Capacity Development Analyst, NPSA-9, DS- Kyiv, DG, National position
Job Description
After more than three years of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the war is entering a new phase, marked by intensified mass attacks with drones and missiles on people and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Such massive and indiscriminate strikes on residential houses, health facilities, schools, and the energy sector across Ukraine inflict increasingly severe hardships on civilians, making Ukraine even more dependent on external support and undermining ongoing and future recovery efforts. The country is now facing an entirely new set of challenges requiring urgent and adaptive recovery measures.
Building on Japan’s extensive expertise and the strong Japan-UNDP partnership in advancing recovery and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP)Nexus in complex crisis contexts such as Ukraine, the provision of urgent, integrated, and multi-sectoral support is critical to address the cumulative damage from the protracted war and the imminent challenges resulting from intensified mass-attacks on civilians in 2025.
This project aims to catalyse urgent recovery and strengthen resilience in response to the surge in deaths, destruction, displacement by recent intensified mass-attacks and cumulative suffering caused by the war in Ukraine. It seeks to promote Human Security by implementing immediate and coordinated responses to the interconnected and multidimensional threats that the country is currently facing, while strategically leveraging Japan’s experience, technologies, and expertise to address challenges in recovery in Ukraine.
The complex and compounded crises in Ukraine call for a holistic, multi-sectoral approach that transcends sectoral boundaries and prioritizes the needs of the most affected populations, requiring tailored and integrated forms of supports with three strategic focuses on:
- Essential Basic Services and a Safe Living Environment
- Socio-Economic Resilience
- Transparent and Accountable Recovery Process
This project intends to demonstrate a proof of concept for the 'Co-Creation' cooperation approach by strategically leveraging Japan’s knowledge, technologies, and expertise to address urgent recovery needs in Ukraine and creating an enabling environment where the private sector, either domestic or international, including Japanese, can engage and take part in bringing and accelerating Ukraine’s build-back-bette...
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