A reporter’s guide

Tracking
the money

Datasets for reporting on Ukraine’s recovery

Speaker

Ada
Homolova

Tracking reconstruction money

What this is

A reference for journalists covering the financing and post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.

Each portal is described by its query capabilities — what you can actually search, filter, download, and link to.

How to read this guide

  • Portals are grouped by who runs them.
  • Query capabilities = the practical handles a reporter has: filters, exports, APIs, document-level detail.
  • Headline funding figures are time-sensitive snapshots (mid-2026) — re-check the live page before publishing a number.

Four families of portals

  1. EU institutional portals
  2. International financial institutions (IFIs)
  3. UN / humanitarian
  4. Ukrainian government portals
One

EU institutional
portals

EU

Ukraine Facility Scoreboard

enlargement.ec.europa.eu → ukraine-facility / scoreboard

The flagship Ukraine Facility (€50bn, 2024–2027). Pillar I = reform-conditioned budget support.

  • Browse the reform “steps” Ukraine must fulfil to unlock each payment (fulfilled / pending).
  • See amounts disbursed per quarterly payment, linked to specific conditions.
  • Mandated under Reg. (EU) 2024/792; updated twice a year, live since Jan 2025.

Best for: tracing whether money flows against actual reform progress.

EU

EU Financial Transparency System

ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system

Beneficiaries of directly-managed EU budget funds — grants and contracts paid straight from Brussels.

  • Search by beneficiary, country, year, budget line, managing DG, and amount.
  • Filterable to recipients in or working on Ukraine. Annual data; downloadable.
  • Caveat: centrally-managed funds only — not money managed by member states or Ukraine.
EU

EU Funding & Tenders Portal

ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal

EU grant calls for proposals, awards, and beneficiaries across programmes.

  • Search open/closed calls; filter by programme, topic, deadline.
  • Look up awarded projects and participating organisations.
  • Useful for identifying Ukrainian or recovery-focused organisations receiving EU grants.
EU

TED — Tenders Electronic Daily

ted.europa.eu

EU public procurement — tender notices and contract awards.

  • Full-text and structured search by country, buyer, contractor, CPV, value, date.
  • Bulk download / API access to notices — a strong machine-readable source.

Best for: finding who won reconstruction-related EU contracts.

EU

Kohesio

kohesio.ec.europa.eu

EU cohesion-policy projects and beneficiaries across member states.

  • Search individual projects by country, region, fund, theme, beneficiary.
  • Relevant to Ukraine indirectly — e.g. refugee-support / CARE spending inside the EU.
  • Caveat: member-state projects, not spending inside Ukraine.
EU

EU Aid Explorer / Team Europe

team-europe-explorer.europa.eu — ODA & TOSSD

Aggregated EU development and humanitarian aid flows, including the combined “Team Europe” (EU + member states) contribution.

  • Filter aid flows by recipient country, sector, year, donor.
  • Visualisations + data export.
  • A channel DG ECHO now uses to centralise humanitarian reporting (with UN OCHA FTS and IATI).
Two

International financial
institutions

IFI

EBRD — Project Summary Documents

ebrd.com → project-summary-documents · data

EBRD investments. €7.6bn cumulative wartime financing by July 2025 (~€2.4bn in 2024, a record at the time).

  • Project-level documents filterable by country, sector, status, date.
  • Each PSD names the client, sector, financing amount, and purpose.

Best for: identifying specific EBRD-backed projects (energy, infrastructure, private sector).

IFI

EIB — Solidarity with Ukraine

eib.org → eib-solidarity-ukraine · projects database

European Investment Bank lending. EIB Group provided a record €1.5bn for Ukraine in 2025.

  • Search the projects database by country, sector, status, signature date.
  • Project pages list financing amount, promoter, and description.
  • EIB also delivers a €2bn guarantee under the Ukraine Facility’s Investment Framework.
Three

UN /
humanitarian

UN

UN OCHA Financial Tracking System

fts.unocha.org

All humanitarian funding flows globally, including DG ECHO contributions to Ukraine. Now DG ECHO’s primary channel (in-house EDRIS discontinued July 2025).

  • Filter by country (Ukraine), donor, recipient organisation, year, cluster/sector.
  • Track appeals vs. funding received; donor-by-donor and organisation breakdowns.
  • Full data export / API.

Best for: who funded what humanitarian response, and how much of an appeal was met.

Four

Ukrainian
government portals

UA GOV

DREAM

dream.gov.ua/en · DREAM Аналітика

Ukraine’s flagship reconstruction-project tracking system — every recovery project end-to-end (need → planning → procurement → construction → completion). Built on Open Contracting standards.

  • Track individual reconstruction projects with full lifecycle data.
  • Designed for open, machine-readable data; cross-links with procurement records.

Best for: the single most important portal for following reconstruction money inside Ukraine at project level.

UA GOV

Spending.gov.ua (E-Data)

spending.gov.ua · e-data.gov.ua

Ukraine’s national public-spending transparency platform — transactions from the Treasury.

  • Search individual government payments by spending unit, recipient, amount, date.
  • Covers state and local budget transactions.

Best for: granular, transaction-level view of how Ukrainian public bodies spend money.

UA GOV

OpenBudget

openbudget.gov.ua

Ukraine’s budget portal — planned vs. executed budgets at state and local level.

  • Drill into budget allocations and execution by programme, region, spending unit.

Best for: the budget side (what was allocated) to pair with Spending.gov.ua (what was paid).

UA GOV

Prozorro

prozorro.gov.ua/en

Ukraine’s public procurement system — tenders and contract awards. The backbone for reconstruction procurement.

  • Search tenders and awards by buyer, supplier, category, value, status.
  • Open data + analytics (see also Prozorro.Sale and the DOZORRO civic-monitoring layer).

Best for: who is winning reconstruction contracts and at what price.

Recurring traps

Recurring traps checklist

  • Stage of money: pledged ≠ committed ≠ allocated ≠ disbursed ≠ spent. Pin down which one.
  • Currency & FX date: aid in EUR/USD, Ukrainian spending in UAH. Convert at the transaction date, not today’s rate.
  • Timing lag: money can sit in the Treasury for months before it is spent. Compare like periods.
  • Fungibility: general budget support may not trace to a specific output. Be precise about what your data can and cannot prove.
Takeaway
  • Match the portal to the question — EU, IFI, UN, or Ukrainian source.
  • Project-level detail lives in DREAM, EBRD, EIB and TED/Prozorro awards.
  • Cross-check allocated vs. spent, and always pin the stage of money.
  • Re-check live figures before publishing — the numbers move.
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