This report contains the results of the assessment of the institutional capacity of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast, including the studies of work activity management, human resources, interaction with the community, logistic and maintenance support and other factors. It also in­cludes some conclusions and recommendations for improving the work of the po­lice in the oblast.

With the purpose of implementation of this assessment, a special original toolkit has been developed, the questions of which were based on the provisions of the UNDP Capacity Assessment Methodology and the Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit cre­ated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, taking into account some lo­cal peculiarities of the legislation and the system of management of governmental authorities.

The information was obtained from responses to the inquiries and collected during the interviews with key personnel of the State Emergency Service in Donetsk Oblast. In total, 25 in-depth interviews were completed over the period from October 2019 to February 2020.

This report may be useful for personnel of the State Emergency Service (SES), repre­sentatives of local authorities, international and national NGOs, as well as for any­one interested in community security and participation of population in law enforce­ment in Ukraine.