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Immediately after signing of the Grant and Financial Agreement for ‘Promotion of Social Infrastructure Development - USIF VIII’ Project implementation USIF launched corresponding awareness raising campaign in the regions, covered by the Project.
In the period from 10 to 12 February USIF regional offices provided interested communities and medical institutions of Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions with detailed information about the Project and subproject competition requirements.
Similar information conferences for representatives of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions will be held on February 15 and 16.
The aforementioned Grant and Project Agreement was signed on February 8 in Kyiv by Olaf Zymelka, Director of the Department of German State Development Bank KfW, Oleksiy Reznikov, Vice-Prime-Minister of Ukraine - Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine and Andriy Laktionov, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Social Investment Fund in the presence of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Anka Feldhuzen.
The aim of the Project in respect of which the Agreement was concluded is to strengthen medical institutions capacities to withstand threats and consequences of the pandemic by their energy efficiency renovation and provision of necessary medical equipment.
To this end, German Government allocates through the State German Development Bank KfW grant funds in the total amount of 13.1 million euros, which will be used to upgrade infrastructure and equip with modern medical devices and means of protection of 12 primary and secondary (specialized) medical institutions located in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia oblasts and in regions of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts controlled by Ukrainian Government.
The Project will be implemented by the Ukrainian Social Investment Fund (USIF) over three years period.
The announcement about the start of the subproject competition is expected to be published on USIF website and other information resources in a few coming days.
