OECD Integrity and Anti-Corruption Review of Ukraine

Ukraine has made significant strides in reforming its anti-corruption framework in the past decade. It has done so by enhancing transparency, accountability, and integrity through open data, digitalisation, and bolstering of the independence of anti-corruption bodies. However, corruption risks remain high in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which makes having a robust public integrity system more critical than ever to ensure a transparent and effective reconstruction process. This review delivers recommendations to strengthen Ukraine’s legal and institutional framework, embed a culture of integrity in state bodies and society, enhance judicial accountability, and reinforce control and audit mechanisms. It also explores ways to reinforce whistleblower protection, implement lobbying regulations and promote business integrity – through awareness raising, adoption of company-level anti-corruption compliance programmes and incentivising good corporate behaviour through public advantages and criminal law measures. Together, these measures can help to promote trust, drive economic recovery and sustain international support for Ukraine now and in the future.