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A residential building in Irpin that was heavily damaged at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. IOM and its mobile teams are working tirelessly to support families in the Region with renovation works. Photo: IOM Ukraine
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 5,688,107 Humanitarian services delivered since 24 February 2022
 > 50 Network of IOM implementing partners
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 As part of its winterization programme, supporting IDPs and affected people meet their basic needs during winter, IOM delivered non-food items (NFI) to the Ukrainian Government's "Invincibility Points“, locations providing essential support such as warmth, water, light, and mobile connection during power outages, as well as to collective centres. IOM continued to distribute core NFIs through inter-agency convoys, implementing partners, and through its Common Pipeline partners. IOM also supported the subway in Kharkiv, which is used by people seeking safety during shelling, with chairs, blankets, and mattresses. IOM has reached 51,178 people with bedding kits and high-thermal blankets as part of winterization efforts.
 During the last two weeks, 6,366 displaced people were reached by IOM Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) in collective centers in Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, and Vinnytsia regions. In total, 474 items were distributed, including partitions, kettles, heaters, stoves, microwaves, freezers, kitchen sinks, mixers, induction cookers, and clothes drying racks. As part of its 2022/2023 winterization programme, IOM assisted 30 collective centres with cash for winterization with identification for 115 more sites ongoing.
 IOM’s solid fuel distribution has reached 449 families in Kherson Region. To enable people in frontline areas to repair their damaged homes, IOM distributed 900 Emergency Shelter Kits in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions. IOM completed the repair of 10 collective sites, bringing the number of collective centres supported with light repairs to 222, with another 67 supported with medium- and heavy repairs. As part of its winterization assistance, IOM has conducted repairs and insulation works in a total of 1,545 private houses and distributed 13,488 oil-filled electric heaters.
 Through its implementing partner, IOM assessed 23 health facilities in Kherson Region for rehabilitation needs, identifying moderate to severe damage in 43% of them and larger destructions in 17%. IOM is planning to rehabilitate doors, heating pumps, windows, roofs, and walls, and install generators in facilities in Kyselivka, Myrolubivka, and Posad-Pokrovske. IOM’s mobile clinics provided 3,561 people (891 men; 2,670 women) with primary health care services, and 2,403 people (647 men; 1,756 women) with specialized consultations during the reporting period. As part of winterization efforts, IOM also provided 20 heaters and 300 blankets to support the thermal comfort of service providers and people visiting mobile clinics.
 Registration for multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) continues in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. To date, IOM has reached 235,905 people with multi-purpose cash that provides vulnerable people the flexibility to meet their basic needs. IOM, as co-chair of the Cash Working Group (CWG) Targeting Task Team (TT1), has been working to strengthen the Rapid MPCA targeting criteria. IOM is working on the vulnerability analysis which will inform the CWG targeting framework.
 IOM held a meeting of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in the Dnipro Hub. IOM co-chairs the working subgroup, involving organizations that provide MHPSS services in eastern regions of Ukraine, including Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv. The meeting served as an interagency platform for coordinating services and avoiding duplication between partners.
 IOM continued providing comprehensive protection services in 18 regions. This includes direct protection assistance to people whose rights were violated due to the war, including survivors of human trafficking, exploitation, or abuse, as well as outreach and awareness-raising activities. IOM consultations are carried out through the National Toll-Free Counter-Trafficking and Migrant Advice Hotline 527, with a total of 17,372 consultations since January 2023. To enhance the capacity of partners, IOM conducted a counter-trafficking training for 12 participants working on the Governmental Hotline 1547, which provides informational, psychological, and legal consultations.
 IOM WASH provided support to various water utilities (vodokanal) in Kyiv, Zakarpattia, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyy, Zhythomyr, Vinnytsia, and Chernivtsi regions, by procuring and delivering generators, specialized equipment for water treatment, as well as by completing the drilling of a borehole for the Mykolaiv Regional Blood bank, that will supply safe water necessary to run the medical facility. IOM continued to support internally displaced and host communities in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, Donetsk, and Zakarpattia regions, distributing personal hygiene items. IOM is also providing winterization support to municipal and district heating facilities with specialized equipment and machinery, and to collective centers with solid fuel boilers.
 IOM delivered one 160kW diesel generator to Reni Border Crossing Point (BCP) in Odesa Region to facilitate safe and efficient cross-border movement of persons and goods by supporting critical border and customs control procedures during power outages. The generator enhances the resilience of this important trade and mobility corridor between Ukraine, Moldova, and the EU and supports the mobility of travelers and goods including essential commodities such as grain, other agricultural products, humanitarian aid and fuel, in the context of the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes. To date, IOM has provided 11 BCPs with winterization support and heating measures, while assistance for four more is planned.
 IOM Transition & Recovery (T&R) held a Conference on Reparations to present the preliminary framework for reparations developed in coordination with Government partners. The framework document, shared with the Government of Ukraine, will serve to guide policy- and law-making processes on reparations. The framework is designed to outline the eligibility criteria, types and categories of victims and survivors, institutional setup, roadmap toward delivery of reparations, avenues for financing, and more.
 IOM DTM published Round 12 of the Internal Displacement Report. In addition to the core survey modules, the study offers detailed data on the household income of the displaced population and the envisaged usage of financial assistance. This report also provides key insights related to winterization, including the adequacy of current shelter, most pressing needs, and the average monthly expenditure on utilities and other heating costs. IOM DTM also published Round 20 of the Area Baseline Assessment, which provides data on the distribution of all registered IDPs in Ukraine.
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Inna fled from Luhansk to Irpin, Kyiv Region, when the armed conflict broke out in 2014 in east Ukraine. In Iprin she found not only peace and safety for her family, but also a job and friends. In early 2022, Inna found herself experiencing war again. For three weeks she hid in her basement considering scarce supplies of food and medicine, as the town was cut off.
“We had to get through this terrible time. But when the Russian forces left the town, it was even harder to face the consequences of the war. All the destruction, realizing so much from our life was ruined. We thought we would never cope with that on our own,” shared Inna.
After weeks of deadly shelling and battles, the house was left in a critical state – the roof was badly damaged by a blast wave and shrapnel, making the house uninhabitable for the family.
To support families whose houses were damaged by the war, IOM has been conducting repair works across the heavily affected Kyiv and Chernihiv regions since September 2022. In Irpin, 203 homes, including Inna’s, were rehabilitated, helping people to stay warm and in dignified living conditions during the winter. Mobile teams continue to help families who have to rely on humanitarian support to survive winter, replacing windows and entrance doors, repairing roofs, heating, water and electrical systems in damaged houses.
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