Dutch aid for Ukraine

The Netherlands supports Ukraine in a variety of ways: with money for humanitarian aid, reconstruction, aid to victims of war, and with medicine and relief goods. The Netherlands also supports the investigation of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. This page presents an outline of the most important contributions that have been pledged.

Military support: timeline of what the Dutch Ministry of Defence is doing to support Ukraine (in Dutch)

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Dutch aid for Ukraine in 2023

Overview of Dutch aid for Ukraine in 2023
Humanitarian aid
  • €20 million for humanitarian assistance via the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA);
  • €14 million for humanitarian demining.
Support via the EU A guarantee of around €1.062 billion to the EU budget for macro-financial assistance (support for major economic problems) for the Ukrainian government, and around €165 million to cover interest due to be paid on loans in the period from 2024 to 2027.
Healthcare
  • €25 million for healthcare and sexual and reproductive health and rights;
  • €10 million for mental health and psychosocial support. 
Support via international financial institutions
  • €60 million for gas purchases by Naftogaz and for the Crisis Response Special Fund of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD);
  • €60 million via the World Bank’s Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform Trust Fund (URTF);
  • €52 million for repairs to physical and digital infrastructure and housing via the European Investment Bank’s EU4U Fund;
  • €22 million via the Council of Europe Development Bank;
  • €7 million for technical assistance via the International Monetary Fund.
Energy
  • €7 million in deliveries of parts for the Ukrainian energy network.
Business sector
  • €25 million in subsidies to enable Dutch businesses and civil society organisations to work with Ukrainian partner organisations to contribute to reconstruction and recovery;
  • €60 million in support for Dutch companies that aim to contribute to reconstruction in Ukraine. This will be applied to export credit insurance to cover the risks of doing business in Ukraine.
Early recovery and reconstruction aid for Ukraine 
  • €6 million for repairs to drinking water facilities via public water companies in the Netherlands;
  • €5 million for the Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine;
  • €10 million for relief supplies and equipment, including survival craft, in response to the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam;
  • €8 million for civil society security organisations;
  • €1.4 million for the Ukrainian Women’s Fund for participation in women’s rights organisations.
Culture
  • €5 million for the protection of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
Support for food price stability and the grain deal
  • €40 million for seeds and other agricultural materials via the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Human rights and combating impunity
  • €14 million for combating impunity in relation to international crimes;
  • €875,000 for the human rights fund of the Dutch embassy in Kyiv for distribution to local NGO projects aimed at combating impunity
Cybersecurity
  • €1.6 million for businesses helping Ukrainian government organisations protect themselves from cyberattacks, for example by providing software licences and training IT staff.
Military support
  • €1.6 billion for direct deliveries from the Netherlands’ own stocks and for military goods purchased for Ukraine, a contribution to the International Fund for Ukraine and support via the NATO Trust Fund. More information about military support (in Dutch); 
  • The Netherlands also contributes to military support and military training via the European Peace Facility.

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Dutch aid for Ukraine in 2022

Overview of Dutch aid for Ukraine in 2022
Humanitarian aid Around € 60 million, including a contribution to the UN’s Ukraine Humanitarian Fund, €10 million for demining and € 2 million for combating sexual and gender-related violence.
Support via the EU A guarantee of around € 200 million to the EU budget for the Macro-financial Assistance+ (MFA+) package for the Ukrainian government.
Support via international financial institutions
  • Loan of € 200 million via the International Monetary Fund.
  • Guarantee of € 100 million via the World Bank.
  • € 27.5 million via the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Winterisation aid
  • € 90 million via the World Bank’s Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform Trust Fund (URTF).
  • € 72 million via the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (for the Ukrainian energy distributor Ukrenergo).
  • €18 million for the delivery of parts for the electricity grid, via the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
Business sector
  • € 65 million for the Dutch and Ukrainian business sectors, including € 50 million for infrastructure repairs (via DRIVE and the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF)) and € 15 million to support small and medium-sized enterprises in Ukraine via the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO.
Reconstruction aid for Ukraine
  • € 1 million via the Association of Netherlands Municipalities for reconstruction plans for Kherson, Odesa, Mykolaiv.
  • € 250,000 for small-scale projects via the Dutch embassy in Ukraine.
Refugees

€ 150 million from official development assistance budget for the reception of refugees in the Netherlands.

Culture € 500,000 for repairs to damaged cultural heritage.
Support for food price stability and the grain deal
  • Around € 2 million to support the grain deal.
  • €4 million to the World Food Programme for the Grain from Ukraine initiative.
Human rights and combating impunity
  • € 2 million via the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
  • € 3.6 million via the Human Rights Fund.
  • € 2 million via the MATRA programme aimed at reforms to strengthen the rule of law.
  • € 1.8 million for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine.
Military support € 1 billion: material support, trilateral support, commercial deliveries, contribution to the International Fund for Ukraine, support for the NATO Trust Funds.

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