📋 Tender Overview
In Ukraine, the areas close to the frontline remain severely affected by the war. International support is needed to ensure access to safe water, restore essential infrastructure and maintain basic water supply and sanitation services. The third phase of this Swiss-led programme focuses both on humanitarian emergency WASH response in frontline/border regions while laying the ground to inform comprehensive and innovative reconstruction approaches.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Ukraine
Water
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Water supply
Water sanitation
Water diplomacy and security
15.01.2025 - 31.12.2027
CHF 19’500’000
The project in brief
Background Ukraine has been suffering from full scale Russian military aggression since 24 February 2022. During the occupation, and especially now during the warfare in the winter of 2024, water and energy infrastructure were explicitly targeted. As a result of the hostilities, essential infrastructure is damaged and continues to break down due to lack of maintenance. Citizens who stayed or returned to the affected areas face difficult living conditions and lack of basic services, especially along the frontline. The populations along the frontline in the oblasts of Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaphorizhia, Dnipro, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Donetsk have the highest humanitarian needs. The uncertainty of frontline movements and the evolution of the conflict in general requires flexible programming to assist the most vulnerable populations in the most affected areas.
Objectives Ensure safe access to water, sanitation and heating services to the conflict-affected population.
Target groups • Vodakanals (VK) / Central heating tilities / City councils (municipalities) • Civilian populations in conflictaffected reas, prioritizing the most vulnerable relying on public water & sanitation and heating services
Medium-term outcomes 1) Emergency repairs to damaged water supply, sanitation and heating systems along the frontline are conducted and access to water to conflictaffected communities restored. 2) Water supply and sanitation systems in selected towns are modernized and optimized through systematic and structural improvements. 3) Innovative solutions to inform wider reconstruction efforts and build-back-better approaches are actively piloted and operationalized.
Results Expected results: 1) a) Emergency responses related to water supply, sanitation and heating are implemented based on needs; b) Emergency drinking water distribution to disconnected communities and during repairs; c) Energy backup solutions are sought and heating systems are supported; 2) a) Rehabilitation of critical water supply and sanitation infrastructure, including energy efficient solutions (e.g. solar power plants); b) Provision of engineering designs, feasibility studies and master plans. c) Provision of construction materials, equipment and machinery for water and sanitation networks, including training on new equipment. 3) a) Circular constru
