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  • First local recovery projects to receive funding from the Fund for Elimination of Consequences of Armed Aggression

    The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the list of the first projects to receive funding from the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression of the russian federation. UAH 6.6 billion will be allocated from the Fund to implement the projects. The relevant decree was adopted at a Government meeting on Friday.

    The list of the first local recovery projects to be financed from the Fund includes 159 projects in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions.

    The approved projects include the construction (rehabilitation, reconstruction) and emergency repairs of residential buildings, medical facilities, schools and kindergartens, municipal infrastructure, as well as the construction of civil defence structures, etc.

    “Today, the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression is the first state recovery tool based on the logic of digital management. For example, the process of submitting projects by regional and local authorities is carried out through a sectoral system based on the DREAM platform. And the selection of projects is carried out in accordance with an automated prioritisation methodology based on the World Bank approach. This experience, with the maximum involvement of communities, will be the basis for the further state vision of organising the country’s recovery process,” said Oleksandra Azarkhina, Deputy Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.

    As a reminder, the first meeting of the Interagency Working Group to review the summarised proposals of applicants for the allocation of funding from the Fund was held on 12 May. The working group reviewed 377 proposals submitted by Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Chernivtsi regional military administrations.

    The total cost of the projects submitted for consideration was UAH 17.9 billion.

    Taking into account the recommendations of the Interagency Working Group, the projects that meet the primary needs of citizens and create the necessary conditions for restoring normal life in the regions most affected by the full-scale russian invasion were approved for funding.

    At the same time, the list of projects excluded those that, according to the State Emergency Service, do not meet the requirements for the construction of civil defence or radiation shelters. As a result, the first list of projects to be financed from the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression was drawn up.

    The next meeting of the Interagency Working Group to review the summarised proposals of applicants for the allocation of funding from the Fund is scheduled for July 2023.