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Author’s analysis offers current state of play on preventing and countering corruption policy in Ukraine. The publication also includes recommendation and actions to be taken for struggling corruption.

Policy for preventing and counteracting corruption in Ukraine

Oleksiy Khmara,
TORO, Creative Union (Transparency International National Contact in Ukraine)

In the frames of VLAP (especially in the 1st phase) Ukraine is not supposed to remove corruption completely.Expectations of this kind would be too idealistic. At the same time setting the proper legal framework and institutional setup is an obvious requirement.

The government is expected to demonstrate sufficient political will which should be translated into viable plans of anticorruption measures with certain timeframes, responsible bodies and resource allocation. Corruption remains one of the key problems hindering economic growth and development of Ukraine. Under the pretext of active political competition political and business elites de facto subordinated the state apparatus.The whole system regulating public policy is interconnected to the interests of business elites[1], building ground for the corruption growth at all administration levels including political institutions.

High level of social tolerance towards corruption contributed to corruption growth. In 2011 Ukrainian citizens placed corruption on the forth position among the foremost problems concerning them; while the low living standards, unemployment, high cost and low quality of health protection system were considered more important by the citizens. According to the Global Corruption Barometer data developed by Transparency International, citizens consider political parties, parliament, police, state services and public sector as well as judicial bodies to be the most corrupt institutions (see Table 1).

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