Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 1 ANNUAL REPORT TRANSPARENCY INTERNatiONAL UKRAINE 2016 2 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 3 TRANSparenCY InternatIONAL UKRAINE IS A STRONG MEMBER OF THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT THAT EMBRACES THE TI GLOBAL VISION OF A WORLD, WHERE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, BUSINESS CIRCLES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND EVERYDAY LIFE OF CITIZENS ARE FREE OF CORRUPTION. To reduce the level of corruption in OUR Ukraine by promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in MISSION public authorities and civil society. Looking into the future, in 2018 OUR we see ourselves as an organization that can boast of a solid analytical potential, works to scrutinize current anti-corruption policies VISION of the state, and advances towards becoming a full-fledged center for policy development. 4 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 5 YAROSLAV JOSE UGAZ YURCHYSHYN Chair of the Board, Executive Director of Transparency Transparency International International Ukraine Transparency International wit- nessed many highlights in 2016. We have seen significant achievements from our LET US UNITE AND FIGHT chapters in Ukraine, Bangladesh, Hon- TOGETHER TO BREAK THE duras, Kenya, and many, many others. CHAIN OF CORRUPTION. Transparency International Ukraine together with civil society and journalists worked much to bring closer the visa-free regime with Europe and make the au- thorities fulfil their promises concerning the introduction of e-declarations. More than 100,000 of public officials filed their declarations online. Information disclo- 2016 has passed, a year of mixed ex- assessed by 52% of Ukrainians, adop- sure on their own income and making periences and contrasts. tion of the law on transparent party fi- it available is a progressive step towards nancing. Much work is ahead, as 81% of E-declaration has been launched, accountability, integrity and cleaning the citizens consider fight against corruption but the National Agency on Corruption public sector off corrupt officials. to be unsuccessful. Every day we work Prevention (NACP) did not check any This is the first step towards the sys- to satisfy the request for justice, which declarant and did not refer any case to temic fight against corruption. To im- made society rise against the rotten sys- the National Anti-corruption Bureau plement a successful anti-corruption re- tem three years ago. We want corrupt of- (NABU) or other institutions. The po- form the judiciary in Ukraine should be ficials, who steal from Ukrainians, to be litical party financial reporting proce- transformed. During the meeting with brought to justice, and transparent rules dure was formed, but Ukrainian politics President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko I and mechanisms to work in Ukraine. We hardly became more accountable and emphasized that current judicial system will continue working and investing our open. Ukraine at last managed to fulfill is the core obstacle which prevents break- energy into strategic priorities: promote the requirements of the visa liberalization ing the cycle of impunity for corruption. open governance, develop zero tolerance Action Plan, particularly, its anti-corrup- Another way is asking outsiders to act as for corruption, and help those who fight tion component, but did not obtain the neutral observers, partners, trainers and against corruption. long sought-after visa regime facilitation facilitators of change like the successful with the EU countries. We can achieve progress only by unit- International Commission Against Im- ing the efforts of like-minded people from More setbacks can be found. And, punity in Guatemala (CICIG). Unfor- civil society, state and private sectors. probably, there will not be fewer in 2017. tunately, cases against former President Transparency International Ukraine as The future is full of challenges and, there- Viktor Yanukovych and his cronies have a chapter of the global anti-corruption fore, will require a very active work on been stalled because of systemic problems movement is ready to be a platform for our part. TI Ukraine’s team is changing, in the judicial system. As long as Ukrain- uniting all stakeholders who want to help strengthening, and adapting. Our main ian corrupt officials feel impunity, the in making Ukraine strong and clean from office moved from Kropyvnytskyi to Kyiv. system will remain inefficient. corruption. With the assistance of UNDP in Ukraine Thus, the following important step of TI Ukraine underwent the procedure Ukraine towards corruption eradication of organizational capacity assessment, will be the establishment of anti-corrup- developed a plan of top-priority institu- tion courts and increasing all the efforts tional transformations, and got a basic to effectively investigate and bring to institutional support for the transitional court the cases of figurants from the “Ya- period. nukovych sanction list”. It is important There were also victories. The launch not only to activate all the possibilities for of the e-declaration system, which is a efficient investigation, bringing to court success according to 63% of Ukrainians these cases and obtaining convictions, (the Rating group survey) and the work but also to recover the money whether lo- of the ProZorro system, which 49% of cated abroad or within Ukraine. This also respondents consider to be a Ukrainian relates to the corrupt practices within the success, implementation of the competi- current authorities. tive selection of public officials, positively We will fight, we will win! 6 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 7 #VICtorIES THE PROZORRO PUBLIC PEOPLE SAW 800 BILLBOARDS TOGETHER WITH THE PROCUREMENT SYSTEM HAS WITH SOCIAL ADVERTISEMENT FAMILIES OF HEAVENLY SAVED THE StATE 5,08 BILLION AGAINST CORRUPTION IN 15 HUNDRED HEROES THE ANTi- HRYVNIAS IN 2016. REGIONS. CORRUPTION AWARD NAMED AFTER THE HERO YURII POPRAVKA WAS ESTABLISHED. TI UKRAINE EXPERTS HELPED THE CHAIROF TRANSPARENCY 200 WHISTLEBLOWERS IN THE INTERNATIONAL JOSE UGAZ, END OF 2016. WHO MET WITH PRESIDENT PETRO POROSHENKO, VISITED IN PANAMA, AT THE UKRAINE FOR THE FIRST TIME. WORLD TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL IACC INTERNATIONAL ANTi- CORRUPTION CONFERENCE, OPERATING DIRECTOR ANDRII BOROVYK AND MEMBER OF THE PROZORRO.SALE SYSTEM’S THE BOARD VITALII KASKO AMOUNT OF GOODS EXCEEDED TOLD ABOUT THE COURSE 40 MILLION HRYVNIAS. OF ASSET RECOVERY OF DuE TO THE CONSOLIDATED YANUKOVYCH AND HIS WORK OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND ALLIES AND FIGHT AGAINST INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE CORRUPTION AMONG OF THE TRANSPARENCY UKRAINIAN HIgh-rANKING INTERNATIONAL NETWORK, OFFICIALS. THE e-dECLARATION SYSTEM HAS BEEN LAUNCHED. ABOUT THROUGH OUR LECTURES, 100,000 OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS 700 PEOPLE LEARNED HOW TO DECLARED THEIR INCOME. FIGHT CORRUPTION. THE PARLIAMENT ADOPTED THE PROZORRO SYSTEM GOT ТІ UKRAINE AND ANTi- THE LAW ON TRANSPARENT THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD CORRUPTION ACTION CENTRE FINANCING OF POLITICAL THE SPHERE OF PROCUREMENT HOLD THE ІІІ INTERNATIONAL PARTIES FROM THE STATE WORLD PROCUREMENT CONFERENCE ON RECOVERY BUDGET, WHICH WAS AWARDS 2016. OF THE ASSETS StOLEN BY ADVOCATED BY TI UKRAINE CORRUPT POLITICAL ELITE. AND ITS PARTNERS. 8 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 Annual report Transparency International Ukraine / 2016 9 INSTITUTIONAL DEVelopMENT NEW EXECUTIVE NEW BOARD NEW ACCENTS NEW DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR PLAN TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE IS ENTERING 2017 RENEWED AND INVIGO- In the summer of 2016, On October 15, 2016, during In the autumn of 2016, TI In summer 2016, TI RATED! THE UKRAINIAN CHAPTER OF THE YAROSLAV the conference the members Ukraine set its strategic pri- Ukraine underwent a pro- WORLD’S FOREMOST ANTi-cORRUPTION YURCHYSHYN, of ТІ Ukraine elected its orities and implementation cedure of organizational ORGANIZATION STRIVES FOR THE ERADI- became the new executive board. The new members of strategies for 2016-2018. Our capacity comprehensive as- CATION OF CORRUPTION IN THE COUN- director of TI Ukraine. He the Board are top priorities are: sessment with the support of TRY. WE MUST INCREASE OUR OWN IN- was chosen by the Board the Enhanced Public Sector FluENCE TO REACH THIS GOAL! WE ARE JUHANI GROSSMANN, through a competitive Head of anti-corruption Transparency and Integrity RESOLVED TO BECOME BEttER, MORE search. Yaroslav is an expert OPEN AND UNDP project. PROFOUND, AND THOROUGH. WE WILL projects in Western Europe in advocacy and anti-cor- and South-Western Asia; INDEPENDENT MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN ruption policy, holding a de- TI Ukraine‘s team has YOUR CONFIDENCE IN US AND OUR EFFI- gree in history and political VITALII KASKO, GOVERNMENT: formed an organizational de- velopment plan (inner trans- CIENCY. studies. Yaroslav headed the former Deputy Prosecutor monitoring of public pro- advocacy campaign for the General, lawyer; formations of the organiza- curement and sales integrity, tion, procedures, politics and Reanimation Package of Re- YULIA KLYMENKO, Open Government Partner- forms (RPR) coalition and transition to the program- former Deputy Minister of ship Initiative’s standards im- based approach) based on remains a leading expert of Economic Development; plementation. the RPR Anti-Corruption the findings, and received an institutional support for the group. In January he was ANDRII MARUSOV, ZERO TOLERANCE elected the Co-head