NAME OF PROJECT Ensuring Water Security of Communities Living along the Contact Line in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts PROJECT BUDGET: €14.3 million ($16.87 million) PROJECT LOCATIONS: Luhansk oblast: Popasnianski, Novoaidarskyi and SUPPORTED BY KfW Development Bank Stanychno-Luhanskyi districts TARGET POPULATION: 2,450,000 people Donetsk oblast: Slovyanskyi, Bakhmutskyi, Kostian- tynivskyi, Pokrovskyi, Mariinskyi, Volnovaskyi, Volodarskyi DURATION OF PROJECT: 24 months and Yasynovatskyi districts Towns of Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Toretsk, Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk, Mariupol, Selidove and Novohrodivka BACKGROUND THE PROJECT GOAL is to support the reliable The conflict in Eastern Ukraine is aecting access to essen- provision of adequate water, sanitation services and hygiene tial and basic services for millions of people living across the promotion for displaced persons and host communities region. Vital facilities located along the contact line, such as living in conflict-aected Donetsk and Luhansk regions. water and electricity infrastructure, frequently suer from shelling and fighting. Services are regularly interrupted, TARGET GROUPS posing direct security threats to the communities in Donetsk The project will ensure uninterrupted access to safe drinking and Luhansk oblasts. water and hygiene for the most vulnerable children, women Damage to the water network is further straining the already and men aected by the conflict in Donetsk and Luhansk weakened system, following years of limited maintenance oblasts. The project will be implemented in partnership with and budget constraints. Along with widespread humanitarian primary and secondary waster providers as well as village support to specific repairs, upgrades to make the network and town councils in 15 administrative districts along the more ecient and eective are critical for the immediate and contact line. long-term benefit of families across the region. Key targets Key activities Targeted beneficiaries Support primary water Provision of chemicals and materials for water quality 2,040,000 providers (40% of funding) improvement; people Repair and rehabilitation of water treatment plants/filter stations. Support secondary Managerial, financial and engineering risk assessments 540,000 water providers of operations; priority or emergency repair works; people (vodokanals) Capacity building for vodokanals on financial and operational management of water utilities. Improve resilience of Detailed assessment of water supplies for small towns 380,000 communities through and villages along the contact line; people access to rehabilitated Development of the list of prioritized water interventions, water supply based on consultation with communities and village councils, taking into consideration their resource commitments; Construction and rehabilitation of wells/boreholes based on community plans to create a more resilient decentralized water system; Repair and rehabilitation of local water supply networks based on community plans to create a more resilient decentralized water system; Icreasing water security at key institutions in support of community plans but implemented, operated and maintained through line ministries. Secure provision of the Development, jointly with village and town councils, 220,000 emergency drinking water of the contingency arrangements for the emergency people for children and families supply of drinking water; when their usual supply fails Water trucking, including the provision of storages and standpipes; Distribution of water storage containers and chemicals for safe storage and handling of drinking water; Support the most Providing support for the most vulnerable to access 100,000 vulnerable families and basic gender-sensitive sanitation and hygiene supplies; people children to practice hygienic behavior Strengthening knowledge of basic hygiene practices among the most vulnerable communities. .