Is Ukraine prepared for the academic year? Restoring educational facilities

As of the beginning of August, the number of damaged and destroyed educational institutions exceeded 3,800. It is crucial to restore the population’s access to educational services, especially with the new academic year approaching.

During the event, project experts presented an overview of the reconstruction of damaged and destroyed educational institutions and, as usual, reviewed the most significant changes in the recovery efforts over the past month.

Following this, together with invited guests, we examined real-life examples of how access to education is being restored for Ukrainians, the approaches of the government and local authorities, and whether Ukraine is ready for the new academic year.

Invited participants:

• Anna Putsova, co-founder and head of regional development of the savED charitable foundation;
• Iryna Minkovska, co-founder and head of the NGO “Me and My School”;
• Tetiana Dolishna, Head of the NGO “Women in Ukraine”;
• Victoria Titova, CEO of Big City Lab urban bureau.

Moderator: Oleksandra Betliy, Lead Expert at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

The release was prepared within the framework of the EU-funded project “The recovery spending watchdog”. Previous releases are available here. The project is a joint effort of the Centre for Economic Strategy, the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, and the NGO “Technologies for Progress”. All project participants are members of the RISE coalition.