The recovery spending watchdog №8. Special topic: residential recovery

The Centre for Economic Strategy cordially invites you to participate in in the presentation of the April issue of our regular publication «The recovery spending watchdog». We will traditionally review the most important news from the recovery sector and analyse public spending on recovery projects over the past month. The special topic of the event is residential recovery.

According to the “Russia Will Pay” project, as of the end of 2023, Russians have caused $58.9 billion in damage to the housing stock. The total number of destroyed or damaged facilities is about 250,000 buildings. To rebuild housing, the Ukrainian government has launched several programmes – VidnovyDim, eVidnovlennya and others.

At the event, we will discuss how housing reconstruction is financed and what the state policy in this area should be. We will invite relevant civil society initiatives, government officials and representatives of organisations that support internally displaced people to participate in the discussion.

Invited participants:

• Mykola Boiko, Deputy Head of Kyiv Regional State Administration;
• Anastasia Burau, deputy advocacy coordinator at CF “Right to Defense”;
• Alyona Krytsuk, Head of the Board and co-founder of the volunteer initiative Brave to Rebuild;
• Daria Kosyakova, co-founder of the volunteer initiative “Repair Together”;
• Denys Sudilkovskyi, Chief Brand and Business Officer at LUN.

Moderator: Maria Repko, Deputy Director at the Centre for Economic Strategy.

The event will be held in Ukrainian with simultaneous translation into English.

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.