📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund - New York
Country: Europa, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2025 End: 31.12.2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
This project aims at supporting children, women and their families affected by the war in Ukraine through the provision of emergency protection, basic health services and education in emergencies.
Expected results
With the Austrian contribution, vulnerable children and their families will
- be provided with emergency child protection responses,
- have increased access to social protection and family-based care,
- receive adequate primary health care services,
- have increased access formal or non-formal education, including early learning.
Target group / Beneficiaries
With the Austrian contribution, UNICEF will target 52,800 children and adolescents affected by the war in Ukraine with child protection, health services and education interventions.
Locations: Ukraine nation-wide, Moldova nation-wideActivities
- technical assistance and advocacy for policy and legislative reform relating to family-based care/alternative care,
- training and supervision of professionals in the child welfare system as well as recruitment and training of alternative care candidates,
- strengthening availability and accessibility of support services at the community level to alternative care families,
- provision of primary, specialized and hospital healthcare for children and adolescents, especially those with disabilities,
- promotion of school enrolment through Back-to-School campaigns and outreach activities,
- specialized support for the enrolment, access and quality learning of children with disabilities,
- provision of support to education authorities and educators to enable learning recovery for primary and secondary school-age children.
Context
The war in Ukraine remains a child protection crisis, with an estimated 3.2 million children in need of child protection services and 6.7 million individuals, including children, in need of mine action interventions, including victims’ assistance and explosive ordnance risk education. As a result of the ongoing war, children have been exposed to various risks, including physical harm, injury, and death due to unexploded mines, airstrikes, and the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. These factors have disrupted essential services such as schools, hospitals, and social service provision, putting children at further risk. Children in conflict-affected areas have already endured years of violence, resulting in severe emotional distress and long-term impacts on their mental and psycho-social well-being.
Almost 2.5 years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova is hosting and providing services to more than 100,000 refugees, while providing support and assistance to nearly 1 million people who arrived in Moldova since March 2022. The profile of
