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UKRAINE: Shelter/NFI Cluster Factsheet No 27 (July 2017)

Title
UKRAINE: Shelter/NFI Cluster Factsheet No 27 (July 2017)
Publisher
Kostyantyn Dmytrenko
Date
Type
Information Management
Source
Shelter Cluster
Response
Language
English
Tags
Situation Report Housing, Land, and Property Rights Winterization Collective Centres Guidance
Description

 - Winterization Recommendations 2017-2018: The Ukraine Shelter/NFI
Cluster has published its new Recommendations on Winterization. The key
priority for this winterization response is providing access to heating with
between 23,464 and 30,270 households requiring access to solid fuel on both
sides of the contact line. IDPs continue to face strenuous coping mechanisms
as the prices of utilities have risen by 45% in Donetsk GCA and by 36% in
Luhansk GCA since the beginning of the crisis. The Cluster also collaborated
with the Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster in the publication of the
guidelines in order to brainstorm ideas for how to stimulate recovery and find
alternative mechanisms for providing heating and insulation during the winter
months. Insulation and community infrastructure activities are also encouraged
as key measures to improve the resilience of many homes in the Donbass.
 - Collective Centre Monitoring Update: The latest information on the situation
in Collective Centres is now available in ENG, RUS, and UKR. Since the Cluster’s
last monitoring in May 2016, 19 Collective Centres closed. 5,999 IDPs are now
residing in Collective Centres in Government Controlled Areas of Ukraine. 31%
of Collective Centres could be deemed to have unsatisfactory living conditions.
29% of IDPs are facing the risk of eviction from the Collective Centre.
 - Translation of Guidance on Tenure: As a support to the issue of Housing,
Land, and Property, the Shelter Cluster in Ukraine translated two guidance
documents published by the Norwegian Refugee Council into Russian and
Ukrainian so that stakeholders in Ukraine could better learn how to mainstream
HLP concepts into their programming.
 - Field visits in Avdiivka: In July, the Shelter Cluster Team performed several
monitoring visits to Avdiivka to provide support to local authorities who are
working to repair homes in areas that are the most exposed to shelling. In
response to the intensive shelling in February 2017, local authorities have
started to implement their own repair works, and have thus far repaired 45
homes. While many humanitarian agencies have provided monetary and
materials support to households roughly 30 households who had received
previous humanitarian assistance are afraid of conducting repairs due to fear
of repeated shelling.
 - City of Solidary Event: On the 5th of July, UNHCR in cooperation with the city
councils of Mariupol and Kyiv invited municipalities, ministries, and other
humanitarian and development stakeholders to discuss housing as a key to IDP
integration. To share lessons learned from other countries in the globe, the
Global Shelter Cluster lead was attending the conference.