Cedos, based in Kyiv, Ukraine, operates as an independent think tank, urban bureau, and community focused on social and spatial development since 2010. It conducts research, analysis, and urban projects amid the country's post-Euromaidan civic surge and Russia's full-scale invasion.
The organization emerged from the 2013-2014 protests' wave of activism, mapping urban grassroots networks in cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Ivano-Frankivsk from 2014 to 2016. Most initiatives it studied dated to that period, revealing clusters around education, anti-construction efforts, and transport infrastructure.
In 2024, Cedos tracked wartime societal experiences through its sixth survey wave, examined military families' ordeals, army recruitment, and donation motives. It launched the SUN4Ukraine project for climate-neutral cities and hromadas, opened nine community-building centers with 1 million hryvnias subgrants each, and aided recovery programs in five Zaporizhzhia hromadas. Other efforts included Sumy Hromada's development concept and public assemblies in Zviahel and Slavuta.
To manage projects, it registered Cedos LLC alongside the NGO. Its work spans war impacts, urban planning, cohesion labs for vulnerable groups, and local self-government support, often with partners like UMAEF.