We are getting ever closer to the end of the year — the traditional time to reflect and look back. And no matter how difficult 2022 turned out to be for all of us, we still have achievements that are worth mentioning.

Despite the difficulties of wartime, our organization continued to work and do everything in its power to strengthen the country.

We are grateful to the entire team of Transparency International Ukraine, which made every effort to ensure that the war on the anti-corruption front continued, and to bring victory as soon as possible! We also express our gratitude to all our friends, donors, and partners who supported our activities and fought together with us against corruption during this difficult time.

 

So, let’s summarize what we managed to achieve in 2022:

1.We survived, preserved our team and did not go mad.

2. Received the Amalia Award in the “Impact” category for positive changes that contributed to the fight against corruption. We are thankful to Transparency International for the award!

Based on the open competition, the Board of Transparency International Ukraine appointed Andrii Borovyk the organization’s executive director for a three-year period. He has been leading the organization since 2019.

In total, 57 people applied for the position of the executive director. After studying the documents submitted and conducting interviews, the Board of TI Ukraine decided that Andrii Borovyk is the most suitable candidate for the position.

According to the Charter of the organization, the board members elect the executive director every three years, and the scheduled election was to be held in the spring of 2022. But due to Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, the competition was declared invalid. The new competition was announced in the fall and ended in December 2022. The elected director will lead the organization until 2025.

“The team of TI Ukraine has been standing strong during the war and continues to work hard. We have reconstruction ahead of us, which, among other things, will entail corruption risks. So there is a lot of work ahead. I am grateful for the trust, and I hope that I will help the organization in this difficult time,” says Andrii Borovyk.

He has been working at Transparency International Ukraine for over 6 years. During this time, the organization has developed and launched the systems Prozorro and Prozorro.Sale, for procurement and sale of state-owned property and public property management, and handed them over to the state. The organization has also developed the transparency and accountability rankings of the 100 largest cities in Ukraine.

Bio

Andrii Borovyk is an expert with more than 5 years of experience in anti-corruption advocacy, business consulting, investment analysis and business processes in the public sector. He graduated from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in economics and obtained a master’s degree in business analysis and consulting from Warwick Business School, UK. He was a member of the Public Council at NABU (2018), a member of the re-certification commission at the Prosecutor General’s Office (2019), a member of the commission for the selection of anti-corruption prosecutors (2020).

Andrii is currently a member of the Board of the RISE Coalition and NAKO, the Ethics Committee of the Ukrainian Network for Integrity and Compliance (UNIC) and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). Previously, he served as Chief Administrative Officer in the Office of the Prosecutor General’s Reform and Quality Assurance Division with the Georgia Reform Team and as an investment analyst.

Every two years, the Amalia Award celebrates the professional excellence and impact by the anti-corruption fighters from within the global Transparency International movement.

This year, in the “Impact” category, the award has been given to Transparency International Ukraine.

Since its inception, our team has worked incessantly to make the country stronger: increase transparency, accountability, competitiveness, and efficiency at all levels.

TI Ukraine helped create and subsequently transferred Prozorro, Prozorro. Sale, eHealth, and Prozvit systems to the state. The team also implemented City Transparency and Accountability Rankings, developed the DOZORRO community to control public procurement, and co-founded the RISE UA Coalition, which protects integrity and efficiency in the rebuilding process.

At the same time, the Transparency International Ukraine team comprehensively works on:

• the improvement of the anti-corruption infrastructure of Ukraine: analyzes legislation, advocates for changes, participates in the selection of personnel in institutions, provides recommendations to bodies;
• the asset confiscation processes and their effective management;
• the privatization of public property;
• the reduction of corruption levels at the local level through regular studying of cities, cooperation with city councils, and engaging residents in decision-making;
• defending the interests of the state and promoting the necessary changes in the international arena, etc.

The organization is always focused on co-creating changes with the state, bringing together stakeholders, and constructive partnership.

“Our team is grateful for this award and is committed to making Ukraine stronger. Since the Revolution of Dignity, we regularly provide the authorities with recommendations and ways to implement them, as well as monitor the implementation processes — all in order for the state without corruption to become a norm in Ukraine, and the anti-corruption infrastructure to work smoothly for the benefit of citizens. This is an important award for the organization because it records its significant progress and influence among the 120 countries that are part of the global movement Transparency International,” says Andrii Borovyk, Executive Director of TI Ukraine.

Read more about our history, work, and achievements here: https://ti-ukraine.org/history/en/details.html

We are thankful to Transparency International for the award!

 

More about the award

 

The award is named after Amalia Kostanyan, who was the chair of TI Armenia. She was an anti-corruption hero, who died suddenly in 2010 while engaged in the work that characterized her selfless and fearless contribution to the fight against corruption.

She was just one of the many anti-corruption fighters within the TI family.
In 2010, the Transparency International annual membership meeting decided to establish an award that honors them.

The award has two categories:

• Impact — positive change brought about by an action or chapter. The changes affected peoples’ lives or institutional processes and policies that furthered the anti-corruption cause.
• Professional excellence — advancing the mission of a chapter or Transparency International as a whole through demonstrating professional excellence and expertise in an area of anti-corruption work.

The previous time, in 2019, TI Lithuania’s Transparency School received the award in the “Impact” category. This is an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders. And in the “Professional excellence” category — Ruth Liloqula, executive director of Transparency Solomon Islands, who led the organization during a difficult transformation period for the country.