UNHCR Ukraine provides financial support to families hosting internally displaced people

This week, UNHCR has transferred the first payments of financial support to families hosting internally displaced persons across the country as part of the Government of Ukraine’s Prykhystok programme, which UNHCR will support with 15 million USD in 2024.

Almost four million people continue to be displaced inside Ukraine as IDPs due to Russia’s full-scale war. Some of them are hosted by other Ukrainian families as part of the Government’s Pryhystok programme. ©UNHCR/ Alina Kovalenko

As Russia’s full-scale invasion and attacks on Ukraine continue to displace people from their homes, supporting access to safe and dignified accommodation for internally displaced people (IDPs) remains a vital priority. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is committed to continue supporting the Government of Ukraine in this endeavor.

This week, UNHCR disbursed the first round of financial support to more than 74,000 families who are hosting almost 190,000 IDPs as part of the Prykhystok programme managed by the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.

This programme was initially launched in March 2022 as an important and comprehensive social project to provide free housing for internally displaced people. In 2022, UNHCR provided financial support to some 40,000 families as well as supported the maintenance of the website for the Prykhystok programme.

In agreement with the Ministry of Reintegration – and as per a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and UNHCR’s Representative Karolina Lindholm Billing on 19 December 2023 – UNHCR will expand its support to the Prykhystok programme with a total of 15 million USD in 2024.

The financial support to IDP-hosting families is paid