Institutional development in the Center of social-humanitarian aspects of SSU regional research
(institutional grant)
July 2020-October 2021
Purpose: To upgrade skills for the Center of Social-Humanitarian Aspects of SSU Regional Researches as a separate university unit; to raise analysis quality and/or outer communication.
Tasks:
– to approve the 2024 Working Strategy for the Social Research Center, the Act on the Social Research Center, the Resolution on the Supervisory Board for the Social Research Center;
– to draft the conflict, equality, analysis quality, reporting policies for the Social Research Center;
– to upgrade the Center staff skills via online and offline trainings (home and foreign);
– to conduct studies.
Supporters: The Ukrainian Think Tank Development Initiative (implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for Europe; funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine).
Research motives and barriers at Sumy State University
(cooperation with the SSU Research Department)
June-August 2021
Purpose: 1. To define motive types that make SSU members conduct studies; to single out key barriers (within university units) against research activities. 2. To create recommendations for the SSU research upgrade; to amend its framework (encouragement rules, management innovations).
Tasks:
– to determine quantitative and qualitative indexes of research attitudes and motives for SSU members (identifications, interest, cash, self-assertion, etc.);
– to assess the university or unit assistance in research development;
– to detect barriers that complicate or stop studies among SSU members.
Supporters: The Ukrainian Think Tank Development Initiative (implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for Europe; funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine; in cooperation with Anatolii Chornous, the SSU vice-rector for research).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/68PXuiU
Expectation and readiness of employers to train social experts
(research)
June-September 2021
Purpose: To define employers’ expectations for future social experts and readiness in training them.
Tasks:
– to create profession maps for future social experts;
– to determine actual potential positions in different social sectors to employ new people;
– to grade employers’ readiness in training future social experts.
Supporters: The Ukrainian Think Tank Development Initiative (implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for Europe; funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/48PXj5a
Human motivation to/not to observe quarantine restrictions in Ukraine
(research)
November-December 2020
Purpose: To analyze factors of human behavior within pandemics (observing / not observing quarantine restrictions); to provide the COVID-19 recommendations in forming and changing the long-term communication between people.
Tasks:
– to single out the Ukrainian COVID-19 fears (personal and interpersonal risks to fall ill, suffer or die);
– to define causes of COVID-19 fears (to fall ill, suffer or die);
– to track dynamics of pandemic anxiety within March-December 2020;
– to measure levels of COVID-19 human knowledge and current informing problems;
– to assess human trust to the official COVID-19 information and medical facilities;
– to value Ukrainian attitude to quarantine restrictions;
– to determine causes and motives of observing / not observing quarantine restrictions;
– to establish factors of human behavior change to keep healthy.
Supporters: The Ukrainian Think Tank Development Initiative (implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for Europe; funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/w8PXQ7q
Analysis of the ukrainian decentralization reform: gender equality and human rights
(research)
(in cooperation with the Center for Civic Initiatives “The Intelligence of Sumy Region”)
March-December 2021
Purpose: To detect and analyze decentralization consequences for affected males and females (in terms of gender equality and human rights).
Tasks:
– to analyze the current human right standards, acts or other sources about affected males and females;
– to poll pilot local communities;
– to establish complex decentralization measures for removing right or need gaps among affected females.
Supporters: The UN Women project “Promoting Gender Equality and Extending Women’s Rights and Opportunities within the Decentralization Reform in Ukraine” (funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/y8PXDgw
Accessibility to and quality of online and offline work in Administrative Service Centers (local communities of Sumy and Chernivtsi Regions)
(research)
June-November 2021
Purpose: To assess accessibility to and quality of online and offline work in Administrative Service Centers; to make corresponding recommendations for local authorities (Sumy and Chernivtsi Regions).
Tasks:
– to evaluate level of need for offline and online administrative services (state business registration, pension, social issues) in Administrative Service Centers of Sumy and Chernivtsi Regions (regional, remote, mobile);
– to define barriers of accessibility to and quality of offline and online administrative services in Administrative Service Centers of Sumy and Chernivtsi Regions (regional, remote, mobile);
– to make recommendations for local authorities to enhance accessibility to and quality of offline and online administrative services in Administrative Service Centers (regional, remote, mobile).
Supporters: The International Renaissance Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for Europe (funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/G8PXV9a
Road map development to prevent gynaecological cancer in Sumy Region
(research)
June-November 2021
Purpose: To analyze dynamics of gynaecological cancer in Sumy Region; to assess the urban and rural female attitude to cancer threats and their prevention; to define barriers of cancer prevention and its early diagnosing. The road map is planned to prevent gynaecological cancer in Sumy Region (including the local authority recommendations to raise cancer prevention among urban and rural females).
Tasks:
– to measure the scope of gynaecological cancer diagnosing and treatment within urban and rural communities in Sumy Region;
– to determine legal, institutional, economic, informational and social-cultural barriers in females’ use of urban and rural services to diagnose and prevent gynaecological cancer on the initial medical aid stage (here, the model of “gender analysis +” is applied in different local communities).
Supporters: The International Renaissance Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for Europe (funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/Q8PX7h9
Sustainable development for the Social Research Center of Sumy State University
(institutional grant)
July-December 2022
Purpose: To secure the wartime sustainable development for the Social Research Center at Sumy State University via constant study and analysis of the Ukrainian recovery means, which is further applied by local and state authorities.
Tasks:
– to update the 2024 Strategy of Sustainable Development Goals;
– to broaden security, conflict, monitoring and assessing policies;
– to evaluate and train staff skills;
– to establish new partnerships;
– to conduct the research “Social Resilience of Wartime Local Communities: Recovery Abilities”.
Supporters: The Ukrainian Think Tank Development Initiative (implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for Europe; funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/M8PZs7J
Gender aspects of social resilience in local communities
(research)
July-November 2022
Purpose: To increase social resilience in local communities via created recommendations for authorities, which makes the sensitive males and females’ access to employment, services, wartime public participation.
Tasks:
– to poll the local community needs (Sumy, Lviv, Kyiv and Mykolaiv Regions);
– to analyze programs of efficient need satisfaction for sensitive population groups;
– to participate in strategic missions for poll consideration and result re-evaluation;
– to represent and advance research results.
Supporters: The Women’s Consortium of Ukraine and the Social Research Center at Sumy State University (within the Ukrainian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/Y8PZbaK
Shelter security: for women, children and everybody
(humanitarian project)
(in cooperation with the Center for Civic Initiatives “The Intelligence of Sumy Region”)
March-June 2022
Purpose: To provide shelters with first aid and survival kits for women, children and elderly people.
Tasks:
– to get first aid and survival kits for shelter safety;
– to make some visual first aid stands in shelters.
Supporters: The project “Fast-Track Grants” within the Ukrainian Women’s Fund.
Link: https://cutt.ly/98PZPrr
Creation of the regional partnership network of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund to raise the local female participation in initiatives
(network project)
(in cooperation with the Center for Civic Initiatives “The Intelligence of Sumy Region”)
July 2022 – March 2024
Purpose: To involve females of Sumy Region in project initiatives.
Tasks:
– to cooperate with regional female organizations and activists;
– to share information on grant contests and other project opportunities;
– to collect research data;
– to consult local authorities for grant offer preparation;
– to develop project strategies and primary grant aids to include local female needs;
– to adapt project initiatives locally;
– to monitor regional project grantors.
Supporters: The project “Women’s Voice and Leadership – Ukraine” (implemented by the Ukrainian Women’s Fund; financed by the Canadian government).
Urgent assessment of residents’ needs in Sumy Region
(research)
(in cooperation with the Center for Civic Initiatives “The Intelligence of Sumy Region”)
May-June 2022
Purpose: To make a quick assessment of residents’ needs in Sumy Region for upgrading humanitarian programs (efficient need satisfaction among sensitive people), social provisions and local recovery.
Tasks:
– to value needs of sensitive groups (currently in Sumy Region or abroad);
– to value social resilience of local communities in Sumy Region (urban and rural areas);
– to make a draft post-assessment project for upgrading humanitarian programs (efficient need satisfaction among sensitive people), social provisions and local recovery;
– to organize joint strategic sessions (sensitive people, authorities, business, experts, mass media) to consider and reconsider the obtained recommendations;
– to represent the recommendations for local authorities and mass media.
Supporters: The European Union and the International Renaissance Foundation (within the grant component of the EU4USociety project).
Full report (in Ukrainian): https://cutt.ly/48PZLSu
Сash, basic needs and protection support to conflict-affected populations in Eastern and Central Ukraine
(humanitarian project)
(in cooperation with the Center for Civic Initiatives “The Intelligence of Sumy Region”)
July-December 2022
Purpose: To provide humanitarian and psychological aid for females with children, tutors, disabled or displaced persons on liberated or damaged areas.
Tasks:
– to assess needs;
– to organize mobile aid teams;
– to provide psychological aid;
– to provide humanitarian aid.
Supporters: The project “Cash, Basic Needs and Protection Support to Conflict-Affected Populations in Eastern and Central Ukraine” (financed by the International Rescue Committee; implemented by the Ukrainian Women’s Fund).
Link: https://cutt.ly/88PZ35U
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