During 2024 Green Powered Technology (GPTech) in collaboration with Ukrhydroproject and Vasil Kisil and Partners completed and delivered to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a preliminary feasibility study assessing technical, legal, and regulatory requirements for reconstruction of irrigation and drainage networks by water use organizations (WUOs) in Ukraine to be implemented later under USAID Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO).
It was part of the larger effort of sustaining a continued amelioration reform and establishment of new WUOs and the first stage in a plan to provide international technical assistance to 14 WUOs for restoration and modernizing of a large part of the vast but aging and underperforming amelioration systems, which is critical for support of local agricultural producers, regional sustainability, and food security. As of early 2025, the activity was awaiting continuation.
GPTech and Ukrhydroproject joint team conducted preliminary surveys of the amelioration systems in the territories of four selected water use organizations. Vasil Kisil and Partners team performed limited legal due diligence of the selected water use organizations, their formation, rights to amelioration systems and underlying land, and contractual relations with the current amelioration networks holders for the purposes of the systems’ operation, maintenance, and reconstruction and reviewed effective laws and regulations on special approvals, permits, mandatory procedures and other specifics of the design, reconstruction, commissioning, and maintenance of water canals, as well as water supply tariff regulation, with the focus on the practical issues incurred and reported by the water use organizations. The resulting report was the joint effort of the teams.
Vasil Kisil and Partners project team consisted of infrastructure, real estate and construction lawyers including Alexander Borodkin, partner, Roman Riabenko, senior associate, Nataliia Kravchuk, associate, and Daryna Liudvyk, associate.
Green Powered Technology, LLC (GPTech), is a global sustainable energy and infrastructure consulting firm and the accredited implementer of the USAID Ukraine Reconstruction Support (URS) international technical assistance project and implements architecture and engineering services for support of infrastructure programs of USAID in Ukraine under contract order No. 7200AA21D00011/72012123F00002.
USAID Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity (AGRO) is implemented by Chemonics International Inc. with the purpose to accelerate the economic development of rural Ukrainian communities with the greatest need through a better governed agricultural sector that encourages more productive, modern, and profitable agricultural micro, small, and medium enterprises that are successfully integrated into competitive markets both in Ukraine and internationally.
Ukrhydroproject PrJSC is the largest engineering company in Ukraine in the field of hydropower and water management construction, which has been operating since 1927. In Ukraine and abroad, it has designed hydroelectric power plants, pumped storage water plants, dams, reservoirs, hydrotechnical and protective structures, channels for navigation, irrigation and water supply, shipping locks, and pumping stations.