Current USAID/Ukraine GDA Projects:

Efficient Water Supply in Alchevsk

The overall goal of the project is to establish a model for a sustainable Public-Private Alliance (PPA) to identify, evaluate, develop and implement municipal projects for reducing commercial and technical water losses in Ukrainian cities. The project builds on using combination of international and private donor financing, applying modern approaches for better management of water systems to improve quality and increase affordability of water/wastewater services for residential customers and thereby support USAID/Ukraine’s local government strategic objectives. 

The goal for the PPA is to implement a project aimed to significantly reduce volumes of unaccountable water in Alchevsk city over a one-year period, to demonstrate the economic, environmental and social benefits of proper municipal water management practices, and to initiate development of additional projects in other municipalities of Luhansk oblast. The project aims to significantly reduce water losses in the current water supply system through a number of technical, operational and public outreach measures in the city of Alchevsk and to encourage implementation of such measures in other municipalities of Ukraine. This mechanism will be secured through training and “lessons learned” dissemination.

Read more about Efficient Water Supply in Alchevsk.

Media Development

The Strengthening Independent Media in Ukraine program aims to protect the right of free speech, promote fair professional practices, increase the availability and quality of news, and ensure an independent, financially viable media. Program activities over the next several years will likely range from media literacy education to journalism school reform, from legal and legislative support to support for media NGOs, and from rating services to investigative journalism training.

Read more about this Media Development Program.

Partnership for the Future of Alchevsk

The Alchevsk partnership began in September 2007 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between USAID, the city of Alchevsk, and the Industrial Union of Donbas (ISD) and its Alchevsk Development Fund. The initiative to provide community development support to the city came after the city’s water and heating system suffered several catastrophic failures over the previous few years. The project is a comprehensive and integrated effort to stimulate city development and can serve as a model for other Ukrainian cities. It consists of five separate components: developing an economic development strategy to spur local and foreign investment; restructuring the municipal budgeting process away towards performance program budgeting; organizing and empowering civil society and non-governmental organizations to make the needs and demands of Alchevsk’s citizens known, while monitoring city government progress; reforming and modernizing the city’s heating, water and waste treatment systems; and, community exchanges with U.S. towns to share international practices. 

For more information, please read USAID Insight Issue #3.

Partnership to Eradicate TB in Ukraine

Building on USAID’s successful TB program that introduced the DOTS strategy approach in Ukraine, USAID has teamed with the Foundation for the Development of Ukraine, a local philanthropic foundation, to eradicate TB in Ukraine. The MOU between USAID and Foundation for the Development of Ukraine was signed in January 2008. Within this partnership, USAID is providing a tested model for treatment and prevention of TB, which will be rolled out more broadly within Ukraine with the support of private sector funding. Looking to the future we USAID will work with Foundation for the Development of Ukraine to attract additional partners to the alliance, to help address some of the other priority areas identified within our program and the broader alliance including, but not exclusively, an awareness and behavior change campaign, improved TB control and information platforms, sharing of best practice amongst practitioners.

Partnership with Donbass Fuel and Energy Company

USAID and the Donbass Fuel and Energy Company (DTEK) have teamed up for a multi-year partnership in Ukraine to generate new jobs and attract investment in seven cities - Kirovske, Kurakhovo, Zugres, Pavlograd, Ternovka, Pershotravensk and Schastye across Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The alliance will craft strategic economic plans to generate new jobs and attract investment in seven cities across three provinces. Mayors in each city will establish a public-private strategic planning committee to map municipal resources and assets. DTEK’s $150,000 donation will enable consultants experienced in local economic development to lead the planning process. The strategic plans will be signed off by the city’s mayor and city council and executed via new economic development units.

The alliance follows hot on the heels of a local economic development program in 40 Ukrainian cities that has already generated $600 million in investment and created 12,000 jobs.

Ukrainian Media Partnership to Combat HIV/AIDS

The goal of the Ukrainian Media Partnership to Combat HIV/AIDS (UMP) is to mobilize mass media and commercial marketing to: 1) improve awareness of general population and specific target groups about HIV/AIDS and ways to prevent the spread of the disease; 2) create a highly visible, mainstream platform to give a public voice to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), thereby encouraging the general population to identify, empathize and build solidarity with PLWHA and members of vulnerable groups; 3) support the creation of an environment that enables increased awareness, education, discussion and behavior modification to ultimately slow the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Read more about Ukrainian Media Partnership to Combat HIV/AIDS.

 

Corporate Social Responsibility:

Employee Volunteering Presentation (PDF file, 380 KB)

Regional CR Trends in Easten Europe (PDF file, 123 KB)

Ukrainian Summit Speech "The Evolution of the Ukrainian Corporate Citizen" (PDF file, 61.0 KB)