Transparency International Ukraine has released its 2024 annual report.

Last year, we focused primarily on effective anti-corruption policy, public procurement, transparency of local self-government, the proper confiscation and sale of Russian assets, and strengthening sanctions against the Russian Federation. In each priority area, we achieved significant results that brought us closer to our mission — strengthening Ukraine and reducing corruption. 

“In 2024, despite the war, we continued to defend transparency and integrity as the foundation of European integration and a corruption-free state. We launched new products, uncovered procurement violations, and strengthened our analytical and advocacy capabilities. I am grateful to all our partners and team members — together, we are making Ukraine stronger,” notes TI Ukraine’s Executive Director Andrii Borovyk.

European integration remains a key guiding principle for our organization, as it paves the way for strengthening democracy, the rule of law, and good governance. Just last year, our experts addressed the fight against corruption in the Shadow Report for the European Commission, and our European partners took our recommendations into account to improve their public procurement systems. 

Transparency International Ukraine sincerely thanks all partners who supported us and helped our country remain resilient. This support has always been—and will continue to be—our greatest value in these challenging times.

Transparency International Ukraine has published an annual report on the work of the team in 2022.

Last year, TI Ukraine continued to focus on its key priorities: anti-corruption policy, public procurement, data disclosure at the local level, work on unblocking frozen assets abroad and enhancing sanctions against Russia. In regard to each of the priorities, we have significant results that bring us closer to the implementation of our mission—reducing the level of corruption in Ukraine.

“Comprehensive activities in terms of these and other priorities allow us to assert that TI Ukraine today is an important part of the civil sector with strong expertise, which allows us to play a significant role in the development of our country. These successful results would have been impossible without two components. First of all, the achievements of the organization were ensured by the incredible and dedicated team of Transparency International Ukraine. On the other hand, all our activities were possible thanks to the Defense Forces,” emphasized Andrii Borovyk, Executive Director of Transparency International Ukraine.

In addition to our professional activities, we continued to help our defenders. In 2023, TI Ukraine continued to provide material support to our troops and cities. We purchased quadcopters and blood transfusion kits for our defenders.

We also purchased equipment for cities affected by Russian aggression: 19 Ukrainian municipalities received assistance.

The war has affected and changed everyone. It’s time for people to help the people. Our organization also continues to work and help those who need it.

However, transparency, accountability, and the fight against corruption remain in the priorities of the work. And after reconstruction, we are convinced that this will be an even greater need.

However, at the same time, further movement is impossible without analyzing previous work, reflections on the tasks performed, searching for growth zones and understanding of strengths.

Therefore, we have prepared a report for 2021 with the most important achievements of the team because we are convinced that it is worth moving on after recording the results and analyzing the previous work. Read and watch it here.

In this report, we talk about the achievements that make the state stronger and more resilient to crises. Our team focuses on preventing corruption, engaging the public in reducing it, and the effectiveness of the system of punishing bribe-takers.

For example, we supported and assisted in reforming the anti-corruption infrastructure (the NABU, NACP, SAPO, ARMA, HACC), the transparency of the work of state enterprises and city councils, as well as public procurement (and introduced public control over them)

We believe that our country will use the support of the whole world and the opportunities that we now have, and in 2023, we will talk about the new achievements of the team in the fight for transparency of processes in the state. We keep on working.

Find out more about TI Ukraine’s team focus areas and achievements last year.

The accredited chapter of the global anti-corruption movement Transparency International Ukraine has presented Annual Report 2019. The report contains detailed information on the implementation of the Strategy 2019–2021 and the organization’s achievements in each strategic priority: prevention, punishment, engagement and institutional development.

 

Prevention

In this area, TI Ukraine focused on mitigating corruption risks at the national and local levels through increasing transparency and accountability of the authorities. The teams of Transparent Cities and Innovation Projects, as well as TI Ukraine’s lawyers, did a lot of work on prevention.

Here are our successes:

• Laws on NACP reboot and on corruption whistleblowers have been approved;
• TI Ukraine’s Head of Legal served as the co-chair of the Selection Commission for the Head of the NACP;
• The ProZorro.Sale system, which is a result of three years of our work, has been transferred to the government;
• In partnership with the MEDT team, we have created ProZvit, a public portal of analytical reporting for state-owned enterprises;
• We created DOZORRO bot, which can help you subscribe to a tender and follow its updates;
• We carried out and published three analytical studies on public procurement: procurement of petrol, gas, and the level of trust in ProZorro;
• We advocated an increase in transparency in 38 Ukrainian cities, which led to the cities becoming more transparent and successful.

Punishment

Our goal in this focus area was to ensure an effective system of punishment for corruption-related violations. In this sphere, we:

• Analyzed 30 draft laws, laws and Constitutional Court opinions;
• Analyzed over 120 candidates for the positions of HACC judges and 300 candidates for jobs in the ARMA;
• Published a study on consistency of the ARMA’s functions with human rights;
• Surveyed NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors on certain issues with investigations on Criminal Code of Ukraine articles;
• 4 representatives of TI Ukraine were on the selection and disciplinary commissions of the NABU and the HR commission of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

 

“First, you should always engage in dialogue. We are ready to speak with everyone as long as there is an opportunity to change something. Second, don’t give up! We often talk about combating corruption, but we at TI know that this is impossible. We can only help mitigate corruption. Third, do not forget the values. You always have to make compromises in your work, but there is always a limit you are not ready to cross. That is why it is important to keep in mind the values you carry with you to any system, especially a government agency.” Andrii Borovyk, Executive Director of TI Ukraine

 

Engagement

One of our strategic priorities was to engage as many allies as possible, unite them into an effective network and to ensure its stable support. To do this:

• We held an international conference on the occasion of TI Ukraine’s five-year anniversary.
• Our experts wrote over 60 articles.
• We had six meetings with representatives of the IMF and advocated anti-corruption priorities for Ukraine.
• We participated in a closed meeting with Barack Obama as part of the Global Summit of Open Government Partnership in Ottawa.
• The team of TI Ukraine participated in 149 events during the year.

What did TI Ukraine focus on in 2018? What results did it achieve? Who joined the organization’s projects and who supported it with resources? Find out in TI Ukraine’s annual report. 

In the publication, you can find information on the organization’s effort towards maintaining the current anti-corruption infrastructure. Among other things, you can find out how the organization’s team contributed to the launch of the High Anti-Corruption Court and the work of the Asset Recovery and Management Agency. There is a section on the work of the DOZORRO community and development of BI tools for public procurement monitoring. We report on transfer of the ProZorro.Sale system to the government. The team of the Transparent Cities program has prepared an extensive report on its work in 2018. The team also talks about its work on support of whistleblowers. For the first time, we are reporting on our new focus area – building the capacity of regional civil society organizations. There is also a section on TI Ukraine itself as a leading non-governmental anti-corruption organization: its institutional development, international relations, communications and finance. A financial report is also included.

In the foreword, Executive Director Andrii Borovyk thanks his team for their work:

“I am thankful to the team of Transparency International Ukraine and our partners for all the results we obtained last year. Given 2019 is the year of presidential and parliamentary elections, we can probably expect a pause in reforms. There will be change, undoubtedly, but there will probably be more talk than concrete action. It will be a time to take a good look at the successes and failures of recent years, regroup, accumulate all possible resources and prepare for new victories after the election fuss concludes.”