PFRU and Nova Post have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation
The ‘Partnership for a Strong Ukraine’ (PFRU) programme, funded by the governments of the United Kingdom, Estonia, Canada, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden, and Nova Post have joined forces to support small and medium-sized businesses — Nova Post franchisees — who keep branches running in frontline and border communities.
This memorandum aims to support local entrepreneurs in ensuring more stable operations amid security risks, power cuts and other challenges posed by the war, as well as to provide community residents and businesses with access to essential postal and logistics services.
As part of this cooperation, Ukraine’s international partners, through the PFRU, will support 21 entrepreneurs — partners of Nova Post — who operate 31 branches in frontline communities in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. The entrepreneurs will be provided with critical equipment: generators and high-capacity charging stations, computer equipment, internet connectivity equipment, heating and air-conditioning systems, fire extinguishers, electric forklifts, self-service terminals and mobile scanners. Nova Post, for its part, will ensure the rapid delivery of the equipment at its own expense.
During wartime, the resilience of communities depends on very practical matters: whether local businesses are operating, whether there are jobs, and whether access to services and links to the country’s economic life are maintained. It is precisely these foundations of resilience that the PFRU supports as a stabilisation programme. In this project, we are helping small and medium-sized businesses — entrepreneurs who take on all the risks of running a business in difficult security conditions. By supporting them, we help to maintain local employment, the flow of goods and services, and economic activity in communities living under the daily pressure of war,” said Iryna Tushnytska, Director of the “Governance and Service Recovery” programme at PFRU.
“Supporting partners as part of our collaboration with PFRU is an important step towards ensuring the stable operation of branches in frontline communities and uninterrupted access to logistics services for people and businesses,” comments Yevhen Tafiychuk, CEO of Nova Post.
The signing of the Memorandum consolidates the parties’ joint efforts to support business resilience in frontline communities.