Green Recovery of Ukraine

What is green recovery?

Green recovery is the reconstruction of infrastructure and the economy with priority on sustainability, energy efficiency, protection of the environment, and citizen participation. It combines transparent environmental procedures (EIA, SEA, integrated permit) with modern monitoring, planning, and financing tools.

The course will help you understand the roles of citizens, authorities, and business, as well as provide practical algorithms for influencing decisions related to the environment.

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For who this course?

The course will be useful for:

active citizens and civil activists;
representatives of local government;
regional and local environmental initiatives and NGOs;
journalists and media who explain environmental issues;
business and consultants working on recovery projects.

If you want to learn how to influence decisions related to reconstruction and the environment in your community - this course is for you.

What you will learn from our course?

The course consists of a series of video lectures and supplementary materials. After completing it, you will better understand how the decision-making system works for reconstruction and the environment, and you will know how to influence these decisions.

Why green recovery is an opportunity?

Why the "green" approach differs from the usual "build as before".
How to avoid losing the opportunity for modernizing infrastructure and the economy.
Examples of decisions that make communities more resilient.

Citizen participation

How citizens can influence decisions related to the environment.
What rights citizens have and how to implement them.
Participation tools: public consultations, appeals, complaints, advocacy campaigns.

Monitoring the state of the environment

Where to get data on air, water, waste, and other environmental indicators.
How to practically use services SaveEcoBot.
How to interact with regulatory bodies and report violations.

Recovery plans

What to pay attention to in recovery programs for cities/regions.
How to analyze projects for environmental risks.
How to propose alternatives and demand environmental considerations.

Video lectures

Watch a series of educational videos on green recovery (currently only in Ukrainian).

Regional pages about the state of the environment in the SaveEcoBot system

Within the "Green Recovery of the South of Ukraine: the power of citizens" project, we created separate online pages about the state of the environment for four regions in the SaveEcoBot system. They collect environmental data in a convenient format, including air and water quality, waste, and other important environmental indicators.

For whom these pages will be useful:

• citizens who want to understand what they breathe and what is happening to the environment in their region;
• government bodies and cities planning recovery infrastructure;
• journalists and civil society organizations that shed light on environmental issues.