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By Alesia Kachur
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The TI movement is reinvigorating its anti-corruption work in Ukraine by making the Anticorruption Committee (ACC), its new contact group. Since its foundation in 2001, ACC’s work has focused on monitoring election campaigns and political party financing. Now they are expanding their efforts into public procurement monitoring and research, as well as raising awareness about corrupt practices in higher education in Ukraine. |
The establishment of a new TI contact group in Ukraine coincides with the start-up of several major programmes funded by USAID’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the World Bank and the European Union (EU). In early December 2006, Ukraine was approved for the MCC Threshold Program and received $45 million USD to fight corruption.
It is already apparent that a TI presence in the country has been missed and that the new TI group’s efforts are not only welcome but necessary to create a strong push from civil society for more effective reform in curbing corruption. TI looks forward to working with ACC in its efforts to restore some hope to the Ukrainian people that they can influence the reform process.