The U.S. Department of State and the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) have announced the creation of the Ukraine Cities Partnership (UCP) for Sustainable Urban Recovery, a new public-private partnership to help Ukrainians redesign and rebuild sustainable, inclusive, and resilient cities.
The State Department and GMF will work together to bring key stakeholders, technical experts, and funding partners to the UCP effort, harnessing the energy and ingenuity of business and the private sector, universities, non-governmental organizations, and foundations.
Serving as the OCP Secretariat, GMF will establish new transatlantic partnerships, programs and alliances between European and American organizations to support the recovery and reconstruction of up to three Ukrainian cities. In this process, UCP will help empower a new generation of Ukrainian city officials, urban planners, architects, engineers, and construction teams to better rebuild with sustainable methods.
The UCP will engage and coordinate with the Government of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) and its member states, multilateral development banks and bilateral donors to help beneficiary cities find the resources they need to rebuild. Conceived as a three-year initiative, the UCP will be officially launched at the June Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin and will begin when the cities are ready to get started.
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