The International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), together with the Eastern Europe Foundation (EEF), with support from the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation (Norad) and in partnership with Sweden (Sida), is implementing the project “Empowering Civil Society for Ukraine’s Resilience and Recovery” ( the Impulse Project) . As part of this project, a small grants competition was announced for organizations from the regions of Ukraine most affected by the war.
The goal of the small grants competition is to engage civil society organizations from the most affected regions in planning Ukraine’s recovery and advocating for the principles of sustainable development, human rights, non-discrimination, and gender equality, as well as transparent governance in recovery strategies and local community development plans. To provide opportunities for the organizational development of teams through the implementation of small grants and participation in training programs and partnership development.
The Expert Council of the “Democracy and Good Governance” Program, which organized the competition, supported 24 project proposals. The winners of the competition were:
- Non-governmental organization “Network of Ukrainian Men Who Survived Captivity and Torture ‘Graduates’,” Kherson
- Non-governmental organization “Dnipropetrovsk Regional Association ‘Power of the Future,’” Dnipro
- Non-governmental organization “Bilozerka Info,” Bilozerka (Kherson Oblast)
- Charitable Organization “Charitable Foundation ‘Veritas Spes + Ukraine’,” Kharkiv
- Non-governmental organization “Association for Democratic Development,” Ivanivka village, Chernihiv region
- All-Ukrainian Charitable Organization “Down Syndrome,” Kyiv
- Public Organization “Community Center ‘New Generation’,” Kherson
- Charitable Organization “Charitable Foundation ‘Building the Future Together’,” Dergachi, Kharkiv Oblast
- Public Organization “Mykolaiv City Development Fund,” Mykolaiv
- Public Organization “Ukraine Support Team,” Kyiv
- Public Organization “Culture of Change,” Kharkiv
- Public Organization “Impact Center SKHID.UA,” Uhornyky village, Ivano-Frankivsk region (relocated from Severodonetsk)
- Public Organization “Rehabilitation Center ‘Zelenyi Hai’,” Zelenyi Hai village, Dnipropetrovsk region
- Public Organization “Institute for the Development of Civic Activism,” Korosten, Zhytomyr region
- Yuzhne City Public Organization “Center for Social Partnership,” Pivdenne, Odesa region
- Public Organization “My Direction,” Mykolaiv
- Charitable Organization “100 Percent Life Network. Zaporizhzhia,” Zaporizhzhia
- Public Organization “GOULOCAL,” Kyiv
- Public Organization “Spilno Hub,” Zaporizhzhia
- Public Organization “Zaporizhzhia Without Trash,” Zaporizhzhia
- Public Organization “City Reforms,” Kharkiv
- Public Organization “New Energy,” Kharkiv
- NGO “Generation You,” Kyiv
- NGO “We Are Needed Here,” Kharkiv
In the near future, representatives of the Foundation will contact the winning organizations to discuss the next steps.
