On March 15, 2023, AmCham Ukraine leadership, Infrastructure Committee Co-Chairs, and AmCham members met with Mustafa-Masi Nayyem, Head of the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine (Agency).
During the meeting, the parties touched upon the following:
- main tasks, plans, and priorities of the newly created Agency;
- distribution of funds for infrastructure restoration and development projects in 2023;
- transparency and accountability of restoration projects and the creation of a unified recovery management system;
- algorithm of cooperation with the Agency and involvement of the business in relevant projects aimed at restoration of the country.
Mustafa-Masi Nayyem also informed that in 2023 priority recovery projects will concern critical transport, energy, social infrastructure, and housing. Firstly, reconstruction will take place in 11 regions most affected by the full-scale war: Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, and Kyiv. The initiative belongs to local communities and city councils, and the Agency will assist in implementing projects and fundraising from the state budget, donor organizations, or through private investments.
According to the information provided by Mustafa-Masi Nayyem, the companies can be engaged in the implementation of the recovery projects through:
- active participation in open tenders;
- private-public partnership (relevant Draft Law #7508 “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine to Improve the Mechanism for Attracting Private Investment Using the Public-Private Partnership Mechanism to Accelerate the Restoration of War-Torn Facilities and the Construction of New Facilities Related to the Post-War Restructuring of the Ukrainian Economy” was passed in the first reading on October 6, 2022);
- export financing;
- grants from companies.
Here is the respective presentation (Eng & Ukr), delivered by Mr. Nayyem during the meeting.