The press conference "The Government Anti-corruption Program does not Measure Ukraine’s Progress in the Fight Against Corruption” will take place on April 27, 2015 at 11.30 in the Ukraine Crisis Media Center.
The new government anti-corruption program is expected to be an important tool to measure Ukraine’s progress in the fight against corruption.
Open Society Foundation (OSF) experts’ assessments suggest the new program has the following drawbacks:
• It repeats the mistakes of the previous anti-corruption program by focusing mainly on the process rather than on the results;
• It mostly ignores the priorities of the “Strategy for Sustainable Development "Ukraine - 2020", which was approved by the President of Ukraine at January 2015;
• Its performance indicators do not meet the current legislation, namely the Law of Ukraine as of 18.03.2004 №1621-IV "On State Target Programs" and the Procedure for programs’ development and implementation.
OSF, the independent think tank, has repeatedly provided suggestions to the draft program, yet these were largely ignored.
During the press conference OSF will present the Address to the government officials responsible for compliance with the existing legislation in the development of strategic documents, as well as political parties and international organizations and experts, on the need for a comprehensive and integrated assessment of the national anti-corruption program as an important strategic document in the course of the next 3 years.
The Address will be presented by:
Ivan Sikora is former Council of Europe consultant, the expert at anti-corruption group ‘Reanimation Package for Reforms’ (RPR) and ‘RPR – Kyiv’ initiatives, Director of the Open Society Foundation.
Robert Sivers, the Head of the anti-corruption policy department of the Ministry of Justice was also invited to participate in the press conference.
For additional information please contact 050 3824661 or osf55@ukr.net.
More information about OSF proposals to the draft program here: No Repetition of Past Mistakes in Fight Against Corruption (in English)
ABOUT Think-Tank Open Society Foundation (OSF)
The mission of the OSF is to promote open society values and principles in the Ukrainian public agenda as well as enhance the effectiveness and accountably of public policy and finance.
Our experience:
- 3 years of the anti-corruption policy analysis (national anticorruption strategy (the 2011-2015 National Program on the Prevention and Counteracting of the Corruption and prevention conflict of interests policy) and regional/local level governmental anticorruption programs (in Kyiv, Kyiv regional level and in Chernigiv and oblast).
- Open Society Foundation in 2013-2014 provided the general recommendations to the draft of the Kyiv regional anti-corruption governmental program.
- Ivan Sikora as a consultant to local NGO in Chernigiv www.budget.cn.ua based on the own methodological approaches (Anti-Corruption Policy Index), analyzed the impact of the regional and local anti-corruption governmental program. Program as well as shortcoming of its drafting, implementation and reporting are given. More information in the published analytical report: Anti-corruption policy in Chernigiv region: results of public monitoring.
- Open Society Foundation currently develops the new anti-corruption program for Kyiv city.
More information: www.osf.org.ua
