Inside a bare apartment littered with concrete blocks and slabs of plywood, construction site manager Serhiy Yerokhin points to a large balcony overlooking the treetops of Irpin, a suburb outside of Kyiv occupied and heavily damaged during the first month of Russia's full-scale invasion. Almost two years ago, a missile

DREAM is a large collaborative effort from state bodies such as Ukraine’s Reconstruction Agency, the local and international NGO collective RISE, and international partners including the U.K., which has been the major backer.

At its core, DREAM is an online database for every type of reconstruction project across the country. Anyone can scroll through the website and track the progress of projects as well as access all data to see where the money is coming from and going.

In addition to providing open data for law enforcement and NGOs to keep an eye on corruption, it’s also a centralized platform for businesses and investors to find the tens of thousands of reconstruction projects spread throughout Ukraine.

With an estimated over $410 billion in damages, rebuilding Ukraine will be a massive task. As reconstruction projects take place simultaneously all over the country, DREAM is the government’s response to collate all the data in one place.

Still in its early days, it remains to be seen if DREAM will work in Ukraine’s convoluted reconstruction landscape.

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