Tetiana Gaviuk is a programs specialist at Nonviolent Peaceforce. Before this, she worked at NP in South Sudan. She previously worked in the occupied Palestinian territories, Iraq, Syria, and Mongolia as a communications and advocacy specialist for various humanitarian agencies.
Though enabled to an extent by an influx of international donor support, much of the Ukraine conflict response has been locally mobilized and funded. Here are some lessons from recent research among local responders.