TechnoForum in Kyiv region: DREAM helps communities implement restoration projects and attract funding

Representatives of Kyiv region communities and municipalities, international organizations, businesses, and the region's IT community discussed the potential of digital restoration tools and the effectiveness of implementing IT solutions for restoration and development.

At the first TechnoForum in the BIG region (Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel) of Kyiv region, which took place in Bucha on October 2 and gathered 118 participants, the DREAM Project Office team presented the ecosystem's opportunities to project initiators and international partners in Ukraine's restoration.



In particular, Viktor Nestulia, Head of the Project Office, noted that the primary goal of DREAM is to create a "single window" for planning, developing, and managing restoration and modernization projects to ensure transparency and accountability of their implementation at all stages through integration with government IT systems and services and to effectively cooperate with stakeholders, international partners, and project initiators. Viktor Nestulia emphasized that DREAM helps analyze the need, better plan restoration, create projects, and present them to the world—both at the community level and based on strategic decisions at the national level.


He added that the ecosystem builds international partners' trust in Ukraine's restoration process. The governments of Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Switzerland, as well as international financial organizations, including the European Investment Bank and charitable organizations, are among the donors already cooperating with DREAM and financing restoration projects.

For his part, Denys Ivanov, Head of Implementation, DREAM Project Office, spoke about the results of the distribution of state subvention for the arrangement of shelters and food blocks in educational institutions using the ecosystem. He noted that those communities with experience with DREAM and trained to work with the system had a particular advantage and could apply for subventions more efficiently and quickly.



Today, the ecosystem contains more than 7,800 projects worth UAH 426.39 billion from more than 1,200 communities, 24 regional administrations, 17 ministries, the Agency for Restoration and its regional services, etc. In particular, all 69 communities of the Kyiv region work with DREAM, with 1480 projects and a total budget of UAH 85.73 billion. At the same time, 95 projects in the Kyiv region have already been fully funded, and another 286 have received partial funding from both state and local budgets and through the support of international partners. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) supports the region's education projects.

According to Volodymyr Strokan, KfW, UNICEF project coordinator, one condition for the fund's support for the restoration project is it is added to the DREAM ecosystem.



- DREAM allows us to understand the scale and directions of restoration in Ukraine. It is also an essential tool for monitoring the project implementation process to understand how our investments work. Among other things, we control co-financing, and it is an opportunity for us to understand the state's priorities and business in the restoration, - said Volodymyr Strokan.