The issues of attracting international aid to the eastern regions of Ukraine were discussed by the top managers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and representatives of the United Nations (UN) on Aug. 14 at a meeting with international donors. The UN roport says a total of $33.3 million is required to provide needed humanitarian help to Ukraine bettle zones.
The press service of the State Emergency Service said that over 50
representatives of organizations in the UN system that are potential
international humanitarian donors and other representatives of the
global society were present at the meeting.
Deputy Head of the State Emergency Service and chairman of the
interagency coordination center Vasyl Stoyetsky said at the beginning of
the meeting that at present residential facilities were inspected if
they are ready to accommodate displaced persons in the winter period:
2,189 municipal and state facilities with 24,400 beds and the
possibility of the further deployment of another 2,600 beds. The
passports for premises where displaced persons will stay were issued.
He said that the calculations on the additional need in funds to heat
the premises, additional power stations, facilities for drinking water,
beds, blankets and mattresses. An address to international
organizations that could provide the relevant material and technical aid
has been drawn up.
In turn, Head of the Regional Office for the Caucasus and Central
Asia Marcel Vaessen presented the key issues of the preliminary action
plant for Ukraine. The draft document contains information on financial
needs of UN for the humanitarian readiness and reaction in the country.
The plan contains needs in the financing of the potential and a
coordination mechanism of UN in Ukraine.
According to the plant, four strategic goals have been defined. The
first one is the technical support to the Ukrainian government in the
area of providing the readiness and coordination of humanitarian aid and
in the adjacent areas (national laws on the problems of internal
displacement, revision of humanitarian aid and its application). The
second goal is the permanent monitoring and assessment of the
humanitarian situation and needs in response to the situation in the
eastern regions, in particular, the regions suffered from terrorists,
regions which accept displaced people and places where they could
potentially return.
The third goal is the increase in the potential and the urgent
reaction to liquidate gaps in provision, including the preliminary
accumulation of the restricted stocks of vital goods if the humanitarian
situation sharply worsens.
The fourth goal is the establishment of top-priorities for efficient
measures on the restoration of infrastructure on the liberated
territories, with the special attention to the provision of funds for
living, normalization of the provision of key services, the return
programs and the reconciliation after the stoppage of the conflict.
“According to the preliminary calculations, a total of $33.3 million
is required to provide for the operations in the readiness under the
plan, including $2.5 million to provide technical aid to the Ukrainian
government, $2.2 million for the needs of permanent monitoring and
assessment of the situation, $18.3 million for the targeted humanitarian
reactions to satisfy the urgent needs in the suffered regions and $10.3
million for efficient activities on the quick recovery of
infrastructure at the early stages of post-conflict districts,” reads
the report of the press service.
