Description of the projects

Kharkiv Regional Foundation “Public Alternative”

Title: Gender sensitiveness of local policies and legal practices on internal displacement

The project is aimed at embedding gender as a cross-cutting issue in local policies and legal practices on internal displacement.

Objectives of the project are:

  1. Incorporation of gender component to regional and local development plans or IDPs' integration programms in pilot communities
  2. Improvement of legal practices on IDPs rights protection through gender sensitive and victim oriented approach
  3. Integration of a gender perspective in business practices related to IDPs.

All-Ukrainian Charity Foundation “Gorenie”

Title: Building capacities of IDPs through development of mobile application “IDPRights - protection of IDPs’ rights”

The project is aimed at building capacities of IDPs by creating system of notification about important news and events, ensuring provision of comprehensive legal assistance and organizing a discussion platform through development of mobile application  “IDPRights – protection of IDPs’ rights”.

Objectives of the project are:
1. Raising awareness of IDPs about solutions to their urgent problems or various important aspects of successful integration  by creating audio podcasts and video interviews to be plased on the mobile app “IDPRights”
2. Providing a platform for communication and joint public initiatives for IDPs from different regions of Ukraine and representatives of state authorities
3. Raising legal awareness and improving legal protection of IDPs by developing legal education materials.

Civil Holding "Group of Influence"

Title: Local advocacy for IDPs

The project is aimed at activating IDPs to solve their problems on local level through advocacy campaigns  and  fostering participation in decision making processes.

Objectives of the project are:
1. Conduct an all-Ukrainian competition among the IDРs on the training of advocacy campaigns to protect interests.
2. Conduct trainings for 40 IDPs, focusing on regions with the highest number of IDPs, on using local democracy tools to secure their own rights
3. Provide mentor support in realizing the training of their own advocacy initiatives in local communities.

 

Kharkiv Institute for Social Research

Title: Development of the IDP needs assessment tool  

The  project is aimed at  developing the universal methodology for assessing IDP' needs which will allow local authorities to regularly update programms for IDPs and more efficiently use the budget.

Objectives of the project are:
1. Development of the methodology
2. Coordination of the unified approach to IDPs needs assessment at national level

Findings and materials

Publications

Change Leaders of Local Communities (English) 

The gender dimension of internal displacement in Ukraine: local policies, business practices and
legal instruments of protection (English)

Gender dimension of internal displacement: practice around the globe and situation in Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Training materials: Gender component in addressing the issues of internal displacement through local policies, legal instruments and business practices (Ukrainian)

Needs of IDPs in Izum: survey results (Ukr+Eng summary) 

Expert conclusions and recommendations

The gender dimension of internal displacement in Ukraine: local policies, business practices and legal instruments of protection (English) 

Internal displacement in Ukraine: gender mainstreaming in local policies

Ensuring the rights of IDP women and girls: the role of NGOs

Gender dimension of internal displacement: the instruments of legal protection

Corporate responsibility to respect human rights in internal displacement: gender component

Manual on the assessment of needs of IDPs (Ukr+Eng summary) 

IDPs and instruments of local democracy (Ukrainian)

IDPs and temporary housing (Ukrainian)

Status of a child affected by the conflict (Ukrainian)

News

Back Tips for a successful advocacy campaign

Tips for a successful advocacy campaign

25-27 October the second training on advocacy and communication held in Kyiv. 20 representatives of IDPs, NGOs and local authorities took part.

In participants’ opinion the successful advocacy campaign comprises the following:

• an initiative group of people who share common values and interests

• defined strategy and action plan

• sharing of information and responsibilities among the members of the initiative group and other stakeholders

• targeted information campaign with clear messages

• permanent monitoring and evaluation of results on the each stage of a campaign.

The event is organized by NGO “Civil Holding “GROUP OF INFLUENCE” within the grant provided by the Council of Europe project “Internal Displacement in Ukraine: Building Solutions”.

Kyiv 28 October 2019
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