On June 17-18, 2025, the team of the Lviv Agrarian Chamber – a cooperating partner of the international humanitarian program – conducted another monitoring mission in the western region of Ukraine.
Because now, within the framework of the new agreement, the Chamber provides assistance in eight areas. The purpose of the visit was to check the implementation of project activities, coordination with local communities and evaluation of the effectiveness of providing assistance to internally displaced persons living in social institutions within the framework of the UN WFP Institutional Nutrition Program.
This time the monitoring covered a number of institutions in Lviv, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions. The team paid special attention to institutions that take care of vulnerable categories of the population – children’s psychoneurological homes, geriatric boarding houses and medical rehabilitation centers where IDPs are staying. In particular, the representatives of the mission visited Petrikivskyi Regional Geriatric Boarding House, Petrikivskyi Regional Communal Children’s Boarding House, Terebovlyansky Psychoneurological Boarding House, Zalishchytskyi Children’s Center for Medical Rehabilitation, CU “Kitsman Territorial Center of Social Services”, “Magalsky Children’s Boarding House”, and CU “Center for Provision of Social Services” of the Kadubowiec territorial community.
During the visits of the Petrykivskyi regional geriatric boarding house, the representatives of the monitoring group talked with its residents who had arrived from the temporarily occupied regions. Nataliya Mykhailivna Shevtsova from the village of Serebryanka in Donetsk region and Chulanova Nina Stepanivna from the city of Soledar spoke about the living conditions and sincerely thanked the Lviv Agrarian Chamber and the UN World Food Program for their care, concern and humanity, for supporting people who lost all means of livelihood due to the war.
In each location, representatives of the Chamber held conversations with heads of institutions, accountants, kitchen workers, storekeepers. The logistics processes, the quality of the received products and the level of compliance with the procedures in accordance with the standards of the partner program were evaluated. The information received will be used to improve logistics, delivery efficiency and adapt the program to the real needs of local communities. “We don’t just monitor – we listen, analyze and change our approach in real time. That’s why the effectiveness of our cooperation with the UN and other international institutions is increasing every year,” noted Ihor Vuytsyk, the head of the Lviv Regional Council, Petro Burynyuk, who heads the Children’s Center of the Ternopil rehabilitation 1,400 people, including 600 IDPs, are rehabilitated in this facility every year. 
The monitoring mission is also an opportunity to strengthen horizontal ties between communities and project partners. Anatoly Todoriko, director of the Magal orphanage – a boarding school in Chernivtsi region, emphasized that the food aid received as part of the Institutional Nutrition Program is not only a good support for the wards of the boarding school, where 31 children from Luhansk Region are also staying, but also for the Magal territorial community. Thanks to this project, the community can direct the money it saved on the purchase of food to other urgent needs, to purchase the necessary equipment or other means needed for communal institutions. “We sincerely thank the UN World Food Program, the Lviv Agrarian Chamber for the strong support of our institution and hope that such a necessary and timely program will continue to work, because it is a practical manifestation of care for the most vulnerable categories of society. In times of war, this is an invaluable help!” Anatoly Todoriko noted.
Source. Lviv Agrarian Chamber