“Bank of Eucalyptus Ideas”: youth from all over Ukraine gathered for a strategic session

Lviv. 10 November. More than 50 young Ukrainians gathered in Lviv region to participate in the “Bank of Eucalyptus Ideas.”

Bank of Eucalyptus Ideas is an innovative strategic planning meeting together with young people from different regions, which UNFPA organizes in partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, a network of youth centers TVORY, and the Ukrainian Youth Fund.

This planning together with the youth and for the sake of the youth, is extremely important so that the work of UNFPA meets the actual needs of young Ukrainians and contributes to the comprehensive recovery of the country with the active participation of the youth by the principle of "build back better."

This event aims to develop innovative point solutions that create the maximum social effect in the context of building the prerequisites for the approaching end of the war, the establishment of peace conditions, and the full start of the post-war recovery of Ukraine. Those solutions around which there is potential for building national, regional, and local recovery and development programs.

“UNFPA could be a loudspeaker for your voices, not speaking on your behalf, but being an instrument through which we can cast this information with other members of the UN family, with central, oblast and regional authorities,” - Massimo Diana, the UNFPA Representative in Ukraine.

Thus, participants worked under the following problem identification vectors:

• the demographic crisis caused by the full-scale invasion;
• a high level of various types of losses for Ukrainians associated with the full-scale invasion;
• low number and quality of opportunities for self-realization of Ukrainians;
• loss of the ability to dream. This happens due to a high level of stress and trauma, which forces youth to focus on past experiences, which in turn negatively reflect on the present.