Enabling the local response: Emerging humanitarian priorities in Ukraine March–May 2022

Three months after the Russian invasion in late February 2022, an estimated 16 million Ukrainians, displaced from their homes or struggling to survive under extreme conflict conditions, urgently require humanitarian assistance. What amounts to a massive, sudden-onset emergency involving high risks for aid operations has brought challenges both new and familiar to the international aid system. Although the situation continues to change daily, some key features and issues of the evolving aid response have come into view. This brief describes the state of the humanitarian response in Ukraine in the first quarter of the invasion. 

More information about the review is available under the project page. Download the Ukrainian translation of the report here.