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I. Rationale and Contextual Realities
Since the war’s escalation in 2022, the WHO-led Health Cluster has collaborated with the Ministry of Health and regional authorities to align over 200 partners in delivering lifesaving essential health services to millions of Ukrainians while reinforcing health system resilience amid ongoing insecurity.
This coordinated approach has enabled principled engagement, prevented gaps and duplication of efforts, and supported the implementation of evidence-based, life-saving interventions in areas where needs are most severe. The protracted nature of the conflict and its strain on the health system has shifted the discussion toward a better integration of response and recovery planning.
Amid the evolving humanitarian landscape, marked by a strategic revision of Ukraine’s coordination architecture in 2025, there is a growing consensus of the need to empower MoH leadership in the coordination of humanitarian and early recovery efforts. The Health Cluster in Ukraine, in alignment with the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), continues to promote this transition by supporting a more cohesive, forward-looking approach to health coordination. Key to this vision is reinforcing oblast-level leadership, where coordination platforms play a central role in sustaining effective responses and advancing local leadership.
The Health Cluster coordination training workshop brought together 33 persons including Ministry of Health staff from 10 conflict-affected oblasts (Donetska, Kharkivska, Khersonska, Zaporizka,
Dnipropetrovska, Mykolaivska, Sumska, Chernihivska, Luhanska, Odeska), local partners, and WHO colleagues. The workshop aimed at reviewing coordination guidance from a humanitarian and development standpoint and reflect on the contextual situation in Ukraine where the transition is promoted to incorporate a locally led response.