Map – February 2020

UNHCR Ukraine Coverage – Online Map – 2020

UNHCR Ukraine Shelter/NFIs – 2019 Achievements – Online Dashboard

Map of Peaceful Coexistence Projects – 2019

Map of Community Support Initiatives – 2019

Checkpoints Monthly Crossings – Online Dashboard

UNHCR Ukraine/R2P Eastern Ukraine Checkpoint Monitoring – Online Dashboard – 2020

UNHCR Ukraine/R2P Eastern Ukraine Checkpoint Monitoring – Online Dashboard – 2019

UNHCR Ukraine/R2P Eastern Ukraine Checkpoint Monitoring – Online Dashboard – 2018

Registration of Internal Displacement in Ukraine – Online Dashboard

Ukraine Settlements names and P-codes – Online Map

Protection Cluster Legal Aid Directory – Online Map

Protection Cluster 5W – 2019 – Online Dashboard

Protection Cluster Explosive Ordonance Risk Education – Online Dashboard

UNHCR and NGO The Right to Protection (R2P)’s ‘Crossing the Line of Contact’ Monitoring Reports:

UNHCR/R2P Monitoring Report. Crossing the Contact Line. February 2020

If you are interested to see monitoring reports for the previous periods, please find them, by selecting the month or the period: January 2020,  November 2019, October 2019, August 2019, July 2019, January-June 2019, May 2019, April 2019, January-March 2019, February 2019, January 2019, February-December 2018, January-June 2018, November 2018, October 2018, September 2018, August 2018, July 2018.

Humanitarian-Development Nexus Activities:

Area Based Initiative Concept Note “Community Resilience, Livelihoods and Health for Recovery and Peace in Conflict-Affected Areas of Donetsk Oblast”

Protection Cluster Documents:

Protection Cluster Factsheet – February 2020

  • The Protection Cluster Fact Sheet is a two page document that contains general information on recent protection information collected by Protection Cluster Partners in Ukraine. Please note that you can search for Protection Cluster Fact Sheets from previous months on the Humanitarian Response Portal for the Protection Cluster in Ukraine.

Protection Cluster Advocacy Note “Protection concerns of people living along the contact line” – February 2020 

  • The Protection Cluster Advocacy Note  outlines key protection concerns for people living along the contact line, which include restrictions on freedom of movement, mine contamination, lack of access to services, housing, land and property rights and provides recommendations for authorities, humanitarian and development actors

Report of Global Protection Cluster Roundtable on Internal Displacement in Peace Agreements and Peace Processes

  • Please find attached the report of the Global Protection Cluster Thematic Roundtable on Internal Displacement in Peace Agreements and Peace Processes, that took place in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2018.

Assessments, surveys and analysis:

NRC Humanitarian Shelter Damage Assessment – 2019

UNHCR Evaluation Report on State Youth Fund’s 50/50 Affordable Housing Programme for IDPs – January 2019

UNHCR/GFK Desk Research of the Surveys of IDPs

REACH Protection Assessment in Isolated Settlements in GCA – February 2019

Miscellaneous Resources:

UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Free legal aid to refugees and persons in need of subsidiary or temporary protection (also available in Arabic, Farsi and Russian)

1951 Refugee Convention

The Global Compact on Refugees, UNHCR’s Quick Guide