Winterization livelihoods support for livestock

Applications for the 2024-2025 Winter Season Program are closed.

Estonian Refugee Council implements a Winterization program during the 2024-2025 winter season. The objective of the program is to restore or sustain the conflict-affected agricultural livelihoods in the hromadas which are listed below. 300 households will receive grants of up to 32,200 UAH to meet their immediate basic agricultural needs for the upcoming winter.

What can assistance be used for?

Assistance can be received for the following activities:

  • Rehabilitation of animal shelter/barn (up to 17,200 UAH)
  • Animal feed (up to 12,000 UAH)
  • Veterinary services (vaccination and treatment of diseases common in winter etc.) (up to 3,000 UAH)

It is expected that the project will reduce or mitigate winter impacts on livestock and poultry, strengthen vulnerable conflict-affected households' self-reliance, and contribute to their economic capacity.

Who can participate?

Vulnerable households from the Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv regions affected by the war can apply to the program. Affected households from the following hromadas are eligible to apply:

  • Kharkivska oblast, Chuhuivskyi raion (Zmiivska, Novopokrovska and Slobozhanska hromadas), Izumskyi raion (Barvinkyvska hromada)
  • Mykolaivska oblast, Mykolaivskyi raion (Ol'shanska and Shevchenkivska hromadas)
  • Zaporizska oblast, Zaporizskyi raion (Vil'nyanska and Bilen'kivska hromadas)

Priority vulnerable groups:

  • Single parent headed household
  • Female-headed household
  • Household with pregnant women
  • Household with 3 or more children under the age of 18
  • Household with new-born children under 2 years of age
  • Household whose members have a disability of the 1st or 2nd group
  • Household whose members need expensive medical treatment or care
  • Household of elderly members (60+), including single elderly
  • Household whose dwelling was partially or fully destroyed due to the conflict
  • Household with members who were injured or died due to the conflict

The pre-approval decision is made on the basis of the information provided by the main applicant representing the household. The applicant shall submit an application on the online platform of the Estonian Refugee Council. If successful, the maximum amount of assistance will be up to 32,200 UAH per household. The amount of the financial aid will be transferred to the bank account.

How to apply for assistance?

Fill in the application form

In the registration form, indicate your current mobile phone number (if necessary, you can use it to clarify the data in the application). The application will be considered in the case of consent to the collection, processing and storage of personal data (in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the Protection of Personal Data"). All fields of the application are required to be filled in, which ensures a faster decision on the selection of the application for the program. Indicate only those vulnerability criteria that you can document and provide all supporting documents that are specified in the application. Enter the current address of your household. Select all types of livestock and poultry you have (cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, etc.). Please note that assistance is provided for the winter period (December 2024 - March 2025). 

After filling out the form, our specialists will review the information you have provided and, if necessary, inform you about the need to provide additional information to the email address specified in the online form. After the final approval of the application, you will be sent a notification to the email address specified in the application. Financial assistance will be provided during November-December 2024.

Check the status of the application

 

Application deadline: applications closed.

After filling out the form, our specialists will review the information provided and, if necessary, inform you about the need to provide additional information using the email specified in the online form. Our experts review the application up to 3 weeks after receipt (Due to the large number of applications received for livelihood support, the processing time has increased, but our team is working to reduce the processing time as much as possible. You will be notified of the results of your application via email address provided in your application).
If your application form is selected, the payment will be made according to the selected transfer mechanism in the application form.

The decision to apply for assistance is voluntary, the information provided is confidential. The information provided during the call and on this form will only be used for the vulnerability assessment of the household and program assessment purposes. The information collected will be shared with the program evaluation team and be only accessible by the team members. The results of the assessment will be shared with program donors in a non-identifiable manner. If you have any questions or concerns about the information being collected with this form, please submit a request through the online form.

Please be aware, all humanitarian aid is free! If someone asks you to pay, do something inappropriate, perform any favour or sexual action in exchange for help, 

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to get information about the programme, find out how to register, request technical support, leave feedback or a complaint you, can contact the Estonian Refugee Council hotline at  073-861-79-98 from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 16.00 or leave feedback/complaint online.

 

The program is undertaken with the financial support of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.