Duration: 1.07.2023 – 30.06.2025
Supported by USAID/PACT
Amount of funding: USD 497,578
The project aims to strengthen and develop its institutional capacities and organisational resilience by enhancing its analytical, research, advocacy, and communications capacities. Significant portion of our project and efforts are being dedicated to the strengthening of SfPA’s visibility in the international expert community by disseminating our research and advocating policy propositions as well as raising international audience awareness of the war in Ukraine and (post)-conflict resolution efforts and initiatives.
We also aim to promote social cohesion in the newly liberated areas of Ukraine and to advocate to national and local policy-makers as well as international stakeholders evidence-based (post-)conflict policy decisions grounded into our comprehensive research of socio-political and cultural discourses and practices related to the temporarily occupied territories and newly liberated areas of Ukraine in the East and South of Ukraine. The research part of the project involves surveys, focus groups in the communities within NLA of the East and South of Ukraine, interviews, media analysis, etc.
Thematically our research will focus on topics of
- popular attitudes within NLA communities toward different categories of internally or externally displaced people, people who lived in occupation, people who left and/returned to these communities, people in temporary occupied territories of Ukraine etc.;
- The demand for justice and transitional justice;
- (local) governance and civic engagement practices in the NLA;
- (dis)informational sphere, discourses, and narratives in the NLA/TOT;
- cultural and commemorative practices, discourses, politics in the NLA/TOT.
The results are used to develop public policy documents, recommendations, and interactions with government agencies, international organisations, the media, and the public as well as to facilitate social cohesion in selected target communities through mediated dialogues.