MHP / Vinnytsia: original reporting on agribusiness impacts in Ukraine

The challenge

A fact-finding mission to communities downstream of Myronivsky Hliboproduct’s poultry operations returned with the things that matter in accountability comms: water samples, photographs, named villagers who would speak on the record. Translating that material into a story that the IFC’s communications office and lending team could not ignore — without lapsing into either jargon or moral grandstanding — was the brief.

The approach

I worked from the FFM results to design a communications package built around bankwatch.org’s “visual story” longform format: maps, water-test data points, photographs, and human voice arranged to lead the reader through the case at the reader’s own pace. The story published in April 2025. When the IFC moved to approve a USD 80 million working-capital loan in September 2025, I coordinated the joint civil-society letter of concern — signed by partner organisations — that put the lender on notice.

Key outputs

• Visual investigative story on bankwatch.org (April 2025) — the primary public artefact
• Coordinated joint letter of concern to the IFC (September 2025)
• Companion blog on the international financial picture and supporting social
• Stakeholder briefings drawing on the FFM findings

Why this case study

The MHP case is what investigative communications work usually looks like in practice: not the dramatic story, but the careful translation of someone else’s fieldwork into a public artefact that lenders cannot pretend they didn’t see.