Ukraine

The Cash Working Group, through the Unified Cash Transfers (UCTs) and Group Cash Transfers (GCTs), contributes to the following 2026 HNRP Strategic Objectives and Strategic Priorities:

• Strategic Objective 1: Deliver life-saving, flexible, and people-centered cash assistance aligned with four Strategic Priorities, including:
• Strategic Priority 1: UCT for the most vulnerable populations residing in frontline areas
• Strategic Priority 2: UCT supporting evacuations
• Strategic Priority 3: UCT responding to strikes
• Strategic Priority 4: UCT targeting the most vulnerable long-term internally displaced persons (IDPs) living further than >50km from frontline
• Strategic Objective 2: Facilitate community resilience and recovery by providing group cash transfers that support a flexible, localized response to repair damage to institutions, community structures, and infrastructure affecting frontline communities (linked to Strategic Priority 1) and enhance locally led response.

The UCTs represent an evolution from the single MPCA activity used from 2022-2025. While MPCA will continue during the transition period where required, UCTs progressively become the primary unrestricted cash activities by 2026. The four UCT activities and Group Cash Transfers are 25% of the funding requirements under the 2026 HNRP.