Ukrainian hromadas affected by the full-scale invasion face significant challenges, including resource shortages, limited administrative capacity, and inefficient coordination between government and citizens.
These issues hinder recovery efforts and stall service delivery, making it difficult for hromadas to rebuild and function effectively.
The PAIR Strategic Project addresses these gaps by strengthening local capacities, improving service delivery, and enabling hromadas to actively participate in recovery and future development.
While operating at three interconnected levels – national, oblast, and local – PAIR primarily works at the local level by providing direct support to hromada administrations.
Through PAIR, PFRU will support approximately 60 partner hromadas across 10 oblasts, assisting in:
This support helps hromadas to rebuild while simultaneously enhancing community resilience and laying the groundwork for sustainable development.
PAIR strengthens resilience by restoring critical infrastructure and reviving essential public services in Ukraine’s most vulnerable, war-affected hromadas. By combining material support with capacity-building training for local governments across four workstreams, PAIR ensures recovery efforts are locally responsive, transparent, and aligned with national policies. This approach fosters social cohesion, improves state-society relations, and enables inclusive, participatory decision-making to drive recovery priorities.
This workstream focuses on restoring buildings and structures that provide critical infrastructure or key services.
Priority is given to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) systems, electric and heating facilities, and air raid shelters.
Alongside critical infrastructure, PFRU restores facilities that provide key services, including:
Building on Infrastructure Recovery Workstream, this workstream revives and improves essential public services that residents rely on.
Activities include:
to increase coverage so that these service are more accessible to residents.
PFRU also transfers vehicles to municipal utility enterprises operated by local governments and supports barrier-free access to public buildings and air raid shelters.
These improvements help hromadas restore essential living conditions and create an environment for residents to remain in their communities, while encouraging others that have relocated to return home.
Participatory Approach in Inclusive Recovery Planning
This workstream helps local governments plan recovery in an inclusive, evidence-based way. Through community consultations, public forums, and targeted training, PFRU supports two-way communication with residents and strengthens local capacity in recovery planning, project management, Public Investment Management reform, medium-term planning, and investment attraction.
