Addressing protracted internal displacement and fostering durable solutions: Progress and opportunities to positively impact the lives of IDPs

Vadym Chernysh GP20 Steering Group Meeting 27 June 2019, Palais des Nations, Geneva 1,3 mln IDPS, incl. 30 000 from

Kyiv region 210.000 region Lugansk 130.000 region 270.000

Dnipropetrovsk region region 69.000 490.000

Odessa Zaporizhia region region Reasons of internal displacement: 35.000 55.000 • armed conflict in the eastern and occupation of Crimea; • threat to own life and the life of family members; • the need for access to social, medical, educational services; • the activities of the occupying forces of the Russian Federation and the self-proclaimed authorities in relation to the population; • non-recognition and rejection of the illegal actions of the self-proclaimed authorities;

• social insecurity; CHALLENGES AND REASONS DISPLACEMENT: INTERNAL • the impossibility of the realization of fundamental human and citizen's rights and freedoms: freedom of movement, forcible involvement in illegal armed groups “On Ensuring Rights and Freedoms of Internally Displaced Persons” In In 2014 Verkhovna Ukraine of Rada Law adopted Ukraine of the - - - education; insurance,services, social - - for: law IDPsThe rights establishes of the other rights.other safe conditions, living family unity; realization of voting rights; employment, state pensions, social obtaining recovery and of documents;

MEASURES FOR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE In 2017 approved the State Targeted Program for Recovery and Peacebuilding in the Eastern Regions of Ukraine RPA has been carried out by STP main thematic components

Infrastructure and social services

Social resilience, peacebuilding Economic recovery and public security Valid for 5 areas that have accepted the highest number of IDPs SOLUTIONS FOR IDPS FOR SOLUTIONS The program provides:

• restoration of housing of communal property for the residence of IDPs; DURABLE OF IMPLEMENTATION • raising the level of awareness of IDPs about programs/projects targeted at the development of small and medium-sized enterprises; • support of small and medium-sized enterprises in Donetsk and , established by IDPs; • attracting IDPs to participate in decision-making processes. covers whole territory the of Ukraine. for Plan Action implementation. its document The Internal for Displacement Period the until 2020 Persons Implementation and of Long Strategy for Integration the of Internally Displaced At of end 2017,Government the the adopted the Strategy was supported by: memberscommunity of andlocal authorities” “Internallydisplaced persons should be considered as a resource for society, not a burden for - Term to Solutions ü ü ü ü internally European freedoms of Recommendations Displacement; Internal on Principles Guiding UN Standards the and the the and Council displaced and of Union the legitimate of Committee recommendations The strategyThe responds: and persons Europe resolutions interests . of on Ministers issues of of internally for the that of developing Parliamentary the relate displaced Council to strategies of the persons Assembly Europe rights, for ; ;

IMPLEMENTATION OF DURABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IDPS Strategy Action Plan

Consultations were held with international experts: representatives of UNHCR, World Bank, OCHA and the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine. The experience of foreign countries on the integration of IDPs and the implementation of long-term A high-level seminar "A new principle for solving the solutions for internal displacement (Azerbaijan, Georgia, problems of the ongoing internal displacement of persons in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia) were used. Ukraine", organized by UNHCR and the OCHA was held on September 25, 2017 A public discussion of the draft Action Plan was held with NGOs, international organizations, diplomatic The report “Solution in despair” was presented, institutions, government bodies, local government. containing recommendations for Ukraine in the issues of overcoming the consequences of internal displacement. In total the MTOT received 310 comments and ( ) Professor V. Kelin suggestions from 27 public authorities, international and The draft Strategy is presented at the “Three Years of national organizations and civil society representatives. Displacement: Challenges and Good Practices of IDPs Integration” forum, organized with the Council of Europe. The Forum participants included more than 100 people from 13 oblasts of Ukraine, representatives of state authorities, STRATEGY AND ACTIONSTRATEGY PLAN DEVELOPMENT /local social services, institutions and facilities, NGOs,

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HEADLINES Addressing the needs Dialogue of Proper care in health Accounting for IDPs Social and Participation of of IDPs in the state and local care facilities in the distribution of temporary IDPs in the local development of authorities on medical and housing elections regional and local IDPs educational services programs

Documents recovery Preferential Support for Automatic control over New Re-qualification,

taxation of displaced pension and social workplaces retraining of IDPs GOALS STRATEGIC landlords universities payments

Distance Free accommodation in Providing pension Inclusion of IDPs in the education dormitories, provision of and social benefits register of local programs textbooks community members Legal regulation

ü Simplification of the procedure for entering the higher education institutions: - creation of educational centers "Crimea - Ukraine" (37) and "Donbas - Ukraine" (24) on the basis of displaced higher institutions; 2019 - provision of IDPs with hostels, textbooks and internet. -

ü Access to medicine with no discrimination of IDPs in comparison with the population of host communities.

ü Accounting for the number of IDPs in the allocation of state funding of health care in the communities.

ü Ability to participate in the national elections under the simplified procedure. STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION, 2018 IMPLEMENTATION, STRATEGY ü Implementation of the programs to provide IDPs with housing (temporary, credit, social). State budget funding

ü Payment of targeted assistance to pay for utilities for IDPs (more than 120 million US dollars are allocated annually from the state budget) 2019 -

ü The “Affordable housing” program provides IDPs with permanent housing (half of the cost of purchased housing paid by state, loans for IDPs)

ü A mechanism has been implemented for the provision of IDPs’ temporary housing in co-funding from the state (50%) and the local budget (50%), which is valid for the entire territory of Ukraine (cooperation with Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk oblasts)

ü Ukrainian Social Investment Fund repaired/built the accommodation facilities for temporary residence of IDPs

ü The equipment for issuance of passports to Ukrainian citizens with an electronic contactless 2018 IMPLEMENTATION, STRATEGY carrier has been purchased to improve the conditions for the provision of administrative services to IDPs in 13 cities of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts ü placement of information about the rights of IDPs on official web resources of state and local authorities

ü operating “hotline” for IDPs for providing legal assistance and consultations for IDPs

ü conduction of visits to local communities on the purpose to dissemination information about State Policy on issues of IDPs and the necessity of integration of IDPs into the host communities

ü holding meetings with Ukrainian politicians and MPs ADVOCACY SUPPORT OF IDPS OF SUPPORT ADVOCACY ü holding joint advocacy activities with UN OCHA, UNHCR, the Council of Europe Office AND INCLUSIVENESS COMMUNICATIONS,

ü dissemination of information through non-governmental organizations and conduction of informational campaigns The The international technical assistance and loan raisedfunds by MTOT,the which are targeted at integrating IDPs and supporting host communities The The MTOT partners The The MTOT attracted 233.5 million US dollars (2016 • • • • • • • • • • Projects are implemented following in the areas: internally displaced personsinternally displaced national monitoring system of situation on the legal protection of IDPs communities economicincreasing the potential of conflict reselience peacebuilding grantsmall programs for starting your own business professional integration retraining and of IDPs for“hotline” IDPs (legal assistance, consultations) temporary housing for IDPs psychosocial of IDPs support , social cohesion, confidence, social building - 2019) - affected

ATTRACTING ITA National Monitoring System on the Situation with IDPs works in Ukraine since since Ukraine in works IDPs with System Situation Monitoring the National on • • • • • • • • • • services and assistance needs in 24 oblasts of oblasts 24 in assistanceneeds and services movementtrends levels,and intentions,including Quarterly persons displaced of needs and providesbetter NMS The understanding of cooperation implementedisin NMS MTOT, with MSP toIOMNMSUkrainianadapted the context. (IDPs)and and collecting System Monitoring National the of objective The othersources administrativedata relevant and data available discussions group focus informants key telephone face - to Maininformation sources used for NMS face the survey collects information on socio information on collects survey the IDPs households, as well as the challenges theyface challenges IDPswellasthe as with. households, interviews interviews analyzing informationanalyzing socio the on via face via (4000) - to (2400) (6 FG(6 quarterly) - face interviews interviews face in Ukraine. in (600) the evolving movementsthe locations, and numbers, Ukraine and . and Ukraine from - (NMS)in Ukraine is to support economic characteristicseconomic - employment, livelihood opportunities, access toaccess social employment,opportunities, livelihood economic § § § § § § § integrationinto local communities mobility IDP toaccess services social well employmentIDPs of characteristicsIDPsof households their and returnees to the non the to returnees characteristicsIDPsof household and at individual - being of IDPs NMS componentsNMS of internallyof persons displaced the Government of Ukraine in Ukraine in of Government the - government controlled areas controlled government 2016 vulnerabilities

NATIONAL MONITORING SYSTEM ON THE SITUATION OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS Other Safety Suspension of social payments tocarehealth Access tomedicines Access Unemployment rent for Payment Living conditions Lack of opportunity to return utilities for Payment Lack Lack of own housing residence residence permanent of place the to * Nationalmonitoring system, 2018 December IOM, of The mostfor problematic issues The IDP money households, %* households, no information no no April available available information 13 23 27 20 9 2 5 3 1 2 2017 December 11 37 19 4 5 3 5 1 1 4 1 1 2018 Other Collective in room Rented Dormitory Rented housing Own Host Rented IDPs apartment family IDP accommodationIDP %* types, house apartment centres / relatives for for April 22 43 16 6 7 3 1 2 2017 December 49 10 12 14 4 4 4 3 2018

WELL-BEING OF IDPS AND LIVING CONDITIONS In accordance with National Monitoring System on the situation of IDPs the employment rate among IDPs is 45% (December 2018). Among them: 48% assess their previous employment to be the same as their current job. 27% believe they had a better job before the conflict. 16% assess their previous job to be worse than their current job.

67% of those IDPs that were working before displacement, found jobs that were the same or similar to their pre-displacement work. Almost all IDPs have intentions to find a job in Ukraine or have already found a job in Ukraine and have no intentions to find a job abroad

General IDPs’ intentions to find a job abroad April March June September December 2017 2018 2018 2018 2018 Have already found a 1 1 1 1 1 job abroad and are about to move EMPLOYMENT SITUATION OF IDPS OF SITUATION EMPLOYMENT Have an intention to 4 5 5 5 5 find a job abroad soon Have nothing against working abroad, but 45 48 51 52 56 personally I am not going to The current occupation of IDPs and local residents (hosts) in accordance with World Bank report “Conflict in Ukraine : socio-economic impacts of internal displacement and veteran return” (% of all employed IDPs and hosts)

Hosts IDPs Managers 11% 13% Professionals 15% 24% Technicians and associate professionals 11% 12% Clerical support workers 5% 6% Service and sales workers 19% 20% Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 1% 0% Craft and related trades workers 15% 9% Plant and machine operators, and assemblers… 8% 5% Elementary occupations 7% 7% JOBS CURRENT OF CATEGORIES Armed forces occupations 1% 0% DIFFICULT TO SAY, REFUSE 7% 5% Equal access to the same types of services as local The reasons of unequal access in accordance with NMS residents (% of all IDPs) (% of those IDPs who think they have unequal access)

YES 2% 24% Lack of local residence NO 56% registration PARTLY Poor financial situation of 33% your household REFUSE 8% 65% Prejudice due to your IDP 26% status

Lack of necessary 8% documents EQUAL ACCESS TO SERVICES - IDPs’ satisfaction with the accessibility of basic December 2018 Physical inaccessibility for social services 6% disabled Possibilities to obtain education and enrol children 88 in schools/ kindergartens Poor transportation in the 3% area of your residence VIEWS IDP Accessibility of administrative services 81 Possibility of receiving a pension or social assistance Other 4% 79

Accessibility of health-care services 68 IT’S DIFFICULT / REFUSES 11% TO ANSWER Availability of employment opportunities 62 * Nationalmonitoring system, 2018 December IOM, 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 June,2017 The share of IDPsshareThe of whoreported, stayingbeencurrenttheyhadthat place their in Theshare ofIDPs who reported thatthey had beenstaying in their currentplace ofresidence for over three years September, September, 2017 of residence for residence overthreeyears of reached December,2017 March,2018 June,2018 69 % in 2018 September, September, 2018 * December,2018

LENGTH OF TIME SPENT IN THE CURRENT PLACE OF RESIDENCE IDPS’ SELF-ASSESSMENT OF THEIR INTEGRATION IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY (COMPLETELY AND PARTIALLY) – 86%* INTEGRATION INTO LOCAL COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES LOCAL INTO INTEGRATION

*National monitoring system, IOM, December 2018 * Nationalmonitoring system, 2018 December IOM, June 2017 June March2017 IDPs ’ December 2017 September 2017 September conditions for March2018 June 2018 June integration September 2018 September December 2018 in the local community , % *

INTEGRATION INTO LOCAL COMMUNITIES Ø Even the best strategic decisions may not achieve their goal due to inadequate implementation.

Ø Implementation of the Integration Strategy of IDPs can not be the matter for one Ministry - MTOT - even if it is a coordinating body.

Ø The lack of budget allocation to specific activities planned in the Action Plan.

Ø Action Plan for implementing a strategy shall be the KEYFINDINGS flexible document and based on feedbacks from recipients, civil society.

Ø The lack of understanding between different actors (humanitarian/development partners, national/local authorities, NGOs/authorities).