Emergency livelihoods programme

The acceptance of applications for the 2024 Programme has been completed.

The opening of the acceptance of applications for 2025 will be announced on this page, as well as on the social media pages of the Estonian Refugee Council in Ukraine.

Estonian Refugee Council in Ukraine is implementing the Emergency Livelihoods Programme. The objective of the programme is to provide access to livelihoods to vulnerable households affected by the armed conflict, generate new sources of income and support people to achieve the subsistence minimum.

Programme covers selected hromadas in Kirovohradska, Poltavska, Cherkasska, Kharkivska, Mykolaivska, Zaporizka, Dnipropetrovska and Donetska oblasts and selected households will receive livelihoods grants of up to 36,000 UAH per household to start or resume economic activities enhancing their livelihoods.

What can assistance be used for?

Emergency livelihoods support is provided for starting or resuming the following types of economic activities:

  • animal husbandry: meet, milk and egg production
  • aviculture
  • horticulture: growing vegetables and fruits in greenhouses and in the kitchen-garden, etc
  • beekeeping: breeding bees and production of beekeeping products
  • other types of agriculture
  • food production: baking, production of semi-finished products, bread, cakes, etc
  • services: tailoring or clothes repair, handicrafts, construction or renovation, household services, beauty services, etc

Grants can be used to purchase combinations of goods and services in order to increase food production and/or household profit. Applications that only propose to enhance operating activities or that only require the coverage of learning costs are not supported under this programme.

Who can apply?

Vulnerable households that have lost the means to support their families (internally displaced households, households that have returned home after displacement, and local populations affected by war) from the areas indicated below can apply for the program. The pre-approval decision is made based on the information provided by the main applicant representing the household by applying the Estonian Refugee Council's online platform.

Affected households from the following hromadas are eligible to apply:

  • Poltavska oblast, Kremenchutskui raion (Kremenchutska hromada) and Myrhorodskyi raion (Myrhorodska hromada)
  • Dnipropetrovska oblast, Sinelnykivskyi raion (Mezhivska, Pokrovska and Vasyl'kivska hromadas) 
  • 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)
  • Donetska oblast, Pokrovskyi raion (Dobropil'ska hromada)
  • Cherkaska oblast
  • Kirovohradska oblast

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

! Preference will be given to applicants without permanent employment or income.

If successful, the maximum amount of financial aid for economic activities will be from 26,000 to 36,000 UAH per household.

The amount of the financial aid will be transferred to the bank account.

How to apply for assistance?

In order to start the application, go to the application form, enter the phone number you used when registering for cash assistance, click Continue

Fill in the application form

Application video guidance is available via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktr3sI1JOzY

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 final confirmation, our specialist will contact you to sign the Grant Agreement, after which the payment will be made according to your chosen method of transfer of funds. Our experts review the application within 3 weeks from the moment of its receipt. You will be notified of the results of the application review.

Check the status of the application

(To do this, you need to enter your phone number and tax identification number).

Application deadline: 31.10.2024 18:00.

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. Following the final confirmation, our specialist will contact you to sign the Grant Agreement, after which, the payment will be made to your bank account.

Our experts review the application up to 3 weeks from the date of its receipt. You will be informed about the results of the application review. If you are selected, a written agreement will be concluded with you, and the amount of assistance will be transferred to your bank account.

If you have any problems accessing the application, please contact us: +38 073 508 08 39 from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00, livelihoods@pagulasabi.ee

The decision to apply for the 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 for programme assessment purposes. The information collected will be shared with the programme evaluation team and be only accessible by the team members. The results of the assessment will be shared with programme 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.

The list of requirements for beneficiaries or target regions may be changed and the list of categories may be expanded in the future. Please be aware, that all humanitarian aid is free!

To get information about the programme, find out how to register, request technical support, and leave feedback or a complaint, or if someone asks you to pay, do something inappropriate or perform any favor or sexual action in exchange for help, say no and 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 programme is implemented with funding from the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA/USAID), and the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.