- Kyiv School of Economics
- Resilience
Resilience
Ukraine’s resilience to the Russian Federation’s War of Aggression was first met with surprise and eventually with admiration among millions of people around the world. Like Ukraine’s Armed Forces and state institutions, the hromadas and local authorities demonstrated resilience in the first year of the full-scale war. Local self-governments adapted to various types of shocks and implemented unique programs and policies, occasionally making mistakes and encountering problems. All this experience is valuable for the further development of resilience at the local level.
We are talking about specific efficiency, which we call resilience. It was this factor that contributed to the ability of local governments, volunteers and the local population to work together to deal with the shocks faced by local hromadas.
Projects:
(De)Centralisation? Trends In The Interaction Of Local Self-Government And State Authorities
The findings of the study are based on 30 interviews with hromada leaders in systematically selected hromadas in 5 regions to cover similar types of hromadas, 5 interviews with the heads or deputy heads of the RMA, 6 interviews with the heads of the DMAs in the study regions, 4 interviews with representatives of regional offices of international cooperation in the study regions, and 2 interviews with the heads of regional offices of the largest donor organisations in Ukraine working in the study hromadas.
Local Democracy and Resilience in Ukraine: Learning from Communities’ Crisis Response in War
While employing a mixed-methods approach, the study involves quantitative analysis of original local authority surveys and qualitative analysis of online interviews and focus group insights. By building upon prior surveys conducted in the pre-war time in 2021 and in the first year of the full-scale invitation in 2022, this research uniquely tracks the evolution of local democracy’s role in resilience.
Support to Decentralization Reform in Ukraine (UDU U-LEAD with Europe. Phase II)
The study of the resilience of territorial communities to the challenges of war and the impact of decentralization reforms on it, is part of a long-term study by the Center for Sociological Research, the Study of Decentralization and Regional Development of the KSE Institute in partnership with the “U-LEAD with Europe” Program, financed by the EU and its member states – Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Slovenia.
The project was conducted in September-December 2022 at the initiative of the Command of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Ukraine. The key goal was to explore the existing relationships between various actors involved in civil-military cooperation
PeaceRep’s Ukraine program with the London School of Economics and Political Science
PeaceRep’s Ukraine research aims to deepen understandings of the war and support ongoing responses to the conflict. PeaceRep’s Ukraine is providing data and analysis on social infrastructures, economies, and institutions with the aim of supporting Ukrainian democracy and territorial integrity in tandem with human rights and security in the wider region.
Mapping Ukraine’s democratic space research project aims to provide granular insight into the evolution and impacts of the war on Ukraine in different local geographies
Policy and media publications
2024 – (De)Centralisation? Trends In The Interaction Of Local Self-Government And State Authorities
2024 – Mapping Ukraine’s Democratic Space: Part 2
2024 – Transparency or Army Aid? What Influences Trust in Local Government in Ukraine?(VoxUkraine)
2023 – Executive Summary on Mapping Ukraine’s democratic space in 40 localities
2023 – Mapping Ukraine’s democratic space in 40 localities(First wave Report)
2023 – Factors of community resilience during the war. Exploring the impact of economics, governance and engagement (In Ukrainian only)
2023 – International partnerships are one of the factors of resilience of Ukrainian hromadas. What can hromadas that are still without a partner do?(In Ukrainian only)
2023 – “Military” PIT: How the Tax Allocation System Can Change and What It Will Lead To
2022 – Resilience of hromadas. Research report (In Ukrainian only)
2022 –What makes territorial communities resilient – the first lessons after February 24
Academic Publications