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HUMANITARIAN AND DEVELOPMENT NEXUS

As the conflict in eastern Ukraine continues, humanitarian and development actors need to work closely together to support IDPs and the conflict-affected population in order to promote durable solutions, maximize resources, build upon a wide range of expertise, and ensure that their programmes are complementary and sustainable.

This note aims to encourage humanitarian and development actors to work closely together to ensure a rights based approach to assistance in their programs. This New Way of Working for humanitarian and development actors was highlighted in Secretary-General Bans Agenda for Humanity, prepared for the World Humanitarian Summit and reflected in a joint Commitment to Action. It is included in the United Nations Development Assistance Framework Guidance that takes into account the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which incorporates more integrated and interconnected programming by bringing closer development, humanitarian, human rights and peacebuilding agendas.

ENSURING A RIGHTS BASED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT

Protection has been at the centre of the humanitarian response in Ukraine and it is important that a rights based approach is integrated into the early recovery and development response as well. Many protection issues inform development response and are integral to durable solutions. The need for sustainable livelihoods, employment opportunities, affordable housing and security of tenure, non-discriminatory access to social services, public transport and access to education and health care, are all areas where the development community can play an active role. The need to rebuild and repair essential infrastructure including hospitals, schools, water and energy supply systems, which have been targeted by shelling, is another area where there is a need for development and humanitarian actors to work closely together.

Peacebuilding and reconciliation is also an area where humanitarian and development actors need to work closely together in order to strengthen social cohesion. A growing number of internally displaced people report an increase in discrimination as IDPs and host communities compete for resources within a fragile economy.

A sharp increase in poverty levelsin eastern Ukraine (20% to 74% in Luhansk and from 22% to 65% in Donetsk) highlights how the conflict, coupled with a deteriorating economic situation and high levels of unemployment, has further heightened the vulnerability of conflict-affected and displaced people. Unemployment and poverty are the issues most frequently cited by people in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts as contributing to feelings of insecurity above shelling and mines.

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Ukraine: Protection for Development Actors - August 2017 [EN/UK/RU] - ReliefWeb