Facilitating access to human rights and essential services for internally displaced persons and returnees at the community level
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Title: FACILITATING ACCESS TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND RETURNEES AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL
Duration: 24 months (until 31 January 2026)
Funding: voluntary contributions of the Council of Europe member states
Budget: 960 000 Euro
Target groups: displaced professionals, civil society organisations, hosting communities, local self-government bodies
End beneficiaries: internally displaced persons, returnees, other groups of the war-affected people
AIM & OBJECTIVES
The project aims at facilitating access to human rights and essential services for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees at the community level by supporting the development and advancement relevant of policies and practices, enhancing the capacities of displaced institutions and empowering civil society organisations to address displacement-related needs in host communities.
The Project will achieve its objectives through the following three pillars:
I. Supporting the national and local authorities in developing and implementing integration and re-integration policies and practices for IDPs and returnees.
The project will assist in the development of appropriate gender-sensitive strategies, programmes, and mechanisms to facilitate the access of IDPs and returnees to basic rights as well as social and administrative services. In the long term, the beneficiaries will better exercise their rights taking an active part in the decision-making processes.
II. Strengthening the capacities of displaced institutions in deploying and delivering services after relocation.
The project will design and provide tailored trainings, technical assistance and digital tools to displaced local administrations and legal professionals with a focus on trauma and burnout prevention, compassion fatigue and psychological assistance. Ultimately IDPs, returnees and local residents will receive quality social, legal, and administrative services determined by trauma-informed and rights-based approaches.
III. Empowering civil society organisations in affecting the human rights framework for IDPs and returnees.
The project will organise experience exchange, SMART community-based actions, and mentoring support for knowledge transfer between IDP-led initiatives and NGOs of the first (2014) and the second (2022) waves of displacement. The beneficiaries (IDPs, returnees and local residents) will make use of networking and will enhance resilience and social cohesion in host communities.
PROJECT PARTNERS
Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine
Local self-government bodies
PROJECT MATERIALS
The Council of Europe supports preparation of the Concept of Access to Education for Young People from the Temporarily Occupied Territories
On September 3, 2024, under the chairmanship of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets, with the support of the Council of Europe, the Inaugural Meeting of the Working Group on the preparation of the Concept of Access to the Right to Education of Young People from...
The Council of Europe has trained the trainers team on a trauma-informed approach in the context of access to human rights
In response to the needs of key national and local partners in Ukraine, the Council of Europe projects "Facilitating access to human rights and essential services for internally displaced persons and returnees at the community level" and "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III" launched the...
Call for participants: the Programme on trauma-informed approach in the context of access to rights and services
In response to the needs of key national and local partners in Ukraine, the Council of Europe projects "Facilitating access to human rights and essential services for internally displaced persons and returnees at the community level" and "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III" launch a new...
Steering committee meeting of the project on IDPs and returnees
On 12 June 2024, a Steering committee meeting of the Council of Europe Project “Facilitating access to human rights and essential services for internally displaced persons and returnees at the community level” took place in Kyiv. The Project is being implemented under the framework of the Council...