30/06/2026
🇬🇧🇺🇦The United Kingdom is one of Ukraine's key partners and provides significant financial support for social recovery through the World Bank, as well as support for reforms that bring the country closer to European Union standards. This was underscored by a recent visit to Kyiv by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, Rachel Reeves.
🤝Nithin Umapathi, World Bank Lead Economist leading the Labor and Social Protection Portfolio in Ukraine, accompanied the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during her visit to a rehabilitation center for children with disabilities and spoke about the importance of British support for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
✅"The UK's support for the SPIRIT project is a model of strategic development finance. A modest technical assistance grant acted as a force multiplier — unlocking $500 million in concessional World Bank financing and catalyzing significant parallel contributions from Japan and Germany. But the real return is human: resources flowing directly into Ukraine's social protection system, reaching displaced persons, people with disabilities, children, and vulnerable households. The reforms it supports are building the care economy, which creates jobs; integrated case management moves people from passive dependency toward economic participation. And beneath all of this is a geopolitical truth: social cohesion is the foundation of Ukraine's democratic resilience, and the UK is helping to build it. The UK is a founding partner in the system Ukraine will stand on long after the war ends," said Nithin Umapathi.
‼The project, worth a total of $880 million, also provides $360 million in co-financing from Japan, and contributions from Germany and the United Kingdom in the form of $25 million in grant funds from the Trust Fund for Support, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform of Ukraine ( ).
British Embassy Kyiv
Посольство Японії в Україні / 在ウクライナ日本国大使館 / Embassy of Japan in Ukraine
Посольство Німеччини в Києві / Deutsche Botschaft Kyjiw
Міністерство соціальної політики, сім'ї та єдності України