Strategic Objective 1 (SO1): Life-saving Emergency Assistance: Humanitarians will provide principled and timely multisectoral life-saving emergency assistance to the most vulnerable internally displaced people and non-displaced war-affected people, ensuring their safety and dignity, with a focus on areas with high severity levels of need.
Of the total 6 million people that the HNRP plans to reach in 2025, 5.6 million will be prioritized for response under SO1: 1.3 million internally displaced people and 4.3 million non-displaced war-affected people, including returnees. The total requirement for SO1 is US$1.78 billion.
Activities under SO1 aim to deliver emergency humanitarian assistance to address needs as result of the direct impact of the ongoing war and allow for more flexible programming to respond to new emergencies. These activities will be concentrated in areas with the highest intersectoral needs, primarily along the front line in the east, south-east and south, and the north-eastern border with the Russian Federation, as well as in some pockets of concentrated need in the centre and west of the country, where vulnerable displaced people and evacuees are received. Activities include emergency shelter and non-food items (SNFI) support as well as the delivery of multisectoral assistance in collective sites, ensuring immediate access to emergency food and life-saving health care, and critical specialized protection services, alongside multipurpose cash assistance and prioritized social support. Additional efforts focus on strengthening community capacities to establish inclusive protective mechanisms, manage child protection cases and provide case management, and psychosocial support for survivors of gender-based violence. To further enhance safety and well-being, the response aims to deliver public awareness-raising on the dangers of explosive ordnance, emergency shelter and essential non-food items (NFIs) as part of winter response (winter heating, personal and house insulation), and basic WASH services and supplies. Together, these efforts address urgent needs while prioritizing protection and dignity for affected communities.
Strategic Objective 2 (SO2): Access to Prioritized Essential Services: Humanitarian partners will work to enable access to prioritized essential services for the most vulnerable internally displaced and non-displaced war-affected people, with a focus on areas with high severity levels of need to ensure their protection, safety and dignity.
Of the total 6 million people that the HNRP plans to reach, 3.3 million will be prioritized for response under SO2. This comprises of 642,000 internally displaced people and 2.6 million non-displaced war-affected people, including returnees. The total requirement for SO2 is $835 million.
The response will focus on enabling access to services including through existing national mechanisms to the extent possible, while complementing Ukraine’s social protection system. This includes facilitating safe and participatory site management that puts people at the centre; protecting and restoring essential livelihoods; enhancing readiness and preparedness for hazards; repairing protective emergency shelters and war-affected education facilities; providing catch-up learning for war-affected children; and capacity-building for humanitarian actors and government partners focusing on protection and housing, land and property rights.
Alongside these efforts, the response aims to raise awareness of child protection issues, conduct gender-based violence assessments and promote community engagement in line with existing human rights frameworks and accessibility legislation. Additionally, the objective seeks to ensure access to adequate housing (light and medium repairs, collective centre refurbishment and rental support) and communal services; support safe and dignified living conditions for affected communities; rehabilitate and repair district heating systems in emergencies; rehabilitate WASH facilities in institutions; support solid waste management; and provide multipurpose cash.
