272 expected strategic results! 1730 scheduled events! About 100 responsible performers! A year of work! Hundreds of consultations and dozens of public discussions! 525 pages of tables with graphs! The deadlines, sources, huge amounts of funding, and performance indicators are clearly defined for each item.

For our young and somewhat sloppy state, this is the first detailed step-by-step guide in history, which should help solve one of the political, economic, social, and legal problems that have been extremely painful for decades.

And also how to create a positive experience of a gradual, meticulous solutions to other similar problems. It is about the State anti-corruption program for 2023-2025.

Unfortunately, some actors dissuade the Government from approving the Program.

Why?

Precisely because, in case of its approval, each of the ministries, other than central and local bodies of executive power, state enterprises, institutions, and organizations will have to work together and finally resolutely eradicate corruption thickets, namely:

1. to ensure the implementation of each item of the Program,
2. to systematically submit information on their implementation to the NACP and to hold managers personally responsible.

However, the current level of legal awareness of some of these leaders is such that it does not allow even to recognize the existence of a problem, not even to mention finding a solution. 

79 authorities, institutions, etc., approved the Program without any comments.

But, as they say: those who want (to do something) look for opportunities, and those who don’t want to, look for reasons.

So what we have is the following: with the joint efforts of some potential executors of the Program and other subjects (46 of them), more than 500 comments were written. To do nothing, to not change anything.

Therefore, the approval of the Program is currently under significant threat.

Its non-approval will mean, to put it very briefly:

• at least one year lost to start solving the problem (I would like to remind that from 2017 to 2022, the state did not even have an Anti-Corruption Strategy, and the Strategy’s implementation tool is the Program);
• a few more lost years on the way to the EU and NATO. After all, who needs us with 32 points out of 100 possible in the Corruption Perceptions Index, 122nd place out of 180 countries in the CPI?

We will not restore order neither in construction business, nor in customs, nor courts. Investments, aid, and loans, which are so necessary for us after the war, will not arrive.

Mykola Khavroniuk, Member of the Board, Centre of Policy and Legal Reform