Top 10 interesting facts about the Ukrainian Social Investment Fund (USIF)
1. USIF was created to implement the World Bank's project “Social Investment Fund”, funded by World Bank credit, Ukrainian state budget funds, and local community contributions
2. USIF has implemented 9 large-scale projects covering all regions of Ukraine.
3. Costs of the projects implemented by USIF exceed 82 million US dollars and come near to 43 million euro.
4. The number of persons benefiting from USIF activities is 1,654,000.
5. The donor funded the largest number of projects is the German Government through the German Development Bank KfW.
6. The donor who funded the largest USIF project is the World Bank.
7. USIF implemented 1273 subprojects (micro projects) at the community level: schools - 565, pre-school educational establishments - 168, water supply facilities - 245, cultural institutions - 82, medical institutions - 74, roads - 28, social services - 85, housing facilities for IDPs - 17, environmental - 9.
8. The maximum number of regional USIF’s offices equaled 7, covering all regions of Ukraine, and employed about 200 persons.
9. The vast majority of tenders for the implementation of subprojects (micro-projects) are conducted by authorized representatives of communities under the World Bank procedures.
10. Since 2013 the quality management system in accordance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001: has been implemented and continually improved by USIF