The Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine hosted a discussion
on the concept of the next stage of the projectPromotion of Social
Infrastructure, which was chaired by First Deputy Minister of Social
Policy Vasyl Shevchenkoand gathered specialists of the
Ministry, other central executive authorities, representatives of the KfW GermanDevelopment Bank Office in
Ukraine and the Ukrainian Social Investment Fund.
At the new stage of the project health facilities in Eastern
Ukraine will be rendered support. The urgency of this problem is
determined by a large number of internally displaced persons (IDPs), as they
grow in numberand need their social needs to be satisfied.
The project aims to improve living conditions and quality of services in
the communities that receive IDPs, and to strengthen the capacity of
local communities to contribute to the development of the medical
sphere.
The activities envisaged in the project will be implemented by
the Ukrainian Social Investment Fund for grant funds worth
EUR 14.45 million from the Government of Germany through the KfW Bank. The
developers of the project offer to execute a new phase of the project designed
for three years (2016-2018) in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions
in localities where a considerable number of IDPs was settled. The budget
of each micro-project will not exceed EUR500 thousand. The money will be
allocated to health care institutions ofmunicipal or state ownership exceptionally.
During the discussion First Deputy Minister of Social Policy proposed
to consider a possibility to extend the project in Donetsk and
Luhansk region, where the vast majority of internally displaced persons had moved
and where there existed a critical need to restore the
destroyed or build new infrastructure to provide basic
services to the population.
The final list of objects to participate in the project will be
approved by the Supervisory Council of the Ukrainian Social Investment Fund.
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