On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. The active conflict continues two years on, with 3.67 million Ukrainians displaced internally and 5.97 million Ukrainians displaced across Europe (UN OCHA Feb 2024). Established in 2019, CORE's Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF) is a strategic and vital tool available to donors to pool their contributions into single, unearmarked funds to enable humanitarian partners to deliver timely, coordinated and principled assistance within the framework of Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) and Flash Appeals.
This learning brief focuses specifically on lessons drawn from the UHF-supported rental assistance program, which was implemented from November 2023 to June 2024 in Lviv and Lvivska oblast, and includes recommendations for scaling in this context.