Residents of Donetsk oblast can now obtain information regarding state-funded medicines available in all hospitals of the region through web-site http://eliky.in.ua/. Rivne, Odesa, Khmelnytsky and Zaporizhzhya regions and partly Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Volyn, Zakarpattya, Luhansk, Ternopil regions and the city of Kyiv are currently connected to the platform.

Starting from June 2017, the State Employment Service of Ukraine is piloting new approaches to better integrate into the labour market people from vulnerable groups, following a methodology developed by UNDP. These pilots are now underway in seven out of the 27 regions of Ukraine. We can learn from the experience of other countries which already went through this transformation adopting concepts such as activation, client orientation, case-based profiling, and individual work plans development.

UN Development Programme in Ukraine (UNDP) is to hold a business event, East Expo 2017, involving the leading small and medium enterprises from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. This two-day event will take place in Kyiv.

The United Nations Development Programme is procuring medicines not only for Ukraine, but now also for neighboring Moldova. Procurement through UNDP allowed a Ukrainian manufacturer to reach a new market.

The Black Sea has twice as much floating plastic as any other sea in Europe, according to an environmental survey funded by the European Union and UNDP. Mobile application deployed to help revive affected waters.

The balance of economic, social and environmental goals is the ideal model of sustainable development, and it is not easy to reach, since the common perception of development is primarily associated with economic development. The approval and implementation of the Strategy will be one of the steps towards this goal – the transition from ad hoc and barbaric use of natural resources to their balanced use (that is, using them in a way and at pace that do not cause the depletion of resources in the long run and a significant deterioration of their properties). In the nearest future, it is expedient to consider the idea of establishing a Ministry (or an Agency) for sustainable development that will ensure the integration of economic, social and environmental policies, coordination of inter-sectoral interaction, strategic planning for sustainable development, monitoring of the Strategy implementation at different levels.

UNDP firmly believes that peace can be kept and restored if internal to the conflict figures are equipped with expert knowledge, practical skills and solid horizontal network. With the idea UNDP’s Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme started its pilot project Insider Mediation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The first wave of 16 insider mediators have already undergone our course and some drafted their proposals as to suitable forms of conflict transformation in their communities. The next step is ensuring support for their peacebuilding initiatives by UNDP and national experts.

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The Black Sea Monitoring Surveys examined the environmental status of the Black Sea, screened emerging pollutants, studied marine litter and aquatic life below the oxygen layer, and compiled a photographic identity catalogue of dolphins. The research identified most pressing challenges faced by the Black Sea in the last 20 years and highlighted the need for coordinated response of the Black Sea countries in line with the European Union water legislation.

While lowering the price paid by the Government to purchase well established medicines, international procurement is also bringing new medicines, previously unseen in Ukraine, to the country’s patients. The current list of registered medicines in Ukraine counts about 10,000 products, while a lot of high-quality medicines, mostly generics, are still not present on the market.

Kyiv, May 22, 2017 – The Ministry of Health of Ukraine (MOH) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Ukraine report on the current progress in procurement of chemotherapeutic agents, radiopharmaceuticals and drugs for maintenance treatment of cancer patients (program III) and procurement of...