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In mid-2014, the Government of Ukraine
(GoU) requested technical assistance and financial support
from the inter¬national community to assess and plan
priority recovery and peacebuilding efforts in the
conflict-affected regions of eastern Ukraine. Following
these requests, and within the framework of the 2008 Joint
Declaration on Post-Crisis Assessments and Recovery
Planning, the EU, UN, and WBG agreed to support the
government in undertaking a Recovery and Peacebuilding
Assessment (RPA). This assessment follows the Post-Conflict
Needs Assessment (PCNA) methodology. In view of the
continuing conflict in eastern Ukraine, it was decided to
undertake an initial rapid assess¬ment as a first phase of
activity, which would provide an analytical and programmatic
baseline for recovery efforts to inform urgent interventions
and provide a basis for scaling up recovery plan¬ning and
responses as the situation and needs evolve on the ground.
This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of
the first phase of the RPA, which was undertaken in the
period November 2014 to February 2015. In light of the
dynamic and fluid nature of the situation in eastern
Ukraine, these findings should be considered as a snapshot
in time. In particular, the assessment of infrastructure
damage is limited to the damage that occurred on or before
November 2014. Furthermore, the number of registered
internally displaced persons (IDPs), utilized as a reference
to estimate the needs of this affected population,
corresponds to the official government estimates as of
February 2015.
