Kyiv, Ukraine – On October, 7th in the Reanimation Package of Reforms office a media-breakfast
“Ukrainians Сan Сheck Online How Government Spends Their Money!” took place. During the event
the experts of the Center for Political Studies and Analysis and the Reanimation Package of Reforms
Viktor Taran and Viktor Maziarchuk discussed with foreign correspondents and the
representatives of embassies and international institutions the advances in the implementation of
transparent use of public funds as well as presented the new web-platform e-data and its benefits.
Mr Taran presented to the audience the new open budget – visualization of local budget which is
usually very huge and difficult to understand. The developed system is free for any city and implies
simplified visual form of local budget presenting to the public. The data concerns not only the
general information but also very specific data on any local funds expenditures such as information
by years or expenditures per person. Also there is a so-called “budget calendar” with specific dates
in budget development and adoption process when public can really be involved in budget
formation. Mr Maziarchuk presented the benefits of the new web-platform www.e-data.gov.ua –
integrated portal on public funds use developed in cooperation with Ministry of Finance. This new
platform includes the information on state and local budget transactions as well as on agreements
made by state-owned and public utility companies. The platform will be supplemented by data on
KPI (key performance indicator) that demonstrates success of any budget event. The project is
already implemented in 7 regions.
Experts noted that all these measures were made in order to increase public involvement, influence
and control in the field of local budget formation, as well as decrease the corruption level. Now
citizens can benefit from the establishment of e-data integrated portal on public funds use because
they can clearly see, monitor and analyze data related with public funds.
“We are going to engage more new territorial units to transparent use of public funds, but in this
case the political will of newly elected authorities is required”, – noted Mr Taran.
“Now we are organizing special trainings for media workers, representatives of CSOs and public on
how to use web-portal and analyze its data. There would be no system changes without system
pressures”, – added Mr Maziarchuk.
