Ukraine

Advocacy for Ukraine

What is Happening?

The war and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine are deepening just as international support appears to be waning. Attacks by Russia have increased substantially along both the frontline and across civilian populated areas, killing, wounding and displacing more Ukrainians and knocking out vital infrastructure. Over 14.9 million people – about 40 percent of the Ukrainian population in Ukraine – need humanitarian assistance. Although Ukrainian aid organizations are at the forefront of humanitarian action, the UN and international aid agencies continue to control most decisions on strategy, resources, and programming. And they continue to expend the vast majority of aid that could be more efficiently and effectively deployed by Ukrainians.

What Must Be Done? 

Refugees International is working with the leading coalition of Ukrainian responders to shift more international aid and decision-making authority to Ukrainians –  and is looking to the global response to the crisis in Ukraine as a model for what can be achieved elsewhere in the world when there is enough political will to meet commitments on localization.