FELICITY II at the Water Recovery Forum

On 14 Novem­ber 2025, dur­ing ReBuild Ukraine in War­saw, the FELICITY II team took part in the Water Recov­ery Forum, which brought togeth­er nation­al and inter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers to dis­cuss the recov­ery and mod­erni­sa­tion of Ukraine’s water sec­tor.

Reli­able water sup­ply and waste­water man­age­ment are essen­tial for pub­lic health, envi­ron­men­tal safe­ty, and local eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment. How­ev­er, due to war dam­age, under­fund­ing, and grow­ing cli­mate risks, the sec­tor is fac­ing unprece­dent­ed chal­lenges, requir­ing for­ward-look­ing, inte­grat­ed solu­tions.

FELICITY II is con­tribut­ing in sev­er­al key areas:

— Sup­port­ing the prepa­ra­tion of invest­ment-ready projects with water util­i­ties in Sumy, Khmel­nyt­skyi, Talne, Per­vo­maisk, and Hor­ish­ni Plavni;

— Facil­i­tat­ing a €100 mil­lion frame­work loan agree­ment with the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank and the Min­istry for com­mu­ni­ties and ter­ri­to­ries devel­op­ment of Ukraine for the restora­tion of water and waste­water infra­struc­ture;

— Pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal and ana­lyt­i­cal assis­tance, includ­ing net­work assess­ments, ener­gy effi­cien­cy improve­ments, and strate­gic plan­ning;

— Sup­port­ing the devel­op­ment of new state con­struc­tion norms aligned with EU stan­dards;

— Assist­ing in cost-reflec­tive tar­iff cal­cu­la­tion and build­ing the insti­tu­tion­al capac­i­ty of util­i­ties.

Ukraine has a unique chance dur­ing the recon­struc­tion process to build a next-gen­er­a­tion water infra­struc­ture — safe, resilient, and ful­ly aligned with EU stan­dards, states André Fabi­an, Head of Pro­gramme, FELICITY II.

FELICITY II con­tin­ues to pro­mote scal­able, EU-com­pli­ant solu­tions for Ukraine’s water recov­ery by work­ing close­ly with util­i­ties, min­istries, and inter­na­tion­al financ­ing insti­tu­tions.

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).