About PFRU

The Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU) strengthens Ukraine’s resilience in the face of Russian aggression by providing essential support to hromadas affected by the war. Funded by some of Ukraine’s closest international partners, PFRU works in close cooperation with the Government of Ukraine to help people, institutions, and hromadas withstand pressure, recover, and rebuild.

PFRU’s work spans several interconnected areas: restoring critical infrastructure and public services, supporting local governance and recovery planning, strengthening safety and protection, sustaining economic activity, and reinforcing culture, identity, and social cohesion. This allows the programme to respond to urgent needs while also supporting the systems, relationships, and capacities that help hromadas function during wartime.

PFRU works across the space between urgent stabilisation and longer-term recovery. This means responding to immediate needs while also helping communities and institutions build the capacity, systems, and trust needed to recover and adapt over time.

Working with national institutions, local authorities, civil society, first responders, businesses, cultural actors, and communities, PFRU ensures support is coordinated, locally relevant, and grounded in real needs.

Its work is guided by a broad understanding of resilience – one that includes not only physical reconstruction, but also access to services, livelihoods, trust, social cohesion, cultural identity, and people’s ability to shape their future.

PFRU Strategic Objectives

To support Ukraine’s resilience against Russian aggression, both now and in the future, PFRU works towards five strategic outcomes. Together, they reflect a joined-up approach that responds to urgent needs, helps hromadas, institutions, and society adapt, remain functional under pressure, and supports the broader conditions for long-term resilience. This framework allows PFRU to combine practical support on the ground with a wider focus on social cohesion, recovery, and evidence-informed decision-making.

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Outcome 1

Prevent isolation of people living in TOTs and prepare for liberation and reintegration.

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Provide rapid response to the frontline and bordering hromadas.

Outcome 2

Revive and improve essential services to build public confidence in the Ukrainian state.

Outcome 3

Strengthen vertical and horizontal social cohesion to provide societal resilience against Russian aggression.

Outcome 4

Generating and sharing data and lessons to inform PFRU programming and national policies.

How We Work

Our Vision: Resilience in all its forms

At its core, PFRU is about resilience – not just in the face of today’s emergencies, but with a view toward Ukraine’s future. Resilience is understood across three interlinked levels:

Resilience as survival: delivering immediate support to help communities withstand frontline pressures.
Resilience of communities: helping municipalities maintain basic services and cohesion amid ongoing conflict.
Societal resilience: supporting broader efforts to strengthen national unity, democratic trust, and shared identity.

Where PFRU Works

PFRU focuses its support on the places where people and local institutions face the greatest pressure, ensuring assistance responds to the real needs of each hromada.

The programme works across 11 oblasts grouped into three geographic areas:

North: Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy oblasts
East: Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts
South: Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Odesa oblasts

PFRU prioritises frontline, border, de-occupied, and war-affected hromadas, as well as areas where many internally displaced people have found safety and where local services are under increased pressure.

A Stabilisation-Informed Way of Working

While PFRU stems from a stabilisation framework, we do not follow a fixed template. We work in a stabilisation-informed way – focused on safeguarding basic needs, restoring trust, and creating the conditions for a more cohesive and stable future.

In practice, this means that we:

Prioritise politically meaningful interventions, including trust-building, inclusive governance, and perception change.
Fills the gaps between humanitarian, recovery, and development efforts – particularly in insecure or underserved areas.

Remain highly flexible and adaptive, adjusting our geographic and thematic focus in response to contextual changes.
Partner with both state and non-state actors to deliver relevant, timely, and responsive support.

PFRU Thought Leadership

PFRU combines practical delivery with evidence, local knowledge, and learning from Ukraine’s most war-affected hromadas.

Through research, consultations, data analysis, and cooperation with national and local partners, PFRU develops insights into how resilience works in practice – from social cohesion, public service delivery, and community security to economic recovery, culture, and identity.

These insights help PFRU adapt its support, inform evidence-based policy dialogue, and share practical learning with partners working to support Ukraine.

In a fast-changing wartime context, effective support must be based on real conditions, not assumptions. PFRU’s learning helps ensure that assistance is coordinated, inclusive, and grounded in the lived realities of hromadas affected by Russia’s war.

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