Maria Moseychuk, participant of the TalentA Project/Valentyn Kuzan UNFPA UKRAINE AnnuaL REPORT 2020 ZERO unmet need for family planning ZERO maternal mortality ZERO tolerance to MOVING TOWARDS THREE ZEROS: TOWARDS MOVING gender-based violence 2 CONTENTS 4 Foreword 7 Sustainable development goals 8 Key data and annual outcomes 18 Youth Empowerment Programme 36 Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment Programme 50 Programme on combating and preventing gender-based violence 64 Sexual and reproductive health 70 Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic 80 Partnerships 94 Communications and campaigns 110 Financial results 111 Donors and partners 113 Studies and publications 116 Acknowledgements 3 FOREWORD Saying that 2020 was a year like no other Besides COVID-19 and its harm too many would be an understatement. The World – spheres of life, we also have successes to and Ukraine – was unexpectedly hit by the celebrate: In 2020 Ukraine made several COVID-19 pandemic in a way that was important steps in combating GBV and in completely unprecedented, testing the limits building a comprehensive response system. of our capacity to cope with uncertainty, both The President of Ukraine signed a Decree that individually and collectively. At the moment calls for the immediate implementation of of writing these words, we are still immersed measures to ensure the protection of victims in the response to the Pandemic, but with of violence and for strengthening prevention Vaccination becoming available to more programmes. We took the partnership with and more countries we can now hope for the Ministry of Interior to a higher level, a solution to it. and set up a new national call-center for victims and survivors of gender-based and But the effects will be long lasting. The domestic violence and we engaged with and Pandemic revealed even further the essential roles that women play in society: as political mobilized some of the most famous Ukrainian leaders, as entrepreneurs, as frontline celebrities to raise social awareness about healthcare workers, as trusted community it. 2020 also witnessed key changes in the leaders. In sum, as the basis of the social way men engage in household chores and in fabric. But it also revealed the fragility of a the caretaking of children: 4 Tatohubs were social construct that depends on women opened and 31 private companies joined performing multiple and often underpaid, the Declaration for Gender Equality and invisible roles. And it also put women and against GBV. Youth Empowerment initiatives girls at higher risk of suffering violence, expanded to 7 new cities that agreed to start limiting their bodily autonomy and their investing in youth well-being and to work on access to basic public services such as health, youth friendly policies, to preserve and retain education and social protection. its human capital. 4 Jaime Nadal, UNFPA Representative in Ukraine/Andriy Krepkykh 5 Likewise, promising developments happened human rights and access to services for all in the education sphere, with steps towards of them, strengthening social resilience and the inclusion of comprehensive sexuality contributing, in sum, to setting the grounds education taking place. for building forward a better society and a better World. In sum, 2020 was a year marked by our resolve to continue providing UNFPA In closing, let me express our utmost support and services to Ukraine: to Ukrainian gratitude to each public and private partner women and girls, men and boys, youth, and donors, to our sister United Nations persons with disabilities and older persons, agencies, and to everyone who made leaving no one behind in these difficult our work possible and supported our circumstances. Together with international, transformative agenda. national and local partners we devised new and innovative solutions that enabled us to support and implement a rights-based UNFPA Representative in Ukraine agenda geared towards the fulfilment of Jaime Nadal 6 GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 7 KEY DATA AND annuaL OUTCOMES In 2020, a network of Together with the new trainers GBV specialised services National Police of Ukraine, 62 of the PROskills provided the necessary we distributed of the Future Programme assistance to from the Donetsk, 100,000 Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia 47,387 security plans and contact Oblasts were trained. survivors. information posters for GBV survivors. TatoHubs were new cities – 2020 marked the end of a 4 opened in Vinnytsia, 7 Mariupol, Melitopol, five-year implementation Odesa, Kramatorsk and Kherson, Lutsk, Ternopil, of the Pact for Youth Troitska ATC. Dnipro, and Odesa – initiative, which brought people joined the determination together 357 took part of the Youth Well-Being employers in two trainings and Index. More than 149 that jointly six webinars on the created more than formation of responsible 3,000 parenthood and the young people took part 45,000 involvement of men in it. in the surveys. jobs for young people. 8 girls For the first time, the The number of 1,374 took national Break the Circle companies that signed part in the activities information campaign the Declaration to encouraging to choose brought together support SDGs 5 and a profession in STEM- Ukrainian celebrities – 8, which implement industries: STEM challenge Masha Efrosinina, corporate policies on ‘Girls Change the World’, MONATIK, Yulia Sanina, gender equality and online marathon to mark Olia Poliakova, Taras response to domestic the Girls in ICT Day, STEM Topolia, Alyosha – in a violence, doubled. hackathon ‘Hack4Good: call to Ukrainian society Currently, How to Interest Girls in to get out of the circle of private Technology’, the National violence. The video was 31 companies Girls in Technology Day, watched by joined the Corporate STEM Camp for Girls, million Alliance. STEM StartUP Fem Lab. 3.3 people. mobile clinics Personal protective 2 provided vital medical 1,940 equipment and care and/or referred hygiene kits for female disinfectants for doctors and medical staff state geriatric 7,964 involved in responding 15 facilities in 6 residents of 58 remote to COVID-19 in 6 Oblasts Oblasts most affected settlements and areas most affected by the by the pandemic were along the contact line pandemic were procured procured and distributed. in the East of Ukraine to and distributed. specialized services. 9 First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska opens10 the Forum/Andriy Krepkykh INTERNATIONAL FORUM UKRAINE ON THE WaY TO OVERCOMING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE In February 2020, UNFPA held an international forum ‘Ukraine is on Track for Combating Domestic and Gender-Based Violence’, which brought together representatives of the Government, civil society and the international community. The Forum presented main results of 5 years of work on building a national system for combating violence and discussed Ukraine’s priorities in eradicating violence by 2030. 11 ONLINE FORUm “REGISTER- BASED CENSUS IN UKRAINE: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, ROAD AHEAd” In 2020 UNFPA Ukraine and Statistics Ukraine private sector and civil society, as well as have jointly held an international web forum prominent experts from the UN system, Euro- to launch a wide discussion regarding the fea- stat and countries that already use adminis- sibility of organizing a register-based popula- trative records for demographic censuses or tion census in Ukraine in the 2030 round of are developing projects in this area (Estonia, population and housing censuses. The forum Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, comprised 4 technical webinars dedicated to Spain and the UK). All forum events have register-based census concepts, instruments been streamed online via Zoom and Face- and tools, international experiences and book platforms, which ensured attendance practices from across Europe, the status quo of roughly 2,000 participants at each event. of Ukraine with regard to administrative data, The forum concluded with establishing as well as a concluding conference with high an international partnership between the political participation that focused on the UN Government of Ukraine, Statistics Ukraine, and EU standards and norms for register- UNFPA, UNECE and leading international based censuses and outlining the transition census experts to develop a roadmap for of Ukraine towards a register-based census. Ukraine to transition from a traditional to a The forum gathered government officials, register-based census for the 2030 round statisticians, data producers and administra- of censuses, and signing a respective joint tors, researchers, representatives of the statement. 12 13 NATIONAL STUDY ‘AWARENESS AND ATTITUDES OF TEachERS AND paRENTS TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE SEXuaLITY EDUCATION’ In 2020, UNFPA conducted a study ‘Aware- ness and attitudes of teachers and parents toward comprehensive sexuality education’. The results of the study were presented at the Conference ‘Implementation of compre- hensive sexuality education and the princi- ples of gender equality: prospects in Ukraine in the 21st century’, held in partnership and with participation of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) of Ukraine, Embassy of ment the Concept of Comprehensive Sexual- Finland, UNFPA’s Regional Office for Eastern ity Education of Children and Youth in Ukraine Europe and Central Asia, national advocates taking into account the criteria proposed by and representatives of non-governmental the Conference participants, and to consider organisations working in the area of sexual the possibility of including in the Professional and reproductive