📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: CARE Austria, Association for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid
Country: Ukraine Contract type: Standardvertrag Project start: 15.12.2025 Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 End: 14.12.2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The aim of this project is to strengthen resilient protection systems and urgent services for women, girls and other most at risk-groups in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.
Expected results
- provision of safe, timely, and quality protection services, including gender-based violence (GBV) and psychosocial support (PSS),
- community protection mechanisms are formed, trained, and supported,
- tailored capacity-strengthening interventions implemented to improve the quality, accountability, and sustainability of formal protection systems,
- a crisis modifier mechanism is operationalized to enable emergency protection responses.
Target group / Beneficiaries
With the Austrian contribution, CARE will reach a total of 7,792 beneficiaries (5,906 female, 1,886 male; including 1,520 people with disabilities) with urgently needed protection services.
Location: Ukraine, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts
Activities
Provide support to existing service points (including one community center) and expand mobile outreach teams, case management, integrated with cash for protection, in the community center and through mobile outreach, internal and external referrals for individuals to access critical, life-saving and multi-sectoral services, tailored psychosocial as well as legal support in Community Center and through mobile outreach, provide critical and life-saving protection information, including GBV, available services and how to access them, through awareness raising sessions and information campaigns; Establish community-based protection mechanisms and train community volunteers and local representatives on protection principles, GBV, psychological first aid, and identification and safe referral; Train local protection service providers on specialized GBV and PSS topics, train non-protection service providers on protection principles, GBV, psychological first aid (PFA) and identification and safe referrals; Rapid response through the activation of the crisis modifier to maintain protection services in case of a sudden emergency escalation.
Context
Entering its fourth year, the war in Ukraine continues to devastate civilian life, leaving millions displaced, services disrupted, and communities exposed to acute protection risks, particularly in Eastern and Southern oblasts. Women, girls, men, and boys face overlapping vulnerabilities shaped by gender, age, disability, ethnicity, and displacement, with GBV risks escalating amid widespread insecurity, economic decline, and service gaps. Women and girls in frontline, rural, and collective settings are disproportionately affected, while men, boys, Roma, LGBTQI+, older people, and PwD face distinct but often overlooked risks. Despite humani
