Assistance for displaced persons from Ukraine significantly decreased in 2025, with many major donors reducing their funding and many governments discontinuing state support schemes. The One Proposal project aimed to provide support with education and healthcare, emergency assistance and integration, engaging both refugees and locals.
Who benefits
People displaced from Ukraine, including students/TCNs resident in Ukraine and vulnerable people; local stakeholders involved in co-operation and decision-making; local communities.
How it works
In 2025, the One Proposal project’s activities were carried out by teams of staff and volunteers who collaborated with local stakeholders on 3 pillars:
- Welcome: Provision of short-term shelter, emergency aid, and basic needs assistance to ensure dignified reception.
- Protect: Delivery of long-term shelter, mental health and psychosocial support, health services, legal assistance, cash, voucher and in-kind assistance to safeguard rights and reduce vulnerabilities.
- Integrate: Support for education and livelihood initiatives aimed at strengthening skills, autonomy, and future prospects, advocacy and integration activities fostering social cohesion, access to services, and inclusion on labour markets.
Partners also worked to strengthen their institutional capacity through staff recruitment, training, institutional development and operational support to ensure effective service delivery. Special attention was given to vulnerable persons: elderly people, unaccompanied minors, people with disabilities and single-parent families who benefited from psychosocial support.
The language courses, remedial education for children, IT and various creative workshops were the most sought-after services. Other significant strands of intervention were the Mental Health & Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and the Integration. MHPSS activities included individual and group counseling, art therapy, dance classes, yoga, and support groups while integration consisted of community-building events, holiday celebrations, focus groups, and recreational outings to help refugees adjust to their new environment.
- Project duration
- 24 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
- Project locations
- Romania
- Project website
- Jesuit Refugee Service Europe
- Topic
- Ukraine response
Results
7 053 people displaced from Ukraine were assisted in 2025, including 2 532 children, 6 617 persons were assisted in 2024, including 3 989 children, 14 518 people were assisted in 2023 and 9 181 people were assisted in 2022.
Evaluation
The project was annually evaluated by JRS Europe. The main factors of success identified for Romania were:
- JRS’s prior operational activities across the country;
- previous experience in providing assistance to asylum seekers and migrants and in border monitoring;
- flexibility regarding staff recruitment and decision making;
- rapid activation of communication channels preferred by the target group (Telegram, Facebook, Viber etc.) and participation in the local coordination groups in the cities that host reception centres (Bucharest, Galati, Somcuta Mare, Timisoara, Radauti, Giurgiu).
Funding and resources
The project was funded by Jesuit Refugee Service Europe (JRSE) and the Xavier Network.