The overall objective of the intervention is to support the relevant governmental bodies in developing the necessary regulatory and institutional infrastructure to be able to collect and document evidence of the environmental damage, including gender-responsive assessment, and mitigate natural disasters. It is expected that acquired capacity will used be twofold: 1) in the short to middle term, it will enable respective public actors to take forward the documented evidence to make Russia accountable for wrongdoing and claim compensation; 2) in the longer term, it will allow to mitigate the risks of long-term environmental disasters in Ukraine.
The proposed project will comprise of five outputs, namely:
Output 1 - the State Coordination Center for Environmental Damage is established and is capacitated. The activities will be focused on providing advisory and operational support for the development of the legal framework and institutional capacities of this governmental body. The project will contribute to the development of the effective methodologies, legislative background, and technical capacities to record the evidence on environmental damage due to Russian military invasion in Ukraine, analyzing and responding to its different negative effects on women and men.
Output 2 - increased awareness of public and private sector stakeholders and their capability to use the registry on environmental damage. This activity will include development and roll-out of new releases of the registry, expansion of the system functionality and development of additional modules, (e.g. advanced search, invoicing to economic entities through the system, the possibility to publish the results of post project monitoring, post-project alert system, creation of interactive maps, which would simplify access to information of the public concerned and become a part of wider nationwide platform to record environmental damage, support the automation of processes and reports).
Output 3 - communication and awareness-raising campaigns are conducted to inform the general public and key stakeholders about the activities and interaction with the State Coordination Center for Environmental Damage's platform. A two-fold approach to raise awareness will ensure that target audiences are aware of the activities of the Center, availability of the platform and know how to interact with it, and will be accomplished through a range of activities, including dedicated media partnerships and direct two-way communication through owned and public channels.
Output 4 - Gender-responsive assessments of the environmental damage caused by the war is assessed and relevant gender data is collected. Proposed activities oversee establishing the working group on assessing environmental damage. It is expected that the working group will be able to support governmental bodies in providing knowledge on gender issues, organize trainings, meetings. A gender-responsive environmental damage assessment methodology will be developed based on international best practices (including UNDRR approach) and in coordination with other sectors to ensure consistency and avoid duplication (expert, publication, design, presentation, public event). In addition, the project is expected to conduct gender-responsive environmental damage assessment.
Output 5 - certified mobile stations for measuring environmental data for the Coordination Centre for Environmental Damage are procured. Its expected that the project will be able to purchase certified mobile stations for measuring environmental data for the Coordination Centre. Trainings and technical support to the civil servants on usage of the certified mobile stations for the SOC will be provided.
