Ukraine May, Vulnerability: 2020 Regional Aspects
Children in Ukraine
Children account for more than a quarter of the country’s population. Almost 7.6 million children and young people live in Ukraine (0-17 years).
160 169 345 172 238 277 183 304 Chernihiv 234 272 238 Sumy Kyiv Volyn Rivne 248 432 Zhytomyr 558 233 485 417 279 235 447 199 241 490 196 Kharkiv 339 Lviv 245 City of Kyiv 214 Poltava Luhansk 211 579 276 Khmelnytskiy Cherkasy Ternopil 286 285 556 588 301 167 Ivano-Frankivsk Dnipropetrovsk 665 291 Vinnytsya Kirovohrad 176 285 184 293 Donetsk 206 Zakarpattya 185 290 Chernivtsi 468 210 196 Zaporizhzhya 435 Mykolayiv 199 Odesa Kherson
7,580 — — 2018 60 336 2011 8,003 Sevastopol Autonomous Republic (city council) of Crimea Ukraine Figure 1. Number of Children in Ukraine by region, absolute number (thousands) for every child, love Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | unicef.org.ua 1 may, 2020 Vulnerability: Regional Aspects
Children in the СOVID-19 Affected Regions
COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread in Ukraine. Restrictive measures are in place in Ukraine, incl. extending Ukraine’s quarantine untill 22 May 2020.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine imposed the state of emergency in all oblasts to maximize mobilization of resources and protect public health. Besides, it imposed restrictive measures: airway and railway traffic suspended, intercity and international bus service stopped. The COVID-19 pandemic and countrywide quarantine created a situation where 42,000 children (among 103,000 children) from 15 22 56 118 boarding schools were returned to 87 Chernihiv Sumy Volyn Kyiv their biological families or placed Rivne 38 in camps / shelters / rehabilitation Zhytomyr 180 41 77 18 3 31 City of Kharkiv centers, simultaneous and without Lviv 73 28 Poltava Luhansk Khmelnytskiy Kyiv any proper social work with such Ternopil Cherkasy 23 44 53 11 6 families. In the designated regions, Dnipropetrovsk Ivano- Vinnytsya Frankivsk Kirovohrad Donetsk cumulatively 12,787 children were 57 222 40 41 removed from Ministry of Education Zakarpattya Chernivtsi of Ukraine boarding schools, and 67 Mykolayiv Zaporizhzhya Odesa 25 as of the end of April total amount Kherson children in boarding schools is > 2000 cases 1,866, which includes boarding Autonomous > 1000 cases Republic of Crimea school all verticals of authority. 500–1000 cases < 500 cases Regions at risk: 18 Absolute number of cases of COVID-19 among children (0-17) by regions, Chernivtsi, Kyiv oblast and by laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus disease, as of 21 May 2020 Kyiv city, Ivano-Frankivsk, Figure 2. Distribution of cases of COVID-19 by regions, by laboratory-confirmed Rivne, Ternopil. cases of coronavirus disease among all population groups
As any other crisis, the COVID-19 will also be over. The priority task is to minimize its economic consequences on children in Ukraine.
Children will be disproportionally affected
First, households with children in Ukraine are the most Fourth, the risk of poverty increases with unemployed vulnerable group, particularly in terms of monetary poverty. in the family. Thus, economic shocks and consequent Almost every 3rd child lives in poverty, and almost every unemployment will disproportionally affect children; 7th (14 %) in absolute poverty; Fifth, the poverty level in large cities is 18.3%, and in small Second, there is a clear correlation - the more children in the towns and rural areas, there are twice higher – 38.0% and family, the higher the risk of falling into poverty. The highest 39.9%, respectively; poverty levels are among large families (3+ children): each second of them (51.8%) is poor by relative criterion and Sixth, in Ukraine there is inverse correlation between GDP more than two thirds (70.7%) are poor by absolute criterion; per capita and absolute poverty, notably without time lag. The economic downturn almost inevitably will lead to the Third, families with youngest children (<3 y.o.) are the poorest. growth of absolute child poverty. This can be greatly attributed to the lost job or inability of one of the family members to work due to care function;
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Poverty
The level of child poverty has pronounced regional differences: from 22.8% in Chernihiv region to 76.3% in Rivne.
A vulnerability focus has been identified in the northwestern 22.8 50.6 region of the country, where four 63.5 76.3 63.4 Chernihiv Sumy regions have high and very high Volyn Rivne 65.2 Kyiv rates of child poverty and eastern Zhytomyr 31.2 55.7 43.4 58.8 57.7 regions; high values are typical for 55.6 City of Kharkiv Lviv 55.6 48.9 Poltava Luhansk Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson Khmelnytskiy Kyiv Ternopil Cherkasy 40.8 39.4 regions and Kyiv oblast. 40.0 52.6 65.7 Dnipropetrovsk Ivano- Vinnytsya Frankivsk Kirovohrad Donetsk 41.2 34.3 53.6 36.0 Regions at risk: Zakarpattya Chernivtsi Rivne, Kherson, Donetsk, 58.1 Mykolayiv Zaporizhzhya Odesa 67.8 Zhytomyr, Volyn. Kherson
At risk Autonomous High level Republic of Crimea Medium level Low level
Figure 3. Relative Poverty in Ukraine by regions, percentage
The relative poverty line is calculated as a fixed proportion of per capita expenses.Ukraine is using the relative criterion of 75 percent of the median aggregate expenditures calculated per adult (24.1% in 2018, HBS)
years 27.1 Men 75+ Woman 28.3 17.4 Men 71-75 Woman 17.7 22.8 Men 66-70 Woman 22.1 22.3 Men 61-65 Woman 17.3 18.4 Men 56-60 Woman 20.0 20.0 Men 51-55 Woman 19.7 22.6 Men 46-50 Woman 20.0 20.5 Men 41-45 Woman 22.3 22.3 Men 36-40 Woman 25.4 24.4 Men 31-35 Woman 24.3 23.0 Men 26-30 Woman 26.1 24.5 Men 21-25 Woman 27.2 25.8 Men 18-20 Woman 22.1 24.4 Adolescent Boys 16-17 Adolescent Girls 26.9 26.0 Adolescent Boys 14-15 Adolescent Girls 34.3 28.8 Boys 7-13 Girls 29.8 30.2 Boys 3-6 Girls 33.9 35.1 Boys under 2 Girls 33.7 years
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Access to Health Care
There are substantial regional disparities in infant mortality rates: the highest rate (13.2 in Zakarpattya oblast) was more than 2 times greater than the lowest value (6.0 in Kyiv oblast).
The trend in the mortality closely follows changes in neonatal mortality. The progress in implementation of vaccination plans for older children currently varies between 22-28 per cent (vaccination with ADT-M, second dose, at the age of 7 and over; and BCG-2, at the age of 7) and 88-89 per cent (vaccination with MMR-2 (at the ages of 6, 7 and over). UNICEF warns that although evidence suggests that pregnant mothers are not more affected by COVID-19 than others, Ukraine need to ensure they still have access to antenatal, delivery and postnatal services. Likewise, sick newborns need emergency services as they are at high risk of death. New families require support to start breastfeeding, and to get medicines, vaccines and nutrition to keep their babies healthy. 9.3 6.1 8.6 7.6 6.0 Chernihiv Sumy An urgent appeal to government Volyn Rivne 8.8 Kyiv and health care providers to save Zhytomyr 6.3 8.1 8.1 6.1 6.5 lives in the coming months by: 7.2 City of Kharkiv Lviv 6.7 10.6 Poltava Luhansk Khmelnytskiy Kyiv • Helping pregnant women to receive Ternopil Cherkasy 7.7 10.4 6.8 10.4 8.5 antenatal checkups, skilled delivery Dnipropetrovsk Ivano- Vinnytsya Frankivsk Kirovohrad Donetsk care, postnatal care services, and 13.2 9.2 9.3 9.2 care related to COVID-19 as needed; Zakarpattya Chernivtsi 9.1 Mykolayiv Zaporizhzhya • Ensuring health workers are Odesa 9.9 provided with the necessary Kherson personal protective equipment and 8.3 Autonomous get priority testing and vaccination Republic of Crimea once a COVID-19 vaccine becomes Ukraine available so that they can deliver high quality care to all pregnant Figure 5. Mortality rate among children up to five years of age by region, women and newborn babies number of children of corresponding age who died per 1000 live birth during the pandemic; • Guaranteeing that all infection 83.5 prevention and control measures 90.1 83.1 89.1 are in place in health facilities during 76.5 72.2 95.1 85.7 Chernihiv 74.4 63.8 84.2 Sumy childbirth and immediately after; Kyiv Volyn Rivne 75.2 76.0 73.0 • Allowing health care workers to Zhytomyr 89.7 92.5 85.7 71.3 75.4 87.1 89.6 85.0 94.0 reach pregnant women and new 88.8 Kharkiv 75.0 Lviv 86.6 City of Kyiv 83.1 Poltava 87.4 75.0 Luhansk mothers through home visits, 76.1 Khmelnytskiy 87.1 Cherkasy Ternopil 62.7 70.5 encouraging women living in remote 75.2 79.1 93.3 Ivano-Frankivsk Dnipropetrovsk 77.6 areas to use maternal waiting 65.4 Vinnytsya Kirovohrad 87.6 71.4 81.3 80.2 Donetsk 100.0 homes, and by using mobile health Zakarpattya 80.2 83.0 72.1 96.5 strategies for teleconsultations; Chernivtsi 77.7 Zaporizhzhya 67.3 Mykolayiv 69.2 Odesa • Training, protecting and equipping 80.5 Kherson health workers with clean birth kits 78.4 Autonomous to attend home births where health Ukraine Republic of Crimea facilities are closed; • Allocating resources to lifesaving DPT-3 immunization coverage among one-year-olds Polio-3 immunization coverage among one-year-olds services and supplies for maternal and child health. Figure 6. DPT-3 and Polio-3 immunization coverage by region, percentage
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Access to Quality Education
The availability of pre-school facilities enables both full-fledged development of children and development of livelihoods strategy for young families.
Primary and secondary school Pre-school education completion rates are traditionally high in all regions of Ukraine. Delays to upgrading and modernizing existing schools pose serious 84.9 91.5 obstacles to improving school 73.5 69.5 93.3 Chernihiv Sumy leavers’ competitiveness and Volyn Rivne 84.9 Kyiv adopting new forms of inclusive Zhytomyr 85.6 84.1 71.1 88.9 education. Empowering every child 93.7 City of Kharkiv Lviv 78.5 89.5 Poltava Luhansk to obtain education is hindered Khmelnytskiy Kyiv 64.9 Ternopil Cherkasy 81.0 85.9 81.9 by lack of resources for providing Dnipropetrovsk Ivano- Vinnytsya proper learning conditions in every Frankivsk Kirovohrad Donetsk 72.6 79.3 school (including health-saving 84.2 82.0 Zakarpattya Chernivtsi environments), full-scale updating 69.5 Mykolayiv Zaporizhzhya of school curriculums, and Odesa 79.6 Kherson digitalizing the entire ‘educational ecosystem’. Autonomous 74.8 Republic of Crimea Ukraine
Figure 7. Net enrolment rate in pre-school educational institutions for children aged 3-5 by region, percentage
Primary and Secondary education
Table 1. Distribution of schools by type of the vulnerability by region, absolute number
Number of schools without Number of schools with more Number of schools with class Number of schools wih Total number of schools sewerage and water supply then 27 pupils per class space less then 2 м2 per one pupil feading utilities Ukraine 14 816 419 1 681 878 6 952 Vinnytsya 768 3 47 33 297 Volyn 612 41 27 45 255 Dnipropetrovsk 855 8 241 55 409 Donetsk 507 0 54 35 393 Zhytomyr 628 67 40 34 384 Zakarpattya 655 57 34 45 249 Zaporizhzhya 527 7 90 32 254 Ivano-Frankivsk 677 41 31 19 104 Kyiv 661 17 80 78 485 Kirovohrad 318 1 27 9 2 Luhansk 275 5 5 6 156 Lviv 1 175 43 104 53 570 Mykolayiv 483 7 55 26 92 Odesa 759 11 108 79 568 Poltava 587 6 56 29 235 Rivne 587 37 33 57 343 Sumy 411 1 38 20 211 Ternopil 699 18 32 10 420 Kharkiv 710 0 146 62 530 Kherson 410 4 45 22 261 Khmelnytskiy 644 1 52 19 33 Cherkasy 553 8 37 12 288 Chernivtsi 399 7 35 18 157 Chernihiv 485 25 46 22 242 City of Kyiv 431 4 218 58 14 for every child, love Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | unicef.org.ua 5 may, 2020 Vulnerability: Regional Aspects
Access to Safe Water (water, sanitation and hygiene)
The water supply system in all regions of Ukraine is centralized, much more extensive than required and extremely inefficient.
351 out of 354 cities and towns have the centralized water supply system, 525 out of 587 urban settlements (townships) as well as 7,664 out of 25,454 villages also benefit from the centralized water supply network. Population of the cities of only 3 oblasts (Kyiv, Odesa, Kherson) and the city of Kyiv fully (100%) receive centralized water supply services. Apart from that water is also the energy source for electricity 430.1 439.0 and heating in the area. (Data for 335.4 667.5 374.7 Chernihiv Sumy Donetsk and Luhansk oblast are not Volyn included in this statement due to Rivne 483.1 Kyiv 1,108.3 1,109.0 820.5 Zhytomyr 586.5 344.8 significant inconsistencies regarding 472.4 City of Kharkiv Lviv 352.0 512.1 Poltava Luhansk the number of settlements, Khmelnytskiy Kyiv 1 449.4 Ternopil Cherkasy 1,358.1 specifically in Donetsk oblast) . 624.6 412.1 913.7 Less than 50% of HH have access Ivano- Vinnytsya Dnipropetrovsk Frankivsk Kirovohrad Donetsk 353.8 306.8 to water “from a water supply 438.5 703.9 Zakarpattya Chernivtsi network”: Zhytomyr – 18.3, Ivano- 886.5 Mykolayiv Zaporizhzhya 398.9 Frankivsk – 25.1, Chernivtsi – 31.1, Odesa Vinnytsya – 43.2, Cherkasy – 43.8. Kherson
14,881.7 Autonomous Regions at risk: Ukraine Republic of Crimea Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsya. Figure 8. Number of households by region, thousands
Table 2. Distribution of households by type of the main source of drinking water by region, percentage
Delivers water From a water From a well, From a public From a source, from other sources supply network a column in its yard column From a public well a river, a lake Delivers water (purchase, etc.) Ukraine 62.7 24.1 2.5 2.8 0.4 0.7 6.8 Vinnytsya 43.2 42.5 1.0 10.7 0.6 – 2.0 Volyn 54.3 44.1 – 1.6 – – – Dnipropetrovsk 70.7 12.8 2.3 2.3 – 1.3 10.6 Donetsk 49.7 18.9 0.4 1.4 0.3 2.3 27.0 Zhytomyr 18.3 53.1 0.6 12.5 3.5 – 12.0 Zakarpattya 91.2 8.7 – 0.1 – – – Zaporizhzhya 73.0 10.6 1.5 0.5 0.3 4.6 9.5 Ivano-Frankivsk 25.1 68.6 0.2 2.0 3.3 0.8 – Kyiv 74.2 22.0 2.4 1.4 – – – Kirovohrad 54.7 30.3 0.5 10.1 – 2.4 2.0 Luhansk 55.0 40.3 1.9 1.2 – 0.6 1.0 Lviv 56.4 39.5 – 2.3 0.8 – 1.0 Mykolayiv 73.1 14.3 1.0 4.3 – 3.3 4.0 Odesa 91.0 7.4 0.5 1.1 – – – Poltava 79.2 18.8 1.2 0.8 – – – Rivne 54.3 45.2 0.4 0.1 – – – Sumy 77.0 17.3 0.6 5.1 – – – Ternopil 65.4 30.1 – 2.8 0.9 – 0.8 Kharkiv 81.4 11.9 1.8 1.3 0.7 – 2.9 Kherson 60.9 17.7 – – – – 21.4 Khmelnytskiy 62.9 26.4 1.9 6.8 – – 2.0 Cherkasy 43.8 47.1 – 3.0 – 0.4 5.7 Chernivtsi 31.1 57.6 0.1 3.5 – – 7.7 Chernihiv 75.2 19.4 1.2 4.2 – – – City of Kyiv 54.0 0.5 21.6 – 0.3 – 23.6
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Table 3. Arrangement of households’ housing by region, percentage ater supply Central heating Central hot water supply electric boiler Individual heating system W S ewerage Hot water supply B oiler electric B oiler gas double circuit B oiler solid fuel B oiler gas B oiler Central gas B aloon gas E lectric stove floor B athroom Ukraine 36.4 45.2 82.9 82.3 46.9 1.3 19.6 7.8 32.7 11.7 78.8 11.2 5.4 79.1 Vinnytsya 16.7 50.1 62.5 62.2 9.1 1.1 17.4 7.3 29.7 9.4 69.4 23.3 3.1 58.7 Volyn 26.3 45.0 83.6 83.6 63.2 2.3 18.0 14.7 36.8 9.1 62.6 15.6 11.6 78.9 Dnipropetrovsk 39.4 52.9 87.5 86.7 67.3 4.3 21.4 4.9 42.7 14.1 91.0 4.4 0.7 85.3 Donetsk 46.2 35.5 87.3 85.9 13.6 1.1 12.6 4.6 39.5 18.3 72.8 3.3 3.5 83.8 Zhytomyr 21.1 43.9 64.0 63.4 52.8 1.1 20.8 5.1 28.0 10.0 70.1 19.8 3.1 56.9 Zakarpattya – 67.6 94.2 93.0 86.4 0.8 44.0 23.4 27.2 28.1 79.0 17.0 0.2 90.8 Zaporizhzhya 40.9 38.3 84.3 83.5 26.5 1.7 21.0 10.0 37.0 9.5 73.2 17.0 7.5 80.0 Ivano-Frankivsk 7.7 62.8 81.8 81.8 79.2 0.3 47.0 8.1 28.0 9.9 85.8 5.6 3.4 80.0 Kyiv 30.1 66.2 81.4 81.2 26.7 0.1 27.4 10.2 42.4 6.3 93.0 1.8 4.0 80.6 Kirovohrad 13.3 60.8 72.4 69.1 61.7 4.5 22.8 13.6 31.4 9.5 52.9 38.4 5.5 65.4 Luhansk 19.6 68.3 81.4 81.4 – 3.8 21.6 13.8 44.2 8.5 88.3 2.2 2.3 78.5 Lviv 33.6 38.8 87.0 87.0 19.7 0.6 24.4 6.5 18.4 21.3 87.5 3.7 5.0 83.5 Mykolayiv 33.2 52.7 82.9 81.2 11.8 2.8 22.1 6.1 38.4 18.6 76.2 14.4 6.4 79.3 Odesa 39.3 39.8 91.1 90.2 60.1 1.3 7.0 9.4 69.8 7.6 72.0 21.3 5.1 87.0 Poltava 35.2 46.9 79.5 79.3 33.8 0.2 14.0 5.9 24.1 13.2 92.2 4.7 1.5 75.8 Rivne 25.2 48.6 74.7 74.7 62.7 0.3 29.1 6.0 16.2 12.5 67.5 11.6 11.9 71.0 Sumy 34.5 59.5 86.1 84.7 53.8 2.2 13.9 9.7 33.4 14.3 85.7 7.6 5.7 72.1 Ternopil 17.8 69.6 78.7 78.3 9.8 0.1 49.3 9.2 13.8 15.5 88.1 6.0 – 71.9 Kharkiv 52.9 40.7 85.9 85.9 45.7 – 9.0 9.4 18.8 12.4 85.3 5.5 7.5 81.5 Kherson 22.3 45.9 82.4 81.9 48.2 0.8 21.8 9.6 49.2 5.8 58.1 37.7 2.4 79.1 Khmelnytskiy 29.1 44.2 69.0 69.0 22.2 1.0 20.5 5.9 20.2 10.2 76.3 13.4 7.2 67.5 Cherkasy 28.6 54.2 78.8 78.8 70.3 0.7 27.9 5.4 40.1 4.1 74.9 14.0 3.9 75.8 Chernivtsi 18.3 32.4 72.3 72.3 60.1 1.0 23.1 9.0 42.3 16.4 69.3 22.1 0.2 70.8 Chernihiv 27.2 47.5 76.8 75.3 62.8 0.7 20.9 11.8 23.5 10.9 77.3 17.4 1.6 67.6 City of Kyiv 99.4 0.3 99.7 99.7 96.6 – 0.3 0.2 14.7 2.3 79.8 0.3 19.8 99.7
Children in Urban and Rural areas
Ukraine is the 89th most urbanized country in the world with an urban population share of 69 per cent.
Two-thirds of Ukrainian children (66%) live in cities, and a third (34%) live in rural areas. Living in cities offers children a number of advantages including access to urban schools, health care facilities and cultural institutions, children’s playgrounds. At the same 64.7 68,9 51.8 time, as cities grow in size, costs of 47.1 61.6 35.3 31,1 48.2 52.9 38.4 Chernihiv Sumy living there also increase. These are Volyn Rivne 58.9 Kyiv 41.1 100.0 80.8 both monetary (cost of own or rented 61.9 86.9 60.5 56.8 Zhytomyr – 19.2 housing, prices and so on) and non- 38.1 13.1 39.5 45.0 43.2 City of Kharkiv 56.4 Poltava Luhansk monetary (pollution, traffic jams, and Lviv 55.0 Khmelnytskiy Kyiv 43.8 43.6 83.8 Ternopil 51.0 63.0 90.7 crime) aspects. Inequality in providing 56.2 Cherkasy 16.2 Ivano- 49.0 37.0 Dnipropetrovsk 9.3 health care and education services 36.8 Frankivsk 42.8 Vinnytsya Kirovohrad Donetsk 63.2 57.2 77.1 to children are most striking in rural 68.2 Zakarpattya Chernivtsi 66.6 22.9 31.8 areas; an infrastructure and services 61.1 Zaporizhzhya 33.4 Mykolayiv fail to keep up children’s basic needs Odesa 38.9 are not fully met. Kherson 69.1 30.9 Autonomous Republic of Crimea Regions at risk: Urban Ukraine Zakarpattya, Chernivtsi, Rural Ternopil, Rivne, Vinnytsya. Figure 9. Population in urban/rural areas of Ukraine by region, percentage for every child, love Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | unicef.org.ua 7 may, 2020 Vulnerability: Regional Aspects
Child Protection
The current child protection system in Ukraine has several limitations often failing to address key challenges faced by children and families.
Children in Alternative care: Despite the ongoing efforts to prevent family separation and institutionalization, the number of children separated from their families and placed in various child care institutions remains high (around 100,000 in 2020), whereas the alternative family-oriented care systems are still insufficiently developed and the national “gatekeeping” mechanisms are insufficient. Community- based services for vulnerable children and their families are now being put in place, but still face major social and financial barriers to scale-up. An increasing proportion of children in residential care institutions have disabilities.
Protecting children from violence, including gender-based violence (GBV): Violence, abuse and exploitation have devastating impact on children. threatening their lives and physical health, as well as emotional well-being and future prospects. In Ukraine, the absence of synergy of actions from health, education, social, legal and other services often affects the work in prevention, early identification and response to violence cases. In addition, Ukraine lacks adequate referral mechanisms for specialized services, especially for children subjected to violence, sexual exploitation or gender-based violence.
Justice for Children: Improvements in justice for children has led to a sharp reduction Regions at risk: in the number of children remanded to judicial care. Also, in the past 3 years ,Ukraine Donetsk, Luhansk, established a cross -sectoral coordination mechanism for elaboration of a comprehensive Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Justice for Children (J4C)system, including development of a Law on Justice for Children, Ivano-Frankivsk, system of restorative justice for juveniles, etc. However, there is still a great need to adjust Kyiv oblast and the justice system in order to meet the needs and protect the rights of child victims and Kyiv city, Vinnytsya. witnesses, as well as other children who come into the contact with the law.
Children in Alternative Care
Table 4. Children in other types of alternative care by region, absolute number
Orphan children and children Family-type small-group homes for children Foster families deprived of parental care under foster care, guardianship, Number of family-type Number of children, Number of families, Number of children, family-type small-group homes small-group homes, units persons units persons Ukraine 49 714 1 153 7 869 3 347 6 187 Vinnytsya 1 633 57 387 134 247 Volyn 1 100 26 168 74 142 Dnipropetrovsk 5 975 172 1 243 348 629 Donetsk 3 718 62 416 180 305 Zhytomyr 2 204 41 268 171 334 Zakarpattya 1 450 46 279 49 93 Zaporizhzhya 2 679 47 317 188 394 Ivano-Frankivsk 1 029 11 78 81 136 Kyiv 2 532 64 410 98 193 Kirovohrad 2 033 56 384 181 337 Luhansk 1 037 21 151 79 146 Lviv 1 727 36 257 84 134 Mykolayiv 1 935 45 289 147 273 Odesa 3 935 45 297 211 390 Poltava 1 486 38 244 129 231 Rivne 1 315 27 173 55 115 Sumy 1 439 31 204 143 274 Ternopil 682 12 71 108 167 Kharkiv 3 025 109 805 272 525 Kherson 1 934 69 460 116 263 Khmelnytskiy 1 291 23 160 104 185 Cherkasy 1526 47 329 115 211 Chernivtsi 709 15 99 51 92 Chernihiv 1357 27 181 198 330 City of Kyiv 1963 26 199 31 41
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Children in residential care institutions
2 993 2 763 4 494 2 097 Chernihiv 3 278 Sumy Volyn Rivne 2 488 Kyiv Zhytomyr 6 078 6 579 6 139 4 117 1 560 3 717 City of Kharkiv Lviv 2 478 Kyiv Poltava Luhansk Khmelnytskiy 3 353 Ternopil 3 649 Cherkasy 9 045 3 323 3 254 3 592 Ivano- Dnipropetrovsk Frankivsk Vinnytsya Kirovohrad Donetsk 3 623 1 960 7 123 Zakarpattya Chernivtsi 4 680 3 945 Zaporizhzhya Mykolayiv 3 589 Odesa Kherson 99 917 Autonomous Ukraine Republic of Crimea
Figure 10. Children (0-17 years) in residential care institutions by region, absolute number
Ternopil oblast: 18 residential care institutions with a total number of children – 1,414, including: MoEd – 15 RCI (1,335 children), MoH –1 RCI (36 children), MoSP – 1 RCI (12 children) and 1 Center of social and psychological rehabilitation (31 children) Kyiv oblast: 12 residential care institutions with a total number of children – 1,710, including: MoEd – 4 RCI (1,175 children), MoH – 1 RCI (156 children), MoSP – 1 RCI (75 children) and 6 Centers of social and psychological rehabilitation (304 children) Kyiv city: 8 residential care institutions with a total number of children – 5,066, including: MoEd – 2 RCI (4,737 children), MoH – 2 RCI (133 children), MoSP – 2 RCI (131 children) and 2 Centers of social and psychological rehabilitation (66 children) Vinnitsa oblast: 12 residential care institutions with a total number of children – 1,828 at the beginning of the year including: MoEd – 6 RCI (1,605 children), MoH – 2 RCI (126 children), MoSP – 2 RCI (37 children) and 2 Centers of social and psychological rehabilitation (60 children) Chernivtsi oblast: residential care institutions with a total number of children – , including: RCI residential care institutions 6 926 MoEd Minstry of Education and Science MoEd – 3 RCI (861 children), MoH – 1 baby homes (32 children), MoSP – 1 RCI of Ukraine (11 children) and 1 Center of social and psychological rehabilitation (22 children) MoH Ministry of Health of Ukraine MoSP Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk: residential care institutions with total number of children – , including: Criteria: number of COVID-19 cases in region, 6 1,939 number of COVID-19 cases among children, MoEd – 1 RCI (1829 children), MoH –1 RCI (27 children), MoSP – 2 RCI (53 children) number of RCI, number of children in RCI. and 2 Centers of social and psychological rehabilitation (30 children)
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Children with disabilities
1 677 375 18 297 715 267 1 075 561 267 632 Chernihiv 53 98 460 Sumy 6 298 Kyiv Volyn Rivne 76 936 Ukraine Zhytomyr 699 358 934 530 442 573 425 646 141 129 603 433 230 Kharkiv Lviv City of Kyiv 183 Poltava Luhansk 240 340 825 Khmelnytskiy Cherkasy Ternopil 3 025 365 235 2 302 233 232 Ivano- Dnipropetrovsk Kirovohrad 685 68 Frankivsk Vinnytsya 70 68 179 279 Donetsk 79 509 Zakarpattya 193 Chernivtsi 412 279 72 Zaporizhzhya 349 Mykolayiv 38 Odesa Kherson
Autonomous Republic of Number of children with disabilities Crimea (with official disability status) Number of children with disabilities, living in families in difficult life circumstances
Figure 12. Children with disabilities by region, absolute number
Social Protection / Child Protection Capacity at local level
33 1 570 129 46 55 40 58 Chernihiv 400 36 2 398 207 Sumy Volyn Rivne 250 37 198 Ukraine Zhytomyr 41 32 21 236 3 170 49 59 28 57 Kyiv 200 53 Kharkiv Lviv 60 Poltava Luhansk 136 123 46 Khmelnytskiy Cherkasy Ternopil 40 11 115 41 50 22 Ivano- Dnipropetrovsk Kirovohrad 79 12 Frankivsk Vinnytsya 35 6 58 107 Donetsk 3 92 Zakarpattya 89 Chernivtsi 29 194 32 Zaporizhzhya 26 Mykolayiv 124 Odesa Kherson
Autonomous Republic of Crimea Number of Social Workers in hromadas (working with families ) Number of Children Affairs Services
Figure 13. Social Workers working with families and Children Affairs Services by region, absolute number
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Children in the Сonflict Affected Regions
Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are affected by the armed conflict started in 2014.
Active hostilities resulted in considerable human (over 13,000 persons) and economic losses, and caused large-scale internal displacement (about 1.4 million people, among them 197,672 - children). Due to the military conflict, Donetsk and Luhansk Regions lost large parts of their human and material resources. The problems were intensified by such negative factors as destruction of the housing, social infrastructure, and life-support systems; difficulties with supplying the children with the necessary municipal services, medical care, social and educational services. Ceasefire violations hindered access to safe drinking water for 3.7 million people in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and cut services for 3.0 million people. Shelling or other conflict- related problems directly affected water and sanitation systems 135 times in 2019. Due to its location right on the ‘contact line’, one of the facilities hardest hit by the conflict is the Donetsk Filter Station; it officially supplies water to 345,000 people in Donetsk Oblast.
The armed conflict continues to jeopardize physical and mental well-being of children, especially for those living within 20 kilometres of the ‘contact line’. In most settlements within 5 kilometres of the ‘contact line’, children are exposed to danger from shelling. Mines and other explosive remnants of war also pose risks to children living along the ‘contact line’. The danger caused by anti-personnel mines is highest in rural areas within 3 kilometres of the ‘contact line’. Another severe problem in the east of the country is danger for children in home settings. Children are often unaware of mine Regions at risk: risk, despite mines and other explosive remnants of war being the largest Donetsk and Luhansk. cause of conflict-related death or injury among children.
1 390 696 2 025 12 656 779 Chernihiv Sumy Volyn Rivne 1 538 Kyiv Zhytomyr 27 725 17 774 2 489 3 732 21 722 1 402 City of Kharkiv Lviv 497 Kyiv Poltava Luhansk Khmelnytskiy 2 278 Ternopil 914 2 201 Cherkasy 12 122 1 320 62 702 Ivano- Vinnytsya Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Frankivsk Kirovohrad 816 637 7 902 Zakarpattya Chernivtsi 1 967 7 804 Zaporizhzhya Mykolayiv 2 584 Odesa Kherson 197 672 Autonomous Ukraine Republic of Crimea
Figure 14. Internally displaced children in Ukraine by region, persons for every child, love Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | unicef.org.ua 11 may, 2020 Vulnerability: Regional Aspects
Annex 1. Decentralization
Ukraine started decentralization in 2014. As of April 2020 – 1,029 amalgamated territorial hromadas (ATH) have been established in Ukraine (37% of the total number of local councils, accounting for 38% of the area of Ukraine and about 69% of its population).
The economic, educational, cultural, sports development 4 7 of the Ukrainian cities, urban- 6 13 Chernihiv Sumy type settlements and villages Volyn 1 depends to a large extent on Rivne 20 Zhytomyr 15 21 Kyiv 16 12 the youth – responsible and 3 Kharkiv Lviv 10 17 Poltava Luhansk involved in decision making. In Khmelnytskiy Ternopil Cherkasy 14 2 Ukraine there are currently more 22 24 8 Dnipropetrovsk Ivano- Vinnytsya than 11.5 million young people Frankivsk Kirovohrad Donetsk 23 9 between 14 and 35 years of age 11 5 Zakarpattya Chernivtsi (27% of the population). The 19 Mykolayiv Zaporizhzhya issues of construction, repair Odesa 18 or reconstruction of schools, Kherson
hospitals, roads in hromadas are of Autonomous a high priority, but implementation Ranking 1-5 Republic of Crimea of these infrastructure projects Ranking 6-19 should be based around a central Ranking at risk goal – whom they are intended for and who will give them a sense of Figure 15. Decentralization in Ukraine by region, ranking information of capable purpose. hromadas, 2019
Criteria: Population of AHs, COS (thousand people); Area of AHs, COS; Number of Regions at risk: territorial hromadas, which haven’t amalgamated; Rayons not covered by amalgamation, Kyiv oblast, Lviv, Vinnytsya, accession; Number of AHs with the population of less than 5 thousand people; Cities of Zakarpattya, Kirovohrad. oblast significance were accession occurred; Perspective plans coverage (when calculating the ranking according to the parameters “Population of capable hromadas (AHs, COS)”, “Area of capable hromadas”, “Number of hromadas, which haven’t amalgamated or accessed”, the data for the cities of oblast significance where the accession has not occurred was also taken into account. AH – amalgamated hromada COS – cities of oblast significance
are ready to personally engage 52% in hromadas’ initiatives do not experience change for the youth 47% after hromadas’ establishment believe that local authorities do not consider 35% their opinions when making decisions
Figure 16. Results of an all-Ukrainian sociological survey “Youth of Ukraine”, percentage of young people living in ATHs
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Annex 2. Monitoring of Regional Development2
Data of annual monitoring according to the approved by the Government of Ukraine Methodology
Table 5. Rating of Regions Table 6. Rating of Regions by Table 7. Rating of Regions by Human Development the Ratio of the Average Wage by Regional Development Index to the Minimum Wage, times Index
Region Rating Region Rating Region Rating City of Kyiv 1 City of Kyiv 3.64 City of Kyiv 0.87 Kyiv 2 Donetsk 2.60 Chernivtsi 0.71 Dnipropetrovsk 3 Kyiv 2.44 Ivano-Frankivsk 0.71 Mykolayiv 4 Dnipropetrovsk 2.38 Zakarpattya 0.70 Vinnytsya 5 Zaporizhzhya 2.34 Kharkiv 0.69 Lviv 6 Poltava 2.25 Lviv 0.69 Kirovohrad 7 Mykolayiv 2.19 Ternopil 0.66 Poltava 8 Zakarpattya 2.17 Poltava 0.66 Kharkiv 9 Lviv 2.15 Vinnytsya 0.65 Rivne 10 Odesa 2.15 Mykolayiv 0.64 Zhytomyr 11 Vinnytsya 2.10 Volyn 0.64 Odesa 12 Kharkiv 2.06 Zaporizhzhya 0.64 Kherson 13 Ivano-Frankivsk 2.03 Kyiv 0.63 Zaporizhzhya 14 Rivne 2.01 Odesa 0.63 Chernihiv 15 Cherkasy 2.01 Sumy 0.62 Ivano-Frankivsk 16 Zhytomyr 1.98 Khmelnytskiy 0.61 Cherkasy 17 Luhansk 1.98 Dnipropetrovsk 0.61 Khmelnytskiy 18 Volyn 1.97 Cherkasy 0.61 Chernivtsi 19 Sumy 1.97 Donetsk — Donetsk 20 Khmelnytskiy 1.97 Luhansk — Volyn 21 Kirovohrad 1.93 Chernihiv 0.61 Ternopil 22 Kherson 1.90 Rivne 0.61 Sumy 23 Chernivtsi 1.88 Kirovohrad 0.59 Zakarpattya 24 Chernihiv 1.88 Zhytomyr 0.59 Luhansk 25 Ternopil 1.87 Kherson 0.59 Ukraine 0.7503 Ukraine 2.38 Ukraine 0.62
2 https://www.minregion.gov.ua/napryamki-diyalnosti/regional-dev/derzhavna-rehional-na-polityka/monitorynh/monitorynh-monitorynh 3 http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/UKR for every child, love Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | unicef.org.ua 13 EU-Ukraine Association Agreement Title V Title V Title III Title V Title V Economic and Sectoral Economic and Sectoral Justice, Freedom Economic and Sectoral Economic and Sectoral Cooperation Cooperation and Security Cooperation Cooperation Ch. 21, 22 Ch. 23 Ch. 14 Ch. 6 Ch. 21, 24, 25, 26
Every child Every child Every child Every child lives in Every child survives and learns is protected a safe and clean has an equitable thrives from violence environment chance in life and exploitation
SDG 2 SDG 4 SDG 5 Goal 11 SDG 1
SDG 3 SDG 8 SDG 5
SDG 16 SDG 10 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Art. 6, 24 Art. 28, 29 Art. 19, 34-38 Art. 24 Art. 2, 12, 23, 26, 30
Sources: the State Statistics Service of Ukraine (poverty data calculated based United Nations Children’s on the data from the Household Budget Survey conducted by the State Fund Office in Ukraine Statistics Service of Ukraine), SP Ukrvaktsyna of the Ministry of Health Address: 28 Instytutska Str, of Ukraine, the Public Health Centre, the Ministry of Education and 01021 Kyiv, Ukraine Science of Ukraine, National Report on the quality of drinking water Telephone: +38 044 521 01 25 and drinking water supply situation in Ukraine, the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, all-Ukrainian sociological study “Youth of Ukraine”, Fax: +38 044 230 2506 the Ministry of communities and territories development of Ukraine Email: [email protected] (Monitoring of Human Development Index and Monitoring of Regional Development), site Decentralization (decentralization.gov.ua). Follow us:
Data exclude the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and a part of temporarily occupied territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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