Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme

The Programme provides continuing support to the Government of Ukraine for elaboration and implementation of development-oriented solutions for the regions.

The CRDP, part of the United Nations Development Programme activities in Ukraine, has been launched based on the recommendations of “The Human Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident.

A strategy for Recovery” Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, the joint report by UN agencies initiated in February 2002.

Since 2003 the CRDP is constantly working to mitigate long-term social, economic and environmental consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe, to create more favorable living conditions and to promote sustainable human development in the Chernobyl-affected regions.

With a strong emphasis on economic development, the project builds a sustainable national framework supporting the return to normal life in the region and in particular focuses on the following areas: CRDP works in the 4 most Chernobyl-affected oblasts (provinces) in Ukraine, namely the Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv and Rivne Oblasts.