Resilient communities are key to Ukraine's recovery - URCS Director General
Resilient communities are the key to the country's recovery, says Director General of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) Maksym Dotsenko.
"Today, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society shows by its example that humanitarian response should be accompanied by early recovery in full compliance with government strategies and the long-term goal of creating conditions for the future return of citizens. The country's recovery begins at the community level... Resilient communities are the key to the country's recovery," Dotsenko said at the panel "More Food Aid: National Societies as Leaders in Early Recovery" at the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva.
As the URCS reported on Facebook, representatives of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and their colleagues from the United States, Turkey, and Syria told how humanitarian crises structured and influenced the formation of recovery plans in their countries.
According to Jarrett Barrios, senior vice president of international services and military affairs at the American Red Cross, it is the communities that own their own recovery plans, but the funding for these plans must be sufficient to meet needs in accordance with the social vulnerability index.
