Building capacities for an inclusive and resilient urban recovery in Ukraine

The training program was aimed at strengthening the institutional and professional capacity of eight Ukrainian municipalities in the field of inclusive and sustainable recovery. It was aimed at providing multidisciplinary municipal teams with practical knowledge and tools to implement strategic spatial planning documents, in particular, the Concepts of Integrated Development and Integrated Recovery Programs developed by the UN-Habitat Ukraine Urban Lab team in cooperation with partners.
The program was attended by 95 representatives from communities in Kyiv, Lviv and Poltava oblasts: specialists responsible for spatial planning, recovery, local economic development, architecture, social policy and management. Over the course of four months, they completed a blended learning program that included seven online sessions and two offline workshops. The format combined theoretical blocks with practical exercises, work with real cases, and modeling scenarios for implementing solutions in the local context. The teams also received mentoring support.
The program resulted in action plans for the implementation of the developed spatial documents, adapted to their specific needs and resources, as well as the development of a pilot project from the community's portfolio. This was a logical continuation of UN-Habitat Ukraine Urban Lab's work on strategic documents and the basis for the next steps towards implementing spatial development solutions. In addition, the program provided an opportunity for deep interagency cooperation within municipalities, strengthened team dynamics and became a space for sharing experiences between communities. This paved the way for the formation of sustainable partnerships and became an important contribution to the practice of implementing an inclusive and sustainable approach to recovery in Ukraine.
Project team: Margo Didichenko, Anastasia Kaluhina, Fulco Treffers, Albina Chasnyk, Elina Polianska, Sofiia Bondar, Dmytro Matviishyn, Maria Smirnova, Alevtyna Drazhenko, Yurii Hranovsky, Maria Gryshchenko, Diana Sidko, Margarita Zharova, Uliana
The project is led by UN-Habitat and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of the Federal Republic of Germany.