UKRAINE’S ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) developed the Anti-Corruption Strategy with experts, civil society activists, international partners and all interested entities. The Strategy serves as a guiding document for Ukraine till 2025.

The NACP is currently developing the Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy. It will include clear key performance indicators for each government body.

Every year, the NACP will assess the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy, preparing a National Report on Implementation of the Anti-Corruption Policy. Also, through this, the Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy may be amended annually in order to sustain its relevance.

 Main principles of the Strategy

The Strategy is based on 5 key principles:

1. Optimization of functions of the state and local government. In particular, it is envisaged to eliminate excessive powers of the state bodies as well as the duplication of their functions.
2. Reduction of the “human factor” and increase in transparency and efficiency of the state’s relations with people and organizations. This will be achieved through the introduction of rules of general administrative procedure and digitalization of most processes and services;
3. Creation of convenient and legal alternatives to corrupt practices;
4. Ensuring effective state control over the observance by public servants of the rules of ethical conduct and requirements of anti-corruption legislation;
5. Ensuring the inevitability of liability for corruption and corruption-related offenses.

The Anti-Corruption Strategy covers the functioning of the general anti-corruption system, identifies priorities for the prevention of corruption in specific sectors of public administration and pays great attention to the liability for corruption.

The priority sectors of public administration identified by the Strategy are as follows:

• litigation;
• state regulation of the economy;
• ensuring economic competition;
• public sector of the economy;
• customs and tax authorities;
• defense sector;
• health care;
• funding of political parties;
• private sector.