The One Plan (2023–2025) is the Ukrainian Red Cross Society’s (URCS) national roadmap to address the humanitarian consequences of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine through coordinated interventions in health, rehabilitation, recovery, disaster management, protection, and education. It combines life-saving assistance, such as mobile health care, mental health and psychosocial support, shelter, and cash support, with strengthening URCS structures, volunteers, and branches to ensure inclusive, accountable, and sustainable humanitarian response nationwide.
The evaluation assessed how the Canadian Red Cross’s bilateral support to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society under the One Plan addressed urgent humanitarian needs in targeted regions. It examined the relevance and appropriateness, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact of the interventions, including the integration of protection, gender and inclusion, and community engagement and accountability. The evaluation also generated lessons for CRC for future bilateral support models.
The mixed-methods evaluation involved large-scale qualitative data collection, including over 68 semi-structured key informant interviews and 15 focus group discussions, conducted with vulnerable populations (displaced population, lonely people in need of care, etc.) and high-level stakeholders (implementing and donor partners, local governments, etc.) in high-risk and volatile settings across Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, and Lviv oblasts. The methodology also included two surveys for URCS/CRC staff and volunteers, rapid scorecard for beneficiaries, direct field observations and extensive secondary data analysis, with a strong focus on cross-cutting themes such as Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI) and Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA). To capture deeper and less measurable outcomes, the evaluation incorporated stories of change that illustrate meaningful transformations at individual, organizational, and community levels.