Deadline: 08-Aug-2025
UN Women is inviting Ukrainian NGOs and CSOs to partner in delivering an integrated humanitarian response and recovery programme in Kharkiv. The initiative aims to provide critical services tailored to the needs of vulnerable groups living in one or more collective sites.
The programme focuses on promoting inclusive governance by supporting legal reforms, enhancing civic participation, and strengthening institutions to uphold gender equality and human rights. It also aims to empower women economically through skills development, entrepreneurship, and improved access to decent work, addressing both regional and gender disparities. Additionally, the programme ensures that humanitarian and recovery efforts are gender-responsive by integrating gender equality into coordination, planning, and support systems, while co-leading the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group.
Key activities under this initiative include delivering protection services in collective sites, such as psychosocial support, legal assistance, and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention. Services will be designed to address the specific risks faced by women and girls, including GBV survivors, older women, and those with disabilities. Support will include individual cash-based assistance and coordination with local authorities to improve access to public services.
Infrastructure upgrades may also be carried out in collective sites to enhance safety, privacy, and accessibility. This includes installing ramps and handrails, improving lighting, making WASH facilities gender-sensitive, and completing minor repairs. These improvements will be implemented alongside other programme elements, not as standalone activities.
The programme emphasizes people-centred site management by engaging residents—especially vulnerable groups like older women and persons with disabilities—in planning and implementing initiatives. These community-led efforts aim to improve conditions in the collective sites, promote social inclusion, and support local integration or resettlement.
Durable solutions will also be supported, focusing on helping internally displaced persons (IDPs), particularly women and people with disabilities, transition out of collective sites by addressing barriers to employment and economic independence.
The available funding ranges from USD 50,000 to USD 150,000. Expected outcomes include enhanced coordination of gender-responsive humanitarian efforts and increased access to life-saving protection and livelihood opportunities for crisis-affected women and girls.
Eligible applicants must have experience delivering gender-sensitive humanitarian aid, especially in Kharkiv Oblast. They should have strong community feedback mechanisms, established partnerships, GBV and SEA risk mitigation strategies, and prior experience with UN funding. Familiarity with humanitarian coordination mechanisms and reporting tools like ActivityInfo is also an advantage.
For more information, visit UN Women.
