Projekty

As Ukraine continues to face the devastating effects of war, the urgency for sustainable and community-driven reconstruction efforts has never been greater. In collaboration with key international partners, the Development Policy Foundation has spearheaded a transformative initiative  to foster green, participatory, and energy-efficient urban regeneration in Ukraine’s war-affected towns. This project, commenced in July 2024 […]

Projekt realizowany z Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI), proeuropejską instytucję około akademicką, buduje odporność na dezinformację wyposażając społeczność akademicką w atrakcyjne i funkcjonalne narzędzia edukacyjne. By dotrzeć do młodego odbiorcy, często o rozproszonej uwadze, informacja musi być prosta, angażująca i osobista. Dlatego w projekcie stworzono quiz Reality Check Indonesia (https://realitycheck.id/) z jednoznacznymi, szybko uzyskiwanymi odpowiedziami, […]

The „Fruit of Budjak” project builds on the partnership between Gmina Ryńsk in Poland and the Municipalicy of Cimișlia in Moldova to transfer Polish expertise in supporting agriculture and agro-processing. This initiative focuses on enhancing the resilience of agricultural activities in Cimișlia to market crises—such as logistical bottlenecks, trade embargoes, droughts, and floods—while promoting diversification […]

The Development Policy Foundation, in collaboration with the municipalities of Wasilków in Poland and Caplani in Moldova, is implementing the two-year project „Portile Raiului – Revitalizing Tourism Infrastructure to Strengthen Social Cohesion in Caplani.” This initiative focuses on modernizing the Portile Raiului tourist center, a unique site in Moldova renowned for its natural pools fed […]

The „Wisła-Nistru-Prut” project is a vital initiative supporting firefighter-rescuers in the Glodeni and Stefan Voda regions, located near the major rivers Prut and Dniester on Moldova’s southern and northern borders with Romania and Ukraine. Co-financed within the framework of the Polish development cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, the […]

The „Guria’s Fruits” project, launched in 2023-2024, is a transformative initiative aimed at bolstering local agriculture and entrepreneurship in Chokhatauri Municipality, part of the picturesque Guria region. Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland under the „Polish Aid” Development and Humanitarian Assistance Program, this project symbolizes the power of international […]

Modernizing Crocmaz Health Center: A Biomass Boiler for Sustainable and Affordable Energy for Rural Moldova

The „People Friendly Cities of Poland” project promotes Poland as a hospitable and self-governing nation by presenting a compelling narrative about contemporary Polish cities in the public space of Walvis Bay, Namibia. This narrative revolves around the triad of transformation, innovation, and newcomers, aiming to share Poland’s urban evolution with a diverse audience. A unique, interactive, three-dimensional typhlographic installation will be created on the city promenade of Walvis Bay, making it accessible to the visually impaired. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland under “Public Diplomacy 2024” track.

Development Policy Foundation is glad to support the Municipality of Ustka in development of scenario for VR and AI based „emergency preparedness serious game”, designed to train the people and the emergency professionals on how to react in the event of man-made or natural disaster. The baseline scenario takes stock of localized climate change challenges of mutually compounding events of a king storm tide at the Baltic Sea, a back-flow at Slupia river, combined with the flash flooding within its basin. 

Fundacja Polityki Rozwojowej z dumą facylituje i usprawnia Projekt Fortesie realizowany przez Górę Kalwarię i biuro architektoniczne „+48”. Ogólna wizja FORTESIE polega na projektowaniu, demonstrowaniu, weryfikowaniu i powielaniu innowacyjnych pakietów renowacyjnych branży budowlanej dzięki inteligentnym gwarancjom i finansowaniu opartym na wydajności, mającym na celu efektywne, zrównoważone i sprzyjające inkluzywnemu wykorzystaniu energii (ESIE) w celu przyspieszenia fali renowacyjnej w Europie. Pakiet renowacyjny, który ma zostać wprowadzony w Polsce, a dokładniej w Górze Kalwarii, dotyczy modernizacji basenu, aby był bardziej energooszczędny. Projekt ten otrzymał dofinansowanie z unijnego programu badań i innowacji Horizon Europe.

This project seeks to transfer and pilot a smart, adjustable, and hybrid Energy Integrator & Storage Hub: DROMADER 3G® produced by a Polish Company Markoterm. Solar collectors systems will be integrated with the existing 24 kw gas stove. The system that will be implemented provides a straightforward, reasonably priced, and energy-efficient way to encourage the Republic of Moldova to utilize green energy technologies. Solar energy collectors, a small energy buffer, an integrator and a heat pump will be installed in Primaria Antonesti (Antonesti Municipality) in the Republic of Moldova. This project is supported by the Development Policy Foundation (know-how/expertise/founders of the project idea), the United Nations Development Programme – UNDP, Makroterm, UNDP in Europe and Central Asia, Polish Challenge Fund https://polishchallengefund.org/, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy, and Eco Fabrica SRL.

This project aims to facilitate the transfer, promotion and market expansion of genuinely Polish renewable energy sources, accessible, easily adjusted products. This is to be achieved by the pilot implementation of SEEDiA's Smart public furniture – a Bus Shelter in Stefan Voda, a city in Moldova. This pilot takes place on the main square of Stefan Voda – a central location of the city allowing maximized outreach. The project implementation course features also a workshop and a webinar: educating on local spatial planning & sustainable development. The project is financed by the UNDP within the Polish Challenge Fund Programme and it contributes to the goals of the UNDP Country Office in the Republic of Moldova.

The goal of the project is to boost economic growth and stimulate sustainable job creation in Causeni and throughout SE Moldova. To this end, a smart, energy-effective, multi-functional cool storage will be provided to the communities of Causeni of Moldova. The facility will allow local farmers and agro-entrepreneurs to cool, store and pack their produce, accessing the markets and customers, adding to their income and its sustainability. The project is financed by the European Union – EuropeAid Programme, under Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) facility. Development Policy Foundation designed and developed the project idea and stands as a chief know-how provider.

The project supports rural income diversification, promoting local produce, their value chains and boosting the tourist potential of Purcari zone of South Eastern Moldova. A gourmand pavilion was established and opened in Antonesti, on a side of R30, the Chisinau-Odessa highway. The multi-functional premise serves as the local gourmand & wellness produce shop, the local bistro & cafe, the open community space, hosting wine-tasting and food-lovers get-together, further the tourist information, providing visitors with a bike rental and tourist with guidance on what to see and try.

The project aims to shorten supply and value chains and boost productivity and income of small orchard holders through South-East of Moldova, providing a buffer cushion for seasonal demand and mirroring supply fluctuations, further supporting sustainable landscape management and biodiversity conservation: protecting the traditional orchard and the associated ecosystem services throughout the Lower Dniester of Moldova.The project provides the rural communities of South East Moldova with a mobile cold fresh juice pressing line, the very first of a kind in the country.

The project promotes smart, participatory integrated urban development through peer partnership among EU and Namibian urban LAs, advancing sustainable urban management praxis in line with AGENDA 2030 & COVID-19 challenges to urban development. The action will set an integrated model of inclusive, sustainable, circular, resilient management of fish & green markets and adjacent multi-functional public spaces in Walvis Bay. Project is funded by the EU within the Europe-aid grant scheme.

Polish Challenge Fund has the objective to facilitate the transfer of the Polish know-how, technology, and innovative solutions in the area of green technologies and ICT to partner countries of Polish Aid such as Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. The transfer is to help to address complex development challenges in those countries while contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Implemented by Makroterm and Kharkiv Energy Cluster, the project will provide energy-efficient heating & cooling and hot water for public and private facilities in Ukraine.

City 4 People: the plywood plaques expo at Cukurova Teknokent in Adana, TR and a series of podcasts online, explore the philosophical legacy of Stanisław Lem, his futuristic vision of a hyper-intelligent city, and Polish smart urban innovations. The project, implemented by Development Policy Foundation, was co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Public Diplomacy 2021 facility. It is also a part of Poland’s campaign commemorating the 100th anniversary of Stanisław Lem’s birthday.

Supported by the Polish Challenge Fund, this project will be implemented in Moldova from October 2021 to September 2022. The project will bring substantial financial savings to local wastewater treatment plants’ owners and operators stemming from the reduction of the amount of sewage sludge, and a mirroring cut in operational expenses of the WWTPs, as well as environmental benefits resulting from the improvement of the quality of effluent and reduced WWTP’s negative impact on the environment, including lower power consumption and reduced carbon footprint. 

The project aiming to strengthen urban governance, ensure social inclusiveness of cities improvement of resilience and greening of cities and promote prosperity and innovation in cities: all through pilot of practices-oriented, competitive, and cross-sectoral green urban management capacity-building program, followed by full cycle of inclusive, urban participatory co-design process, delivery of smart consultative formulas and tool-kits, and further provision of technical assistance in donor’s oriented fundraising, tendering and project management and incubating the new urban actions, that integrate the transferred EU know-how and pilot lessons learnt.

The project “Farm to Fork Academy: V4 for Sustainable Agriculture in Albania” aims to support biodiversity, protect, and promote circular economy models among Albanian small farmers by creating a group of local leaders, tutored during capacity building training programme and followed by execution of pilots based on best idea proposals developed with V4 experts support. Project is supported by International Visegrad Fund and CEI.

The project feeds a lasting and sustainable LA&NGOs network of Baltic/EU and EaP countries, to share experiences, best practices and policy tool-kits for tangible, locally-focused environmental acquis implementation. Smart Water & Wetlands project is supported by Swedish Institute/ Svenska Institutet.

Project promotes Polish experiences and good practices on EU membership driven modernization of agriculture sector and transformation of rural areas, offering praxis insights into effective use of EU funds by rural micro-entrepreneurs, NGOs/CSOs and Polish farmers, to inspire rural stakeholders from the Western Balkans to draw on the presented solutions in their countries. Project is co-financed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland.

Farmers4Climate: ON-FARM CLIMATE RESILIENCE ACADEMY for Armenia aims to increase young Armenian farmers’ climate change resilience transferring and piloting Visegard 4 micro-scale and cost-effective know-how on-farms climate change adaptation through a capacity building training programme, run in a project incubator formula, followed by piloting the best praxis technology & adjustment solutions at right the farms. Project is supported by International Visegrad Fund.

V4 for smart and competitive rural SMEs in Georgia is a project supported by International Visegrad Fund. The action excels smart, social impact oriented, food & wine & rural tourism value chains in Kakheti, Georgia. The project draws on V4 expertise, boosting competitiveness, profits and export potential of Georgian rural start-ups and MSMEs.

CIRCULAR FARM IMPACT LAB V4 for AZ helps young talented Azeri framers, agro-entrepreneurs and agri-start-uppers to turn agriculture and on-farm waste into a new product. The project is being supported by International Visegard Fund.

„Tastes of Belarus: Innovatory Culinary Tourism a Stimulus for Rural Entrepreneurship” is a project with the goal to support rural micro-entrepreneurship in northwestern Belarus – by creating and promoting a „foodie-soft adventure” network product – rural sightseeing tourism: culinary-cycling.

The La Nihalcea project aims at improving ecological situation of the pond, together with raising its eco-touristic attractiveness. The goal will be accomplished through restoration of La Nihalcea and construction of recreational facilities in the area.

Youth Urban Action Lab aims at restoring disadvantaged youth’s trust in policy making through providing an innovative consultation formula, building capacity of local CSOs, disfranchised leaders and local authorities to better represent the needs of disadvantaged youth groups, and offering tangible results by implementing results of public consultations through participatory public space co-making under Urban Action Lab.

Ready to kick-off project financed by the Australian Government’s Direct Aid Program aims at developing, introducing and disseminating in Jordan innovative e-tool and public consultation formulas in order to enable Tafilah municipality local authorities, CSOs and representatives of disadvantaged youth to engage in micro-scale participatory decision-making schemes, focusing on safety, accessibility and inclusiveness of public space.

Ready to kick-off project financed by the Civil Society Forum aims to to identify challenges and opportunities in local water governance and management, conflicts and overlaps of competencies between institutions responsible for water management and local authorities, feasible formulas of cooperation among waters users, and to strengthen competencies, practical skills and engagement of local stakeholders involved in water management.

Project launched in August 2017 and financed by the International Visegrad Fund aims at supporting transformation of agricultural and rural development oriented secondary schools, colleges and vocational training institutions in three Eastern Partnership AA-EU signatories – Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, toward cross-cutting, proactive, modular and project approach learning formula, further stimulating co-operation with agro-business, drawing on respective Visegrad countries and the EU lessons learned.

Project responds to the needs of civil society, NGOs, cultural and social institutions focusing on marginalized groups (people with disabilities, seniors, mothers and kids) in Kairouan, Tunisia, to ensure equal access to public space, foster social inclusion and boost public participation of the vulnerable social groups by creating sustainable links between artistic and social focused actors on local level, engaging young architects in practical artistic mission with social objectives.

‘Moldavian Culinary Routes: Model consolidation and multiplication. Advocacy, promotion and investments for complete, integrated rural tourism product. Certification of food processing for micro-entrepreneurs’ is a project supported by Polish Aid Program (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland) and implemented in 2017 in Câlârași and Purcari regions in Moldova.

Seeking change of traditional paradigms of rural management in Moldova, exploring and exploiting the true potential of the rural market for the benefit of rural communities, Bike & Wine project’s primary goal was to re-imagine rural business opportunities: production and promotion of regional products, construction of thematic (including culinary) cycling and walking touristic routes, as well as inclusion of the Călărași and Purcari regions residents in the active development of a local tourist offer.

Project implemented with the aim of increasing economic stability of Temi, an assisted living community offering shelter to vulnerable social groups – people with disabilities, single mothers, neglected and disabled children by facilitating development of suitable for the institution social entrepreneurship model.

The project financed by the International Visegrad Fund aimed to increase and diversify income of small-holders, micro-farmers and micro-producers in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine through comprehensive technical, organizational and promotional assistance and support to processing, promotion and sales of local products, including obtaining certifications of community kitchens in Georgia and Moldova under the short food supply chain formula, in line with the provisions of AAs, EU acquis and V4 best practices in the field.

In 2016 Kairouan Community in cooperation with the Development Policy Foundation launched new project supported by the National Endowment for Democracy,  with the aim of encouraging disadvantaged social groups to collaborate with civil society organizations and participate in local decision-making processes to advocate for improved access to public spaces. Project engages these groups in dialogue in order to tackle social prejudices and taboos.

Main objective of the project supported by EuropeAid and USAID, being currently implemented in Komarovo region is to boost development of a genuine private sector in the rural areas of Belarus by creating and running the pilot Rural Business Incubator. Project aims to improve access to financing for newly created rural micro-enterprises, expand private employment and independent income generation in rural areas of Belarus as well as to generally bolster the entrepreneurial spirit.

Further organizational and legal support for producers registering regional products as Geographic Indicators and extension of tourism and regional processing capacity in Câlârași region were the main objectives of the project supported by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Polish Development Aid 2016 ‘Moldovian Culinary Routes: micro­investments, promotion, registration’, which was implemented by the Development Policy Foundation as a continuation of the action launched in 2015.

Young Polish architects, Georgian architecture students and representatives of marginalized groups jointly designed and built a pyramid – an object serving as an example of inclusive architecture. The center for excluded people in Gremi, Kakheti, Georgia – TEMI Community hosted architecture workshops ‘SO EAS+Y’, as a part of the project realized by Development Policy Foundation.

The main objective of the project implemented in Georgia by the Development Policy Foundation in cooperation with the Information Technology Center E-Misja was to support the development of civil society in rural areas of Kakheti region by strengthening the capacity of local NGOs, raising their competence in project design and management as well as reaching out to and engaging young people in work for communities they represent. The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

Project implemented by Tullstorpsån Ekonomisk Förening and supported by the Svenska institutet sought stimulating eco-social entrepreneurship in rural areas of Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Estonia as well as creating and nourishing lasting and sustainable cooperation network of NGOs in the targeted Baltic Sea and EaP region.

The UNDEF-supported project launched in March 2015 aimed to address the problems of insufficient competence and fundraising skills among Chin State’s Civil Society Organizations, lack of their institutional capacity and network as well as lack of experiences and opportunities for project management and implementation.

The joint Estonian-Polish-Belarusian project aimed to pool and share know-how and the respective best practices in the following areas of biodiversity protection and sustainable development entailing peculiarities of rural tourism development on environmentally sensitive and protected areas, emphasizing on cross birder cooperation (CBC) environmental spots and Natura 2000 Network.

A modern, ecological playground was created in the multi-ethnic and culturally diverse suburbs of Tbilisi as a direct result of an extensive, model consultation process. The concept of the project was elaborated and implemented by Development Policy Foundation to not only test but also to demonstrate the value & practical meaning of most innovative methods of public consultations in the specific situation of the multicultural neighborhoods.

Project financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Poland, within the framework of the Polish Aid programme, was launched in March 2015. Project aimed to encourage local producers from Câlârași District to register local and regional products, and by these means to preserve cultural heritage of Moldova, promote region and attract tourism.

Modern, effective, energy saving and high efficiency solutions – in 2016 Development Policy Foundation sought to promote the most creative among Polish business solutions for public space in Ukraine. The multilateral initiative supported by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs was implemented in Nova Kakhovka in cooperation with Ukrainian partners.

The synergetic projects – 'Design the change' and 'Citizen-monitoring in Hola Prystan: a boost for a tangible social engagement, V4 for Ukraine' were aimed at setting up and testing a workable instrument for monitoring of public opinion, carrying out public consultations with the aim to empower the local community of Hola Prystan, Kherson oblast, Ukraine, and its various segments, to influence decision-making processes and pursue local development agenda in public space management and improvement.

A Belarusian NGO active in the countryside: the Centre of Development of Rural Entrepreneurship ‘Komarovo’ has signed an agreement with the Psycho-Neurological Centre called the Boarding House Dom-Internat at Svir. This model solution allows taking effective actions for disabled people and the mentally ill. The therapeutic equipment also arrived to Svir, which will make it easier to carry out a therapy and will ensure that this project is long lasting.

The BRD-NET project’s aim was to strengthen the capacity of Ukrainian local NGOs and experts, boost their ability to attract EU expertise and funding for regional development, as well as to improve synergies between the third sector’s and local governments’ initiatives in the Black Sea Eastern Partnership countries by tapping into the experience of the Visegrad countries.

The project implemented in 2016 in cooperation with Cieszanów Municipality aimed to enable local communities to test public innovative project based methods of civil engagement in Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia thus getting excluded national and ethnic minorities involved in actions for the sake of integration of national and ethnic minorities and promoting Local Authorities and Civic Societies Organizations cooperation.

During their stay in the Iskashim region in Pamir, the experts of the Development Policy Foundation together with the local partner of the project – NGO Gulu Gyoh discussed alternative solutions of combating the extreme poverty in the region and related high migration rates: development of regional production and creating facilities for local tourism.

Project implemented in 2015 with the goal of providing comprehensive institutional support – training and equipment to the Tajik NGO 'Gulu Gyoh’, as well as to involve volunteers in its activities.

Project’s goal was to present NGOs in Belarus with architectural workshops as an interesting, effective and socially engaging method of work, one inviting everyone concerned with the infrastructure issues both in the cities and rural areas to discussion about shared public space.

In frame of the project implemented in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia by Press Club Foundation and financed by polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of ‘Support for Democracy 2013’ programme a website based on Fix-my-street formula was created as an interactive map that allows the users to mark detected in your neighbourhood problems of public space that needed to be fixed – holes in the road, demolished buildings, garbage, etc.

Representatives of the Association of Rural Municipalities of Podlaskie Province and supporting them NGOs talked about the needs and proper assistance to the Eastern Partnership countries (Belarus, Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine) in the face of their changing political and economic situation.

The strategic goal of the project was to support the development of entrepreneurship in the Belarusian countryside, as well as to build a civil society in Belarus by involving local entrepreneurs in socially valuable initiatives and creating conditions conducive to establish an association of local business leaders.

Transferring knowledge of modern rehabilitation methods for the benefit of mentally disabled residents of social care institution in Svir followed by the development of the most suitable for the institution therapy models were the main goals of the project implemented in 2012.

Objective of the project implemented in 2010 by the Zawady Municipality in cooperation with the Development Policy Foundation was to improve communication between entrepreneurs and the local authorities in the area of the city of Vysokoye in Belarus and to demonstrate on the basis of the best Polish practices how good governance translates into investment policy and promotion of the region.