From financing to implementation: FELICITY II launches IMPACT training for Ukraine’s water utilities

On 20 August 2026, the FELICITY II pro­gramme, in coop­er­a­tion with the Nation­al Ukrain­ian Water Acad­e­my (NUWA), launched the IMPACT (Inte­grat­ed Munic­i­pal Projects: Acti­va­tion, Capac­i­ty & Trans­for­ma­tion) train­ing course for rep­re­sen­ta­tives of water util­i­ties and munic­i­pal­i­ties par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank’s (EIB) Ukraine Water Recov­ery (UWR) loan pro­gramme. 

Access to financ­ing is only one part of mod­ernising munic­i­pal infra­struc­ture. Util­i­ties also need the insti­tu­tion­al and tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties to devel­op viable invest­ment con­cepts, pre­pare projects in line with the require­ments of inter­na­tion­al finan­cial insti­tu­tions, nav­i­gate pro­cure­ment and con­tract­ing pro­ce­dures, and man­age imple­men­ta­tion once financ­ing has been secured. 

The IMPACT course address­es these needs by cov­er­ing the entire life­cy­cle of a munic­i­pal invest­ment project – from devel­op­ing the ini­tial project idea and prepar­ing bank­able projects to financ­ing, pro­cure­ment, imple­men­ta­tion and project man­age­ment. Com­bin­ing prac­ti­cal cas­es, inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence and the require­ments of devel­op­ment part­ners and finan­cial insti­tu­tions, the course is designed to strength­en the capac­i­ties that util­i­ties need to turn infra­struc­ture pri­or­i­ties into imple­mentable invest­ment projects. 

Over ten the­mat­ic mod­ules, par­tic­i­pants will work on project prepa­ra­tion and tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion, the nation­al DREAM dig­i­tal ecosys­tem, coop­er­a­tion with the Min­istry of Finance of Ukraine and inter­na­tion­al finan­cial insti­tu­tions, pro­cure­ment and con­tract man­age­ment, ener­gy man­age­ment and oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy, project imple­men­ta­tion, insti­tu­tion­al capac­i­ty build­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and change man­age­ment. 

“Suc­cess­ful invest­ment projects are the result of thor­ough prepa­ra­tion, pro­fes­sion­al exper­tise and coor­di­nat­ed team­work. Our task is to assist munic­i­pal­i­ties in con­fi­dent­ly nav­i­gat­ing the project prepa­ra­tion process, both with­in the UWR pro­gramme and beyond, so that every euro mobilised con­tributes to long-term devel­op­ment and tan­gi­ble improve­ments for peo­ple,” said Oksana Oliynyk, Head of the Ukraine Com­po­nent of the FELICITY II pro­gramme. 

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 Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty, under the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI).