The end of the year is a great occasion to summarize the results.
The year 2022 was indeed challenging and difficult. However, it did not become a year of despondency, but rather gave us new impetus and incentives.

Along with the tumultuous year of 2022, which dramatically changed the lives of millions of Ukrainians, forced us to leave our homes again and receive IDP certificates, our work on assessing and improving the accessibility of places of compact residence of internally displaced persons in the Dnipro region for vulnerable categories of the population, including people with disabilities, which is being implemented with the assistance of UNDP Ukraine under the UN Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme with the financial support of the European Union, is coming to an end.

During the period of realization of the tasks and goals, the team of the PU “LAOPD” examined the living conditions of residents of 32 places of compact residence and interviewed more than a thousand people.

Effective joint actions of our team, representatives of local authorities, local public activists, volunteers, business representatives, and a group of specialists who conducted the sociological survey actively contributed to the project implementation.

We studied the condition of the shelters that sheltered thousands of internally displaced persons, recorded the problems that needed to be addressed as a matter of priority, shared our vision of improving the living conditions of IDPs, including people with disabilities, and identified their needs.

After the monitoring visits, which lasted several weeks, we summarized the results and compiled a list of needs for the CC. At present, we can say that on the eve of the New Year, communal institutions of communities and NGOs will receive equipment - special beds, furniture, technical and household rehabilitation equipment, refrigeration equipment, which should significantly improve the living conditions of IDPs in the CCs. In the future, this equipment will also be used for the local population receiving public social and rehabilitation services.

The target groups for the project were people with disabilities, the elderly and other IDPs in difficult life circumstances. Potential recipients of assistance were selected both based on the results of visits by the working group of representatives of the LAOPD and the results of a sociological survey, and taking into account the extent to which the municipal institutions or NGOs studied had long experience in working with older people and people with disabilities.
It is worth noting that temporary shelters for IDPs located in rented premises on the basis of verbal or other agreements were not considered due to the lack of legal grounds for the transfer of material assets to such organizations.
Mykola Nadulichnyi