Strengthening Systems so People can Take Charge: Cash recipient experiences in Ukraine

Ukraine hosts the world’s largest ever humanitarian cash response. It occurs alongside Ukrainian social and financial services that have retained their functionality despite the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022. The humanitarian cash response best supports people’s capacity to cope with the war when it is tailored to local contexts and complements existing institutional structures and local actors, be they local authorities, NGOs, civil society organisations, or community representatives.

This report presents the third round of results of a research project that began in January 2023, in collaboration with the Collaborative Cash Delivery Network, Open Space Works Cooperative and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

We designed the project with local cash actors to ensure relevance for the response.