Capacity-building to Monitor and Implement National Mechanisms to Counter Xenophobia and Discrimination in Ukraine

This project aims to contribute to the protection of the rights of migrants, members of vulnerable groups, and victims through reducing obstacles arising from discrimination and manifestations of hate crime. It aims to achieve this by:

1) Building the capacity of civil society, specialized in the protection of migrants, refugees and national minorities in Ukraine, to monitor and evaluate implementation of the current legislation and policy, and

2) Strengthening the Government of Ukraine’s capacity to carry out state programmes on vulnerable groups’ protection in line with accepted best practices.

The project will be built on the already-functioning platform of the Diversity Initiative (DI) Network, a group of 65 civil society, government and private actors, co-chaired by IOM and UNHCR since 2007.