Ukraine

Launch of the National Policy Dialogue (NPD): 2007, relaunch in 2016 under the EUWI+

NPD Chair and strategic partners: Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, State Agency of Water Resources.

Donors: European Union through the EU4Environement programme, EUWI+ programme and previous EUWI phases.

Key achievements:

• The State Programme on Water Sector Development up to 2020 adopted (2009). It addressed climate change adaptation and implementation of the river basin management approaches.  
• Development of the National Water Strategy of Ukraine till 2050 supported (OECD) and   adopted (2022). 
• Original national targets drafted under the UNECE-WHO/Europe Protocol on Water and Health and adopted (2011). Targets revised (2019) and became a part of the National Water Strategy of Ukraine till 2050 (2022). 
• Methodological support to the preparation of the National Summary Report of Ukraine under the Protocol on Water and Health (2019) UKR_Summary_report_Protocol_W_H_Eng.pdf (unece.org). 
• Support to drafting a water and sanitation chapter for the National Water Strategy till (2020) 
• A methodology for the monitoring of hydro morphological changes in transitional waters developed and approved by the government (2023). 
• Methodology for assessment of the ecological status of surface waters with detailed description of chemical, biological, river basin specific chemicals developed and approved by the government (2023). 
• Support to Ukraine's participation in the ICPDR meetings (2022-24).  
• Support to the meetings of the Moldovan-Ukrainian Dniester Commission and its working groups (2022-24). 
• Development (2021-23) and signing (2024) the Moldovan-Romanian-Ukrainian Prut Trilateral Declaration.  
• Support for data collection and reporting under SDG 6.5.2 (2021, 2023). 
• Initiation of the revision of the hydrology curriculum in 7 universities (all universities teaching hydrology) of Ukraine, expanding the classic hydrology curriculum to IWRM (2024).   

Meetings

• The Interministerial steering committee of the NPD  (19-20 June 2024)
• The NPD Steering Committee (15-16 June 2023)
• National Policy Dialogue on Water (5-6 November 2019)
• The 2nd NPD Steering Committee (28 November 2017)
• The 1st NPD Steering Committee (28 March 2017)
• Steering Committee Meeting in Ukraine (10 - 11 November 2010)
• The 3rd Steering Committee meeting in Ukraine (29 October 2009)
• The 2nd meeting under "Dniester III" Project (15 - 16 October 2009)