The study analyses specific features of public access to free legal aid services and bodies and organizations that provide access to justice and administrative services; lists the most common legal needs that internally displaced persons may have; and provides testimonies from employees of regional and local free secondary legal aid centres regarding provision of legal aid since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

It also sheds light on practical recommendations how to enhance access to free legal aid in Ukraine. 

The report is based on a comprehensive study prepared by a team of authors from Sotsio-inform, the Ukrainian Centre for Public Opinion Research, with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ukraine in the framework of the UN Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme (UN RPP), and with financial support from the European Union.

Experts from the Human Rights for Ukraine project — which is being implemented by the United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark between 2019 and 2023 — were also involved in this study.