Project profile — Multisectoral IHA to most vulnerable older people affected by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine

With DFATD’s support, HelpAge is implementing an integrated support package, which includes psychosocial support, protection, hygiene kits, multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA), legal aid, winterisation non-food items (NFIs), to meet the needs of 11,158 older people, caregivers, stakeholders (including 7,811 female and 3,347 male), in Dnipro, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv. HelpAge will suspend its operations in the Donetsk region starting in 2026 - 2027. Project activities include: (1) revising response program activities, outcomes, and monitoring frameworks, to address and monitor specific age and gender-related needs where relevant; (2) providing basic psychosocial support, assistive products, and training on fitting and maintaining devices with older persons and caregivers. Also offering legal, psychological, and social services to at-risk older people; (3) distributing MPCA, winterization non-food items such as winter clothes and blankets, and hygiene kits that include diapers and urological pads, to most at-risk older people. These include those with and without disabilities; and (4) organizing awareness raising workshops and seminars for humanitarian actors on age and disability inclusion.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved access to age and disability inclusive and gender responsive humanitarian support. This is done by contributing to the overall care and wellbeing of at-risk homebound older people, with and without disabilities, and their caregivers in Eastern Ukraine; (2) increased access to basic essential goods and services for at risk older people, with and without disabilities; and (3) improved access to age and disability inclusive and gender responsive humanitarian support and assistance for the most at-risk older people, with and without disabilities, in Eastern Ukraine. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved, suffering alleviated, and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.

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