EUACI in Ukraine was created with the aim of strengthening the capability of the anti-corruption institutions and increasing parliamentary, civic society and media control over the reforms in Ukraine. The aims of the program are as follows:
improvement of anti-corruption politics implementation
facilitation of reduction in large scale corruption
strengthening of operational and legislative potential of state institutions in prevention and elimination of corruption
increase of parliamentary supervision of reforms, and potential of studying and improving the strategic legislative basis
increase of the potential of local governments, public and media which would enable them to contribute towards anti-corruption activities
Funding
The overall budget of the program is 15.84 million euros. The immediate executor of the program representing the Kingdom of Denmark is DANIDA. The project is implemented as international technical aid, according to Contract No 3582–01 from 15 March 2017, under the Framework Agreement between Ukraine and European Commission. It became the first large scale project aimed at fighting corruption.
Implementation
The program is expected to be implemented during over a period of 3 years, between 15 December 2016 – 14 December 2019. It comprises three сomponents:
Supporting of state agencies dealing with the prevention and fight against corruption.
The assistance to Ukrainian parliament implementation of anti-corruption reforms.
Creation of International Anti-Corruption Advisory Board
The IACAB was created on 8 September 2017 as a result of the a Letter of Intent being signed between the Verkhovna Rada Anti-Corruption Committee and EUACI. It consists of the following members: Carlos Castresana, Anca Jurma, Giovanni Kessler, Drago Kos, Jesper Hjortenberg, Daniel Thelesklaf. IACAB professionals perform analysis of anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine in the areas of investigation, criminal persecution and court consideration of high-profile corruption cases. The experts create reports based on the results of their analysis and provide recommendations to improve the efficiency of Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions.
Component 3
Implemented projects:
Financial support for the project "Local Community Engagement in Anti-Corruption Advocacy Programs with the Assistance of Civic Anti-Corruption Investigations, Supervision and Civic Education". The project is expected to last for one year and will be implemented by the "School of Civic Education" which was created by the civic organisation "Stop Corruption", the Institute of Civic Education "Kyiv Mohyla Academy" and ACREC. During a year a series of training sessions for the activists of "Stop Corruption" will take place; an anti-corruption research and campaign will be carried out in a number of cities.
* 26–28 January 2018 – the first module of the "School of Civic Education"
* 16–18 March 2018 – the second module of the "School of Civic Education"
Support for journalist investigations
* Grant competition for anti-corruption investigations
* Support for a 5-day data journalism school
* Support for the 9th Conference of Investigative Journalism
* Training sessions for journalists: "Technologies of Journalist Investigations", "Journalist Investigations of Corruption and Malpractice in Communal Enterprise", "New Investigators – the School for Regional Journalists", "The Correct Ways of Reading Legal Documents", "Video Storytelling: Create a Story the World Will Understand"
Collaboration with "Integrity Cities" – an anti-corruption program that is planned to be implemented in 6 cities of Ukraine
The Corruption Park
Team
EUACI includes both Ukrainian and foreign professionals:
A Steering Committee was established in order to enable common decision making for implementation of anti-corruption initiatives between the Kingdom of Denmark, EU mission in Ukraine and main institutional beneficiaries. The members of the Steering Committee of the Anti-Corruption Initiative of the European Union in Ukraine are as follows:
