REMARKET - Recovery and Empowerment through Market Access and Resilient Economic Transformation in Ukraine

1. IDPs, returnees, and host community members who formerly or currently own MSMEs successfully resume economic activity and/or scale up their businesses through targeted financial and business development support.
2. IDPs, returnees, and host community members improve their employability through increased job market access and relevant skill upgrades.
3. Established basis for a partner-led MSD programme.

Principaux résultats attendus:  

1.1 Business grants and business development services delivered to MSMEs for start-up or scaling-up

1.2 Pilot conducted with financial institution(s) to improve MSME financing by introducing tailored MSME loan products for IDPs, returnees, and host community members

2.1 Cash-for-job delivered to IDPs, returnees, and host community members

2.2 Tailored vocational trainings in line with labour market needs delivered to IDPs, returnees, and host community members

3.1 Local MSD capacity and awareness strengthened

3.2 Sector strategies adopted by implementing partners

Principaux résultats antérieurs:  

ELIS pilot project (not SDC-funded)

• Business grants: The provision of business grants and training to 142 micro businesses has promoted selfemployment and entrepreneurship activities, with supported businesses showing strong potential for growth and job creation.
• Cash for job (CfJ): The CfJ component enabled 390 project participants to meet their basic needs, gain work experience, and integrate into host communities.
• Social cohesion: By providing a combination of immediate financial assistance, employment opportunities, and business support, the project met the urgent socio-economic needs of vulnerable groups, particularly IDPs, women, and the economically active population.

C4U2 Project (SDC funded):

• Protection Case Management: Based on lessons learned during the C4U2 project implementation, a key lesson was that frontline workers needed more technical support at local level.
• Disability inclusion: Caritas Ukraine and Caritas Spess have had previous projects targeting persons with disabilities (PWDs) and ethnic minorities but they have been separated from other projects. The lesson learned was that there could be traditionally stigmatised groups who were not accessing services and their views were not well reflected in accessing services.

Caritas Switzerland and its implementing partners are members of several UN clusters, including the Food Security and Livelihood (FSL), and inter-cluster coordination groups in targeted oblasts. Caritas Switzerland participates in the Ukrainian Aid Leadership Group, which agrees on terms of cooperation between international and local NGOs.

The project will collaborate with the SDC funded Ukraine Economic Resilience Program (ERP), led by Mercy Corps and supported by consortium members such as Helvetas and Welthungerhilfe. Contacts are already ongoing and lessons learnt mutually shared.