Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The towns north-west of Kyiv were damaged and then, unusually, repopulated quickly. Rebuilding around residents is a different problem from rebuilding an empty place.
Reconstruction markets have a characteristic shape that is visible in advance. Understanding how capacity constraints translate into pricing, and when being early is an advantage rather…
The failure mode of large reconstruction efforts is not lack of money. It is forty donors funding the same visible project while nobody funds the sewer.
Ukraine built a housing compensation system that a citizen operates from a phone. The design decisions behind it are worth studying anywhere.
Housing is the biggest item in any damage assessment and the hardest to deliver, because unlike a bridge every unit belongs to somebody with their own…
Three sets of priorities meet in one room: national plans, community proposals and donor preferences. How that meeting is structured determines what gets built.
Reconstruction money attracts scrutiny, and it should. DREAM is the answer Ukraine built: a single public register where every project is visible from concept through tender…
Every reconstruction discussion begins with a total. What determines whether that number means anything is the methodology behind it, which almost nobody reads.
The recovery conference in Lugano set out principles for how Ukraine's reconstruction should be conducted. They are worth reading because they answer the wrong-donor problem in…
Ukraine has contractors capable of delivering large projects to deadline — Euro 2012 proved it. What it does not have is enough of them, and the…
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