From Response to Recovery: A Dialogue of Southern Communities and Organizations

Publication date: June 26, 2026

July 8, Mykolaiv
10:00 – 13:30
Format: Expert dialogue with workshop elements.
In-person event with live streaming of the panel discussion.
Registration: https://forms.gle/v5Yr3CKA6bTxW4RZ8 by 12:00 on July 7, 2026. Seats are limited.

The fifth year of full-scale war is changing the logic of humanitarian work. Funding is shrinking, needs are shifting — and within the same oblast, the gap in access to assistance between a large city and a small frontline village can be immense. Some organizations and communities are still operating in the logic of 2022: reactively, without strategy, without shared pathways.

The Legal Development Network invites you to the expert dialogue “Strategic Planning and Adaptability: How to Move from Reactive to Recovery-Oriented Assistance”. The event will be held in partnership with the Czech humanitarian organization People in Need and with the support of the UK Government.

What we will discuss

How to build recovery strategies when one community is in crisis mode while a neighboring one is already thinking about development. How Link platform data helps identify “invisible” needs and enables realistic planning. Where the boundaries lie between the mandates of authorities, large international organizations, and small local NGOs — and how to connect rather than pit them against each other. How to share not only success stories but also failures — in order to learn systematically.

Who will find this relevant

Representatives of international, national, and local organizations, communities, regional development agencies, and others.

PROGRAMME

09:30 – 10:00 Registration and welcome coffee

10:00 – 10:10 Opening remarks
Link in 2026 — challenges and opportunities for partner organizations and communities
Oleksii Tertyshny, Programme Director, Project Lead

10:10 – 11:30 Representatives of national and international organizations, donors, local civil society organizations, and communities (full list of speakers to be announced)

Trends and case studies:

• Strategic planning challenges in a region with fundamentally different community contexts
• Funding priorities for communities and partners in 2026
• How data supports the building of response strategies — a case study using Link platform analytics
• Challenges in developing effective community strategies
• The advocacy dimension — what matters most when setting today’s agenda

11:30 – 12:00 Dialogue over coffee

12:00 – 13:10 Group work: finding shared solutions — pathways for communities, the civil society sector, and the humanitarian sector to move from reactive response to community recovery, with adaptability to a dynamic context
Facilitated by Viktor Alkhimov, Programme Manager, LDN

13:10 – 13:30 Wrap-up and next steps. Closing coffee

Moderator: Viktor Alkhimov, Programme Manager, Legal Development Network (LDN)

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