Kick-Off Meeting of UN4UkrainianCities
Enhancing urban planning in the cities of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv in Ukraine by supporting the implementation of the new master plans and facilitating investments in sustainable urban infrastructure
Palais des Nations, Geneva Switzerland
In 2022, UNECE established the UN4Kharkiv and UN4Mykolaiv initiatives to support the Ukrainian national and local governments in their efforts to prepare for rebuilding and reconstruction of Ukrainian cities. Since April 2022, by request of the Ministry of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure, UNECE began implementing two pilot projects in the cities of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv. The UN4Kharkiv and UN4Mykolaiv Task Forces, coordinated by UNECE, support the work of international and Ukrainian architects, engineers and other experts on the development of reconstruction master plans for the two cities.
The objective of the UN4Kharkiv and UN4Mykolaiv initiatives is to support the national government and their efforts to help these two cities to build back better, adopting a balanced, evidence-based, participatory approach that links emergency and long-term strategic objectives.
The project kick-off meeting brought together the main project partners and city representatives as well as national level representatives to discuss and fine-tune the different activities of the project.
“Cities are where the action takes place”
Scaled-up under the broader UN4UkrainianCities initiative, both initiatives are funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The project will “operationalize” the reconstruction efforts in Ukrainian cities and will help the cities to “build back better” following a balanced, evidence-based, participatory approach that links emergency and long-term strategic objectives.
Written by Anya Magotra.