UK development finance institution British International Investment (BII), which has so far focused on trade finance in its new mandate to help Ukraine, will shift to rebuilding private business as soon as the war ends, its managing director said.
"During the war, we are helping businesses simply to survive," Colin Buckley, managing director and general counsel of BII, told Ukraine Rebuild Newswire (URN). "After the war, BII plans to invest in business rebuilding and expansion."
Tetra Tech, the global consulting and engineering firm, has laid off dozens of workers in Ukraine and faces tens of millions of dollars in costs locally due to the USAID cuts, including a payment freeze on work completed, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company is one of
Some 60 privately owned Finnish companies have applied so far to the government's Finnpartnership program that helps them get ready to invest in Ukraine, said Antti Vänskä, Finland's special envoy to the reconstruction of Ukraine. And that number is set to grow. "The interest of
Ukraine's Ministry of Economy and the Ukrainian-Korean Business Council (UKBC) have signed a memorandum of cooperation to deepen institutional collaboration and boosting private sector engagement between the two countries.
Ukraine's approach to rebuilding war-damaged territories is increasingly centered on housing, social protection, healthcare, and other human needs, diverging from traditional post-conflict recovery models, according to a study by a group of Ukrainian researchers published in the European Journal of Sustainable Development.
