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
- EU institutional portals
- International financial institutions (IFIs)
- UN / humanitarian
- 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.
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 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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