Building partnerships for Ukraine’s water sector recovery at IFAT 2026

Dur­ing IFAT 2026 in Munich, the work­shop “From Projects to Part­ner­ships: Oppor­tu­ni­ties in IFI-Fund­ed Water Infra­struc­ture Projects in Ukraine” brought togeth­er around 80 par­tic­i­pants from Ger­man and Ukrain­ian busi­ness­es, finan­cial insti­tu­tions, and sec­tor organ­i­sa­tions.

The event was joint­ly organ­ised by Agen­tur für Wirtschaft und Entwick­lung, AHK Ukraine, Ger­man Water Part­ner­ship, and FELICITY II, cre­at­ing a plat­form for dia­logue on the recov­ery and mod­erni­sa­tion of Ukraine’s water infra­struc­ture. Par­tic­i­pants explored the sector’s invest­ment needs, upcom­ing projects sup­port­ed by inter­na­tion­al finan­cial insti­tu­tions, pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures, and approach­es to build­ing effec­tive part­ner­ships and con­sor­tia.

Par­tic­u­lar atten­tion was giv­en to iden­ti­fy­ing prac­ti­cal path­ways for trans­lat­ing avail­able financ­ing into imple­mentable infra­struc­ture projects. The work­shop also pro­vid­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty for Ukrain­ian and Ger­man stake­hold­ers to estab­lish new pro­fes­sion­al con­nec­tions and explore avenues for future coop­er­a­tion. As Ukraine con­tin­ues to rebuild and mod­ernise its water sec­tor, inter­na­tion­al part­ner­ships remain essen­tial for mobil­is­ing exper­tise, tech­nol­o­gy, and invest­ment need­ed to deliv­er resilient and sus­tain­able ser­vices.

By fos­ter­ing dia­logue between munic­i­pal­i­ties, util­i­ties, finan­cial insti­tu­tions, and the pri­vate sec­tor, FELICITY II con­tributes to cre­at­ing the con­di­tions nec­es­sary for long-term invest­ment and sus­tain­able infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment in Ukraine’s water sec­tor.

FELICITY II is an inter­na­tion­al ini­tia­tive sup­port­ing sus­tain­able urban infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment in East­ern Euro­pean and Cen­tral Asia coun­tries, aim­ing to reduce green­house gas emis­sions. The pro­gramme pro­vides tech­ni­cal and ana­lyt­i­cal assis­tance to munic­i­pal­i­ties to help them design and imple­ment cli­mate-friend­ly invest­ments in water sup­ply, waste­water man­age­ment, and ener­gy-effi­cient build­ings. 

FELICITY II is imple­ment­ed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH in coop­er­a­tion with the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank and with the sup­port of the Ger­man Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment, under the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI).