The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has resulted in extensive damage to the built environment, including housing, public services, and critical infrastructure. This widespread destruction is impacting the availability and accessibility of essential services, influencing displacement dynamics, and affecting livelihoods throughout the country.
A refined understanding of the extent, severity, distribution, and socio-economic repercussions of infrastructure damage is crucial to develop effective and localised measures to mitigate and remediate these impacts. This understanding can inform both immediate humanitarian assistance and longer-term recovery and reconstruction efforts.
REACH contributes to these efforts by producing Damage Impact Analyses, which combine geo-spatial and qualitative data to provide insights into how communities experience and cope with infrastructural damage, highlighting the complex interconnections between affected sectors.
These analyses include indicative sectoral “impact scores” and participatory maps that reflect the perceptions of impacted populations regarding damage impacts. This approach offers a thorough view of the broader implications of infrastructure damage in Ukraine, supporting effective, informed decisionmaking for recovery and reconstruction initiatives.