Advocacy Programme

Programme Mission

To promote systemic changes that will help better protect the rights, safety, dignity, and interests of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the war-affected population, and other vulnerable groups.

For this, the programme works to improve state policy, legislation, administrative decisions, and their implementation practices, and promotes changes in social perceptions and approaches to human rights protection at the national and local levels.

Programme Vision

To shape a society and a public administration system in which the rights, interests, safety, and dignity of IDPs, the war-affected population, and other vulnerable groups are properly ensured and protected. State and local self-government authorities systematically take their rights and interests into account when formulating and implementing policies, making administrative decisions, and implementing relevant practices.

The advocacy programme of R2P focuses its efforts on the following areas of assistance to IDPs and the war-affected population:

  • promoting the formation of sustainable housing solutions, developing the social housing system, temporary housing funds, rental housing mechanisms, housing loans, and compensation for destroyed or damaged property;
  • strengthening the social protection system, promoting equitable access to social benefits and pensions, and developing the social services system;
  • protecting the rights and interests of residents of the temporarily occupied territories (TOT), in particular by promoting the implementation of administrative procedures of registering births, deaths, the conclusion and dissolution of marriages in the TOT, protecting property rights, and ensuring communication with Ukrainian citizens residing in the TOT;
  • improving state policy in the area of civilian evacuation;
  • developing a policy for the voluntary, safe, and dignified return of Ukrainians displaced abroad and their subsequent reintegration;
  • developing an effective institutional architecture of protection of the war-affected population, interagency coordination, and a comprehensive support system for the population affected by the armed aggression of Russian Federation (RF);
  • strengthening the system of children’s rights protection, developing family-based care, and improving the institutional architecture of childhood protection;
  • improving the policy on preventing and combating gender-based and domestic violence, strengthening the capacity of state authorities to respond to cases of conflict-related sexual violence;
  • protecting the rights of civilians deprived of their liberty as a result of the armed aggression of RF against Ukraine, and developing mechanisms to support them.

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