ukraine.usaid.gov
Mission Director: Janina Jaruzelski
USAID/Kiev
Department of State
Washington, DC 20521-5850
Tel: 380-44-537-4600
Fax: 380-44-537-4684
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Overview
Ukraine plays a key role in U.S. foreign policy objectives due to its strategic position between Europe and Eurasia and its importance for regional stability. The U.S. is committed to helping Ukraine achieve social and economic security for its citizens within a framework of democratic governance, and to help it fulfill its stated goal of joining NATO and the EU. Since 1992, USAID has devoted more than $1.6 billion to Ukraine. Today, USAID focuses on good governance, economic growth, and improving health conditions. It also works to develop public-private partnerships to leverage resources and expand the reach of its assistance.
Ukraine in Action
 Menarchik Reviews USAID Efforts in Crimea
From September 14-16, 2008, USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Dr. Douglas Menarchik traveled to the cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol to observe USAID programming in Crimea... Read More ...
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 Alchevsk Community Development Partnership Reports Progress
USAID and its partners supporting community development in the eastern city of Alchevsk held a conference on June 25, 2008 to review progress made over the past 10 months... Read More ...
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 Alchevsk Study Tour Learns Waste Management Best Practices
Ten Alchevsk residents recently returned from a U.S. tour sponsored by the USAID Community Connections Program, ready to help their hometown to implement the best waste management practices they’ve learned... Read More ...
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 Life Gets Brighter In Alchevsk
Poor street lighting is a common problem in many Ukrainian cities, including Alchevsk. It is especially felt in fall and winter, when daylight hours are limited. Elderly people tend not to go out on the street in the dark, unless it is urgent... Read More ...
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 Water Company Agrees to Operations Improvement Plan
In January 2008, the Municipal Development Institute, a Ukrainian NGO and USAID implementing partner, signed an agreement with the Alchevsk City Council, the Alchevsk City Development Fund... Read More ...
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 Energy Efficiency Project Lights Up Town
Ukraine’s communal buildings are notoriously energy inefficient. As energy prices climb, outdated technology becomes an increasingly larger liability for municipal budgets... Read More ...
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 Koryukivka Reaps Benefits of Strategic Public-Private Partnership
A small town of nearly 13,500 residents in Chernihiv Oblast, Koryukivka is home to the Koryukivka Technical Paper Factory, a public corporation that claims to be Europe's largest wallpaper manufacturer... Read More ...
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 Supply-Side Philanthropy: Building on the Impulse to Give
When Volodymyr Slobodonyak, an owner of a small print house in Cervonohrad, a small coal mining town in Western Ukraine, returned home from a seminar in Kiev on social entrepreneurship, he immediately approached Ilona Gudvoka... Read More ...
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 Sustainable Sex Education Project Targets Orphaned Youth
Irina Mashtal and her colleagues had worked a great deal on reproductive health education for the young people in Kharkiv, Ukraine when they began to recognize that the specific needs of one group of youth remained unmet... Read More ...
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 NGOs Team Up with Border Guard Service to Combat Trafficking
USAID/Ukraine works to build and fortify existing relationships and partnerships between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and state bodies to ensure a concerted national response to trafficking in human beings... Read More ...
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 Diversification Promises Sustainability for Rehab Center
Return to Life, a rehabilitation center in central Ukraine, first received a grant through USAID’s Strengthening Civil Society Organizations project (USAID/UCAN) to make and sell concrete paving blocks to raise additional revenue to fund its activities... Read More ...
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Reintegration Support Critical for Ukrainian Trafficking Victims
While on their way home after an early evening walk in the park, two Ukrainian girls, Alisa and Natasha (names changed), were kidnapped by a trafficker, who transported them to Moscow... Read More ...
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 Ukraine’s Poltava Oblast Invests in Women’s Health
Over the past decade, USAID’s Together for Health (TfH) and Policy Project have been working with Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and other partners to develop and implement supportive policies and systems for improving women’s health in that country... Read More ...
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Visiting Nurses Improve Treatment Compliance, Offer Hope to TB Patients
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 90’s, Ukraine has experienced a rapidly growing tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, deepening year by year and exacerbated by rising rates of multi-drug resistant strains and HIV co-infection... Read More ...
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 NGOs Educate Teens on Family Planning Through Film, Theatre
Teenagers are notoriously tough to please. Reaching out to them with any important information, particularly regarding reproductive health and family planning, can be very challenging... Read More ...
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 Entrepreneurship Support Fund Builds Souvenir Businesses
Praskovia Tanova, disabled from birth, had few job prospects in her hometown of Bolgrad in southern Ukraine. Craft-making had been her lifelong hobby, but she had never considered it a viable career option... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian City Wields E-Scissors for Cutting Red Tape
The idea of implementing individual E-government elements in Vinnytsya had already been in the air for some time when USAID’s Local Economic Development project proposed to include it into the city's Economic Development Strategic Plan... Read More ...
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 Reform Project Helps Chernivtsi Take Off
Chernivtsi International Airport is both a source of pride and problems for its namesake city. The airfield was built back in 1933; and although the runway was renovated in the mid-1980s, modernization of the airport is long overdue... Read More ...
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 Budget Reforms Helps Luhansk Keep Clean
What could be more irritating than litter on the streets of your native city, especially if you have spent your lifetime trying to clean it up? “It is just impossible to win this battle all by oneself,” said Mariya Duda shrugging her shoulders... Read More ...
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 SIDS Campaigns Save Lives in Ukraine
Alyona still shivers with fear when she recalls seeing her daughter lying face down, motionless in her bed. “She was an absolutely healthy child, and I left her unattended for just five minutes,”... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Trainers Receive International Recognition
Obstetrician Roman Savka and three other Urainian health care providers—midwife Lubov Polyakova and neonatologists Natalia Podolchak and Dmytro Dobryansky—master trainers for effective evidence-based perinatal technologies... Read More ...
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 NICU Training Helps Ukrainian Doctors Save 17 oz. Infant
At just over a pound, few expected newborn Bohdan to survive. His mother, Alyona arrived at the Zhytomyr Maternity Hospital after her water had broken and gave birth soon after... Read More ...
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 USAID Responds to Donetsk Mine Disaster
USAID Assistant Administrator Doug Menarchik handed over badly-needed equipment to the Donetsk Occupational Disease Hospital on December 1, 2007 to help dozens of miners in the aftermath of Ukraine’s worst-ever mine disaster... Read More ...
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 Willingness to Pay for Development Signals Sustainability
Sustainability is the ultimate goal of any technical assistance project. There are various criteria to determine whether a project has been able to survive without USAID or other donor funding... Read More ...
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 Media, Entertainment Industries Unite for HIV/AIDS Gala
On World AIDS Day 2007, Ukraine’s top celebrities united for two dynamic events, a nationally-broadcasted “StopAIDS” telethon and the SOSstradenie (Compassion) charitable gala-concert at the Ukraina Palace in Kyiv... Read More ...
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 Ukraine’s HIV+ Children Find Loving Homes
Nastya, 8, and Lena, 6, have life stories similar to that of many HIV-positive kids. Both girls had been abandoned in maternity hospitals right after birth; both subsequently remained in the hospital for almost a year... Read More ...
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 Young Artists Raise Funds for Pediatric HIV Services
Over 500 young and professional artists and talented children donated works for Ukraine’s two-day “Youth Art Against AIDS” exhibition-auction in December 2007... Read More ...
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 Campaign Urges Ukrainian Students to Get HIV Tested
Eight leading Kyiv-based universities, 300 volunteers, and more than 50,000 students took part in the “Test for HIV in Your University” event in honor of World AIDS Day 2007... Read More ...
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 USAID Funds Day Care for HIV+ Kids
Liniya Zhyttya (Life Line), the sole HIV service organization in Ukraine’s Gorlovka, Donetsk oblast, works to provide support and services to various groups affected by HIV/AIDS, including mothers with young children... Read More ...
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 American Volunteers Boost Rural Lending in Ukraine
Ukraine’s growing number of private farmers and small-plot holders face difficulties accessing credit to start or expand their farming businesses. Most commercial banks avoid lending to small agricultural enterprises due to their inability to provide collateral... Read More ...
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 Specialist Certification Stimulates Development of Leasing in Ukraine
Ukraine’s leasing industry is experiencing strong growth on a percentage basis, but the amount of lease financing is still very low compared to other countries. In 2005, of all investment in fixed assets in Ukraine, less than two percent was financed through leasing... Read More ...
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 Ukraine Creates Secondary Mortgage Market
Experts view the creation of a secondary mortgage market to be a major objective for development of Ukraine’s financial system. The successful placement of Ukrgazbank’s pilot mortgage covered bond... Read More ...
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 Credit Bureaus Push Market Development in Ukraine
With the Ukrainian economy booming, income levels rising and the banking sector becoming more advanced, more and more Ukrainians are taking bank loans to buy a house or start a business... Read More ...
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 Municipal Bonds Raise Development Funds for Ukraine's Cities
Ukraine’s cities need massive amounts of investment to modernize their infrastructure, and municipal bonds provide the means to help them attract long-term capital. In late 2004, the USAID-funded Access to Credit Initiative (ATCI) began working with selected cities... Read More ...
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 New Budget Foresees More Cares about Children
Vika, a second grade pupil at Secondary School No. 22 in Pavlohrad, Ukraine has been fascinated by the accomplishments of the Olympic champion swimmer Yana Klochkova since she was very small... Read More ...
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 Relief Nursery Helps Ukrainian Families at Risk
Sashko, age 6, can count, knows the alphabet, and can write his first and last names. But he is eager to learn more and looks forward to starting school this September... Read More ...
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 USAID’s MAMA+ Program Preserves Families in Ukraine
Irina, 28, learned that she was HIV-positive last spring, in her fourth month of pregnancy. She received a post-test consultation at a women’s health clinic and was informed of the ramifications of the virus for both herself and her future baby... Read More ...
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 Perinatal Technologies Enhance Maternal Instinct
Hanna Kulbyaka had made up her mind not to keep her baby even before she had delivered. She was young and single with no one to help her, and thought that she would not be able to properly care for a child... Read More ...
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 Ukraine Enters the Covered Bond Market
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 Disabled Woman Fights to Remove Barriers in Ukraine
For seven years now, Anna Harchenko has used a wheelchair to get around in her native town of Cherkasy. At the age of 15, Anna fell and injured her spine while riding a horse... Read More ...
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 Evidence-Based Practices Save Mothers Lives
Maria Kovalenko was very concerned about how she would deliver her second baby, after nearly dying five years ago as a result of postpartum bleeding when her first son was born... Read More ...
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 MAMA+ Brings Children Home
Svitlana’s parents divorced when she was three. Although her mother eventually remarried, Svitlana’s relationship with her stepfather was tense throughout her childhood. After completing the 9th grade, Svitlana left home to begin her own life... Read More ...
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 Citizens Improve Communities While Protecting Their Heritage
Valentyna Opilat, a pensioner from Sadivniche district on Khortytsya Island, a nature reserve located in the center of Zaporizhia, recently installed gas heating in her home... Read More ...
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 Environmental Pollutants Finally Marked for Removal
For Stepan Vasylechko, head of the Syanky Village Council, December 2006 was the moment he tasted victory. After six years of struggle, it was finally decided at that time that 13 tons of unusable hazardous pesticides... Read More ...
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 Advocacy in Action: Saving Andriyivsky Izviz
Carolers wearing Ukrainian national costumes visited each and every house on Andriyivsky Uzviz on January 20 to wish residents good fortune and prosperity in the New Year... Read More ...
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 Volyn NGO instills Civic Oversight of Ukraine’s Criminal Law Process
Last year, high-school student Roman Danylchuk, 17, was accused of aggravated robbery. Allegedly, he and a friend assaulted another minor and took his cell phone in the process... Read More ...
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 One-Stop Shops Demonstrate Enduring Success
One of the goals of USAID’s BIZPRO project has been to support the development of permit-issuing one-stop shops (OSS) for businesses. From 2004 to 2006, BIZPRO helped open 41 one-stop shops in cities across Ukraine... Read More ...
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 Providing the Means for Private Entrepreneurship
Strolling past the large number of shops and restaurants in downtown Kyiv, one can’t help but be amazed at how business has boomed in the last couple years... Read More ...
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 Targeted Strategy Leads to Sparkling Success
Ukraine’s glass industry may be on the verge of a dynamic new chapter in its development if the results achieved by one major glass producer at a recent European trade fair are any indication... Read More ...
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 Newly Certified Professionals to Develop Leasing in Ukraine
On November 30, 26 individuals were recognized for passing a series of examinations and satisfying the requirements to become Certified Leasing Professionals... Read More ...
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 Annual Conference Bears Fruit for Farmers
The 3rd Annual Fruits and Vegetables Conference and Exhibition, sponsored by USAID’s Agricultural Marketing Project (AMP), was held in Kyiv on December 5-6... Read More ...
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 Ukraine Signs On to MCC Threshold Program to Control Corruption
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych marked his first U.S. visit by entering into a landmark agreement aimed at reducing corruption. On December 4, Prime Minister Yanukovych and U.S. Ambassador John Danilovich... Read More ...
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Ukraine Develops Non-State Pension Funds
Seeking to become a member of the world community, Ukraine has been adopting successful practices of developed economies first evidenced by the passage of the “On Non-State Pension Provision” law in 2004... Read More ...
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 Ukrainians Put a Face on HIV
Antonina works as a press-secretary in the Cherkasy regional department of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH), where Oleksandr works as a social worker... Read More ...
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 Engaging Communities to Fight Stigma, Discrimination
Ukraine is a young country that has inherited many old stereotypes and prejudices after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. One is the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps to Find Homes for HIV+ Children
Tania, 10, a sensitive and lovely girl with curly hair, dreams of becoming a dancer. Another life-long dream of hers–having a family–was recently realized, thanks to the USAID-funded Families for Children Program... Read More ...
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 USAID Reunites HIV+ Mother with Child
Lena, 31, lived in a small village of Blizhnee near Simferopol with her husband, 12-year-old daughter Katyusha and 10-year-old son Ihor. Life was not easy; her husband was an alcoholic who had turned to injecting drugs as well... Read More ...
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 Increased Elective C-Sections Decreases HIV Transmission in Ukraine
In the postpartum ward of Simferopol Maternity Hospital N. 2, Viktor helps his wife, Natalia, (names changed) to care for their baby boy. Viktor and Natalia, both HIV-positive, were referred to the Simferopol Maternity Hospital... Read More ...
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 USAID, ABA/CEELI Provides Legal Aid to Thousands
Clinical legal education provides law students with practical experience to complement their classroom education. It is also a much needed source of free legal information and assistance... Read More ...
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 Public-Private Partnership Feeds Ukraine’s Needy Seniors
Milaniya Achkasova celebrated her 83rd birthday last January. After working for 40 years at a local factory in the city of Kharkiv, she has been retired for about 15 years... Read More ...
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 USAID, IOM Provide Assistance to Enslaved Sailors
Trafficking is not just a young woman’s problem. Men, too, are often forced to labor in construction and agriculture. In 2006, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) provided reintegration assistance... Read More ...
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 Prevention Effort Thwarts Trafficking in Women
Mila, a divorced mother, worked in a Zhytomyr city hospital. On her modest physician’s salary, she supported her 10-year-old daughter and elderly parents. Her income was so small that she barely could make ends meet... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian NGOs Work to Halt Human Slavery
Over the last few years, counter-trafficking efforts in Ukraine have yielded significant results, including increasing assistance to those affected by this crime... Read More ...
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 Ukraine to Roll-Out International Perinatal Practices
The USAID Mission in Ukraine is expected to sign a new contract with John Snow Inc. to roll-out international mother and infant care practices nationwide... Read More ...
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 Clergy Joins Fight Against Human Trafficking
Religious organizations, considered to be among the most sustainable and influential social institutions in Ukraine, are one of the key links in the powerful chain that links international anti-trafficking efforts... Read More ...
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 Rocking Against Human Slavery
Last year, Ukrainians walking down Khreschatyk in Kyiv could see posters of Slava Vakarchuk, front man for the popular rock group, Okean Elzy, addressing a burning social issue: the fight against human slavery... Read More ...
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 Common Standards Bring Industry Together
In industry, adhering to standards means getting the service or product exactly as you expected it. Not so long ago, when a company placed an order with Ukrainian apparel factory... Read More ...
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 Cruise Ship Tourism Returns to Ukraine
When a cruise ship visits a port, it means money. The boat’s passengers spend their cash in the port and its owners buy local port services... Read More ...
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 Hotline Helps Local Woman Protect Herself
Lyudmyla, a second-year law student, attended a seminar on trafficking in persons held at her university. During the workshop, the organizers – the Rivne-based NGO, Chayka... Read More ...
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 From Banana Boxes to Brand Recognition
Produce brand names often arise from the region where the commodity being branded is produced. Such is the case with Crimean table grapes, which enjoy brand recognition with Ukrainians... Read More ...
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 Ukraine Fashion Event Gathers Designers, Manufacturers
What Westerners consider a fashion industry – creative designers, skilled manufacturers who translate their visions into well-made clothes, and a developed distribution network – didn’t exist in Ukraine for a long time... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Tourism Says Goodbye to the Dead Season
Larissa Kazachenko is a successful business woman with 15 years of experience in the tourism business. Her agency, Southern Tour, opened in 1996, specializes in cultural and historic tourism... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Kindergartens Receive New Chairs
A town does not always need hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem. The first step in finding a solution, however, is to identify the problem... Read More ...
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 Rural Councils Find Solutions for Local Problems
Until recently, single mother Oksana Moskalyuk had to choose between finding a job outside of her village of Gostiv or staying home to care for her four-year-old, Alina... Read More ...
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 City Council Partners with Civil Society Organizations to Address Urgent Needs
Hilfe is a non-profit CSO that fights poverty and has been helping Chernivtsi’s needy residents for 15 years. Every year it has received 25 tons of humanitarian aid from a German charity organization... Read More ...
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 Community-Based Approach Brings Consistency to Local Development
Municipal governments come and go, and plans, programs and strategies elaborated by predecessors also often disappear with the wind of elections... Read More ...
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 Citizens Help to Reform Communal Services
Many city residents in Ukraine still do not realize that it is ultimately they who own and are responsible for communal service enterprises (CSEs)—water, wastewater and heat enterprises... Read More ...
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 New Ambulances Save Lives in Zhytomyr
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Zhytomyr’s emergency response system has been in decline. The quality of medical services gradually deteriorated as money to buy new equipment or upgrade poorly kept facilities disappeared... Read More ...
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 Municipalities Plan for the Future: Chop’s Residents Get Clear Water
Water had been a serious problem for Chop for quite some time. Galyna Petrivna, who has lived in the town for the last 40 years, says that not so long ago she could not have been sure... Read More ...
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 Social Partnership Looks to Replicate Russian Success in Ukraine
From June 14th – 16th, representatives from USAID/Russia, USAID/Ukraine, and from USAID/Russia’s implementing partners participated in the annual meeting of the Coordination Council on Social Partnership of the SUAL Company... Read More ...
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 Bonding with Dad Can Be a Lifesaver for Ukrainian Newborns
Oleh would have never predicted that he would one day perform a function that until recently was attributed to mothers... Read More ...
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 Innovative Theater Program Teaches Tolerance
“You always have to be difficult! When it comes to collecting money for an exam, your mother is unavailable. She has money to buy you mini skirts, but never for flowers for the teacher!”... Read More ...
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 MAMA+ Helps Reduce Child Abandonment By Mothers Living with HIV
Anna, age 20, discovered her HIV-positive status in the eighth month of her pregnancy. An orphan without close relatives to help her, she was depressed, upset and scared... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Girl Rescues Self, Then Siblings From Slavery
Halyna (name changed), 11, lived with her younger brother and sister along with their alcoholic mother and stepfather in a small city in Vynnytsya Oblast... Read More ...
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 State Committee Issues Order to Protect Villagers’ Rights and Pocketbooks
On March 27, the new Head of Ukraine’s State Committee on Land Resources (DKZ), Mykola Sydorenko issued an order that clearly establishes that citizens should not pay fees for the registration of land titles... Read More ...
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 Textile Sector Reaps Benefits of Cooperation
For many Ukrainian apparel manufacturers, assembling clothes for foreign companies under a “cut-and-make” scheme is a way to survive while their own brands develop... Read More ...
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 Media as a Link Between Government and Citizens
Results of focus groups that the International Republican Institute conducted last fall determined that many Ukrainians were either unaware or misinformed about reforms... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Villagers Learn Land Rights through Public Education Program
While the USAID-supported Land Titling Initiative Project (ULTI) is about giving villagers title to land, the process is not simply about doing a quick bureaucratic shuffle and filling out a certificate... Read More ...
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 Informed Ukrainians Protect Their Families from Avian Flu
When Avian Flu (AI) appeared in Ukraine in December 2005, Ukraine came face to face with a virus with global implications along with the agricultural and economic losses that coincide with controlling it... Read More ...
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 NGO Newspaper Safeguards Ukrainians’ Rights
At the top of the front page of the newspaper Vgoru (Upward), one finds the ambitious motto “high journalism.”... Read More ...
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 Some Find Farm Business Model Best Tool for Success
Failing to plan is planning to fail” is a popular saying. Unfortunately, many tradition-bound farmers in Ukraine have never paid much attention to planning... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Farmers Learn to Master Loans
If you have never applied for a loan, it is probably only a matter of time before you do. Personal and commercial bank loans, commonly used by most everybody in the United States and Europe... Read More ...
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 Sasyk Estuary Experiences “Rebirth,” Thanks to Ukrainian NGO
“During Soviet times, one had two things to fear – militarization and meliorism.” This bitter joke comes from Iryna Vykhrystiuk, leader of Vidrodzhennya (Rebirth)... Read More ...
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 Local NGO Helps Trafficked Woman Readjust
Life can change dramatically and in unexpected ways, just ask Lena from Vinnytsia. In 2004, Lena was working as a bartender when she agreed to a radical change of unemployment to assuage her boss... Read More ...
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 Protecting the Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains are a unique 1,500-kilometer ecosystem stretching across seven European countries, including Ukraine... Read More ...
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 Success in Business Breeds Success in Community Service
The name “Lyudmyla” can be translated from Ukrainian as a one who is “dear to people.” Lyudmila Sobol from Khudyaki village, Cherkasy oblast, mirrors the name fully... Read More ...
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 Independent Media Projects Support Watchdogs of Democracy
Since 2001, the Web-based media outlet Telekritika has reported on current Ukrainian media trends and provided in-depth analysis and critical assessment of Ukrainian TV and radio program content... Read More ...
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 Breast Cancer Survivor Offers Hope, Education for Ukrainian Women
Young, beautiful, cheerful, vibrant and energetic – that’s how people describe Olena Yurchenko, a volunteer at the “Women’s Health and Family Planning” Charity Fund... Read More ...
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 “Just Look Into The Eyes” Promotes HIV/AIDS Awareness in Crimea
Understanding that it is impossible to fight AIDS unless people first learn to understand and support those who live with HIV/AIDS, a group of activists organized an unusual photo exhibition in Symferopol, Crimea, for World AIDS Day... Read More ...
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 Adjusting to Motherhood and Living with HIV
For Viktoriya, 24, who lives in the village of Volnovaha outside Donetsk, Ukraine, the last year has been an emotional roller coaster ride of joy and trauma... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Breeze Ready to Blow into the EU Market
As Ukraine prepares to enter the World Trade Organization global trade market, Ukrainian food processors must meet a key export precondition to ensure the safety of the food they process to compete effectively.... Read More ...
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 Adoption of New Standards Helps Cerealia Attract Major Global Food
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Cerealia Ukraine Ltd., a member of Cerealia Group Corp., processes and promotes cereal food products. In 1991, the plant made the transition to modern technologies... Read More ...
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 Ukrainians with Disabilities Fight for Rights
According to European statistics, handicapped people generally constitute from 8% to 12% of a society’s population... Read More ...
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 Free Legal Consultation Yields Privatized Land for Ukraine’s Farmers
At least half of the 3,000 registered farmers in Ukraine’s Kherson region have heard of Viktor Poleshchuk. Poleschchuk was the first farmer in the region to privatize arid and sandy land instead of fertile chornozem land... Read More ...
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 Ukraine’s Co-Op Associations Access Free Legal, Management Advice from USAID-Supported Consulting Center
Although her life had not been easy, Marfa Trykashyna, a single retired woman, has always relied only on herself. Until she was 64 years of age, she resided in a dormitory... Read More ...
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 Youth Council Takes Part in Odesa City Policymaking
Young people in Odesa are much like their counterparts elsewhere: they study, work, play sports, and hang out with their friends... Read More ...
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Media Executives Commit to AIDS Awareness TV Spots in Russia and
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In a meeting last week in Moscow, Media Executives from Russia and Ukraine bolstered their commitment to fight HIV/AIDS in their countries using their strong public/private sector image and identity... Read More ...
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 Looking to the Future, Anna Puts Her Ordeal Behind Her
Anna* comes across as a pleasant and talkative young Ukrainian woman. She willingly tells you about her family and her present job... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Doctor Learns to Answer the Tough HIV/AIDS Questions
Dr. Antonina Skripka has directed the Mykolayiv Antenatal Clinic No.2 for 21 years and has been a doctor for 30... Read More ...
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 Eliminating HIV Status as a Barrier to Quality Care for New Mothers
Natalia G. discusses baby care with Larissa P. as they share a meal in the Symferopol Maternity Hospital No. 2 cafeteria... Read More ...
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 CPP Conference Celebrates Accomplishments and Looks to the Future
The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation’s Community Partnerships Project (CPP) celebrated its accomplishments and looked to the future of the project and of Ukraine at its recent U.S. conference... Read More ...
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 Ukraine Land Titling Initiative Boosts Private Property Ownership
Nearly 600 citizens gathered at the Liubovytska Village Rada, located in Malyn raion (district), on June 29, 2005 to receive Land Share Certificates for the right to ownership of land parcels... Read More ...
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 A Wholesaler of Frozen Food Goes Fresh
Oksana Bondarivs’ka, 42, a vegetarian, had always had problems finding fresh quality produce in her district. Although there was a small bazaar right across the street and several small retailers... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Clothing Brand Success Paves the Way to Russia
On average, a Ukrainian clothing manufacturer works under a “cut-and-make scheme,” earning about 30 cents for each piece of clothing it produces... Read More ...
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 Legal Aid Center Helps Farmer Start Business
Stanislav Sych, a miller from Nykyforivtsi Village of Vinnytsia Oblast, inherited 3 hectares of land. He did not have much farm experience and wanted to lease out his new parcel... Read More ...
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 Husband Casts Ukrainian Tradition Aside and Helps Deliver Son
It wasn’t easy getting Nikolai Yarmakov to take part in the birth of his son. Within much of Ukrainian society a lingering attitude exists that a man does not do “female tasks” like making the bed... Read More ...
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 Ukrainian Glass Sparkles in its Debut at the World’s Premier Home Furnishings Show
While the glass-making tradition in Ukraine does not compare to the Czech Republic, where the Czechs have practiced the craft since at least the 12th century... Read More ...
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 Internet as New “Market” To Sell Farmers’ Produce
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 USAID Swears in New Director for Regional Mission in Ukraine
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 Replicability and Sustainability in U.S.-Ukraine
Partnerships
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation's Community Partnership Program
The E&E Deputy Assistant Administrator gave the keynote
luncheon address July 23 in St. Louis at the U.S.-Ukraine
Foundation's conference on Replicability and Sustainability
in U.S.-Ukraine Partnerships. The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation's
Community Partnership Program (CPP), funded by E&E since
1997, currently supports partnerships between 14 U.S. and
14 Ukrainian medium-sized cities and focuses on strengthening
local government and promoting citizens' participation at
the grassroots level. Read More...
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