Mykolaiv and GIZ sign MoU to drive energy-efficient housing recovery under FELICITY II

On 4 Sep­tem­ber 2025, Myko­laiv took an impor­tant step in its recov­ery jour­ney by join­ing the pilot pro­gramme for ener­gy-effi­cient hous­ing refur­bish­ments under the FELICITY II pro­gramme. The part­ner­ship was for­malised through a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing signed between the city and GIZ dur­ing a vis­it by the FELICITY II del­e­ga­tion.

The pro­gramme focus­es on ener­gy effi­cien­cy and sus­tain­able urban devel­op­ment. This inte­grat­ed approach enables not only recon­struc­tion, but also the cre­ation of a mod­ern urban envi­ron­ment aligned with Euro­pean cli­mate ambi­tions. As one of the part­ner cities, Myko­laiv will receive tai­lored sup­port to devel­op tech­ni­cal design doc­u­men­ta­tion for 10 mul­ti-apart­ment res­i­den­tial build­ings dam­aged due to the ongo­ing war. The pro­gramme will also assist in form­ing ded­i­cat­ed imple­men­ta­tion teams with­in the munic­i­pal­i­ty, enhanc­ing insti­tu­tion­al capac­i­ties, and equip­ping local pro­fes­sion­als with the knowl­edge to apply cli­mate-respon­sive recon­struc­tion approach­es.

Dur­ing the vis­it, the GIZ team held dis­cus­sions with munic­i­pal author­i­ties and inspect­ed build­ings iden­ti­fied for future ren­o­va­tion. It is planned that up to 20 invest­ment-ready hous­ing projects will be pre­pared in the cities of Kryvyi Rih and Myko­laiv, with the poten­tial to attract financ­ing from the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank.

By align­ing with EU ener­gy effi­cien­cy stan­dards and embed­ding cli­mate-smart solu­tions into the rebuild­ing process, FELICITY II con­tributes to a for­ward-look­ing, peo­ple-cen­tred recov­ery.

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).