Ukraine
Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, the war in Ukraine has caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Millions of women, men, and children have been put at grave risk, facing large-scale displacement both within the country and across borders.
Communities continue to experience disruptions to basic services, destruction of critical infrastructure, and limited access to essential resources.
The ongoing violence has also exposed people to severe trauma, protection risks, and rising mental health challenges, all of which deeply affect their wellbeing, dignity, and overall quality of life.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, the war in Ukraine has created one of the largest humanitarian crises in Europe. Nearly 13 million people now require humanitarian assistance, with 3.7 million internally displaced and more than 5.6 million Ukrainian refugees registered across Europe. Ongoing attacks continue to damage civilian infrastructure — including water, electricity, heating systems, and housing — leaving millions without reliable access to basic services, especially in front-line and recently de-occupied areas. Protection risks remain severe: gender-based violence, including domestic and conflict-related sexual violence, continues to rise, particularly in insecure environments such as collective shelters and border areas where support services remain limited. The conflict has also increased the risks of trafficking and exploitation due to displacement, loss of livelihoods, and family separation. Widespread destruction of essential systems has deepened humanitarian needs nationwide, contributing to long-term trauma, erosion of wellbeing, and ongoing threats to the safety and dignity of millions of women, men, and children.
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Who we are
NCA has been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. We operate in the country as part of the DCA-NCA Joint Country Programme in Ukraine (JCPUA), and through our partnership with Swiss Church Aid (HEKS-EPER). Together, we support conflict-affected communities by combining international expertise with strong local leadership.
We work closely with Ukrainian partner organizations across several regions — specifically in the Kyivska, Mykolaivska, Khersonska, and Dnipropetrovska oblasts — ensuring that assistance is community-led, timely, and responsive to the needs on the ground. Our efforts are coordinated with local, regional, and national authorities, as well as UN coordination mechanisms and other humanitarian actors, to ensure an effective, principled, and accountable response.
Protection and Basic Services for Vulnerable Populations
NCA and its partners provide principled, timely, and life-saving protection and basic services to vulnerable people who face imminent protection risks and limited or no access to essential services. The response reaches internally displaced people (IDPs), non-displaced war-affected populations, refugees, and returnees, ensuring their safety, dignity, and wellbeing according to their specific needs.
Since February 2022, the DCA-NCA Joint Country Programme in Ukraine (JCPUA) has reached an estimated 853 644 people as of 1 January 2025, and at the end of this year we eexpect total figure of supported people since begining of the program will be 1 200 000 people.
This figure includes all areas of JCPUA intervention, such as cash assistance, livelihoods support, humanitarian mine action, gender-based violence prevention and response, mental health and psychosocial support, and WASH services.
Key Focus Areas: GBV, Mental Health, and WASH
More than 35 000 people have been reached through GBV and MHPSS interventions in 2024 and 2025 years, including case management, distribution of dignity kits, empowerment and recreational activities, information sessions, mental health support, and resilience-building initiatives for frontline responders.
The WASH response focuses on repairing damaged water, sanitation, and district heating systems, as well as providing emergency water assistance where needed and feasible. As part of its winterization efforts, NCA is supporting vulnerable households and communities to prepare for harsh winter conditions. In Mykolaiv, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, JCPUA is implementing small- and medium-scale infrastructure repairs in close collaboration with Ukrainian partner organizations.
Additional activities across Khersonska and Mykolaivska oblasts include restoring gas and water supply in de-occupied villages, replacing windows, and repairing both private homes and public facilities. To date, more than 568 915 people have benefitted from repairs to public water and heating infrastructure— including in collective shelters — as well as from the distribution of gender- and age-appropriate hygiene kits.
Humanitarian response
NCA and partners’ response in Ukraine is focused on responding to immediate, humanitarian needs as well as the provision of basic services, corresponding the strategic objectives in the Humanitarian Needs Overview and Response Plan for Ukraine and to the priorities for humanitarian assistance outlined in Norway’s Nansen Support Programme for Ukraine.
To do this in a sustainable way and in line with priorities of the UN WASH cluster, local authorities and communities, our work includes some more long-term programmatic activities like repair or upgrade of existing WASH systems or construction of new ones, where deemed necessary to meet the need of the affected population. This includes supporting local water authorities with material and equipment, that will enable them to sustain services in the long term.
Norwegian Church Aid in Ukraine
Been present since
2022
in Ukraine
In 2024, we spent
7.102.515
EURO in Ukraine
Partners
- In addition to HEKS-EPER, the following local partners are part of NCA’s response in 2025: Angels of Salvation, Southern Development Strategy, Youth of Ukraine, Ukraine Education Platform, Camino, Peaceful Heaven of Kharkiv in Ukraine
- The response is planned, implemented and monitored in partnership with national, regional and local authorities and national organisations and cluster coordination structures, and is complementary to responses provided by other actors.
Where we work
NCA’s country office in Ukraine is the JCPUA (DCA-NCA in Ukraine) office in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv. Activities are carried out in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.
Country Director Ukraine
Peter Bo Larsen
Tel: +45 29 70 06 01
E-mail:
pbl@dca.dk
LinkedIn:
Peter Bo Larsen