Deadline: 15-Jun-25
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) has issued a call for applications to introduce neighborhood development concepts across various regions of Ukraine.
With a submission deadline of June 15, 2025, this initiative empowers qualified civil society organizations, local government units, and urban practitioners to propose inclusive plans aimed at revitalizing community spaces, improving public infrastructure, and fostering participatory urban governance.
By focusing on neighborhoods as primary units for engagement, the program seeks to strengthen local ownership, resilience, and cohesion within urban settings.
Prospective applicants are invited to design conceptual proposals that address pressing urban challenges such as deteriorating public spaces, inadequate green areas, inefficient mobility routes, and limited access to essential community facilities.
The overarching goal is to generate scalable and adaptable concepts that reflect the priorities of local residents while aligning with broader national reconstruction and development agendas. UN-HABITAT will support implementation partners by harmonizing outputs with ongoing city beautification, sustainability initiatives, and reconstruction projects.
Neighborhood development proposals are expected to take a holistic and participatory approach. This means mobilizing public participation, engaging municipal bodies, and collaborating with urban planners, architects, engineers, and community-based groups.
By integrating inclusive decision-making with technical analysis and creative design, these concepts should help shape public spaces that are safer, more accessible, environmentally sustainable, and culturally resonant for Ukraine’s diverse urban populations.
Proposals can cover both urban and peri-urban environments and are not limited to specific city sizes or regions. Whether in metropolitan centers or smaller cities and towns, the emphasis is on delivering concepts that can be piloted with community engagement, later expanded, and ultimately embedded within city planning frameworks.
The program is designed to nurture cross-sector collaboration—bringing together government entities, civil society, academia, and the private sector—to foster partnerships capable of initiating lasting neighborhood transformations.
This call represents a strategic effort to embed resilience, social inclusion, and environmental stewardship at the grassroots level of Ukraine’s urban regeneration.
Through conceptual planning rooted in participatory methods, the program aims to catalyze a wave of community-driven renewal, building back better in the aftermath of conflict. Organizations ready to bring fresh, citizen-focused neighborhood ideas are encouraged to apply before the June 15 deadline.
For more information, visit UN-HABITAT.
