Since February 24, 2022, social welfare institutions have been operating under unprecedented pressure, in particular, due to the increase in the inflow of IDPs. In June, the team of the Charity Foundation SSS responded to this challenge.
In partnership with the United Nations Refugee Agency in Ukraine, we launched the project “Supporting the capacity of the social protection system to register internally displaced persons”.
Here is what our team did in 2022 as part of the project:
- Established cooperation with 132 social protection departments in 17 oblasts, including the displaced institutions in the Donetska and Luhanska oblasts;
- Provided 268 new workplaces with office equipment and devices;
- Provided legal and information support to 8,319 people, covering topics ranging from IDP registration to workplace stress reduction techniques;
- Handed over 39 generators to social protection institutions;
- Created and distributed 33 informational materials, such as roadmaps for IDPs, infographics on IDP rights, booklets on the services of social protection departments, and guides with useful contacts in different regions;
- Identified and eliminated an error in Diia that prevented IDPs from receiving payments from the government.
Read more about these and other achievements of our project in 2022 in the booklet here: https://bit.ly/3Ws8eEy.
We will continue to support the social protection system. This year, the project covers all oblasts of Ukraine.
We would like to thank our partners: the UN Refugee Agency in Ukraine, the Ombudsman of Ukraine, the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, the Pension Fund of Ukraine, Kryvyi Rih – Cornucopia of Your Opportunities, State Employment Service, the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Diia, Department of Social Policy, Department of Social and Youth Policy.