Ensuring Decent Accommodation for People in Need of Inpatient Care During Mass Displacement

Human rights and civil society organizations, including East SOS, are calling on the Government of Ukraine, public authorities, and international and national partners to guarantee safe evacuation and decent accommodation for people in need of inpatient care during mass displacement.

The joint position developed by the organizations emphasizes that, amid the ongoing war, the state must ensure evacuation and provide dignified living conditions, supported living or residential care services, and continuity of care after evacuation.

The statement highlights the urgent need to introduce clear transitional solutions within the support system during wartime and large-scale evacuation. Temporary accommodation mechanisms must be clearly regulated, with defined terms and conditions, to prevent them from becoming permanent placements.

At the same time, it is essential to strengthen and expand community-based social services – including supported living, home care, day care, and social support – in line with the deinstitutionalization reform and Ukraine’s European integration commitments.

In this context, the state must act simultaneously in two directions: to save lives and provide temporary accommodation in safer regions, while also creating conditions for people’s gradual transition to sustainable, community-based services in host communities.

Organizations call on:

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to:

• Define a clear mechanism for crisis temporary accommodation, including periodic assessment of individual needs and determination of further forms of support;
  
• Recognize residential care and assisted living services for evacuees and internally displaced persons as social services of national importance, and ensure their funding from the state budget of Ukraine.

Partners to: direct financial and technical assistance toward evacuation efforts, adaptation and strengthening of institutions receiving evacuees, and the development of social services within host communities.

You can read the full text of the appeal below.

The document was signed by:

• East SOS Charity Foundation
  
• ZMINA Human Rights Center
  
• Crisis Insight NGO
  
• Stabilization Support Services Charity Foundation
  
• Donbas SOS NGO
  
• CrimeaSOS NGO
  
• Crimean Human Rights Group
  
• Civil Holding “Group of Influence”
  
• ROKADA Charitable Foundation
  
• Right to Protection Charitable Foundation

Recently, human rights organizations have analyzed draft laws aimed at prohibiting the eviction of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from their places of temporary residence.