The National Agency on Corruption Prevention will consider proposals of experts of the StateWatch think tank regarding measures to prepare a draft NATO Building Integrity Program (NATO BI) for 2024. This program must include a number of practical instruments in line with NATO standards which will help Ukraine to strengthen good faith, transparency and accountability as well as mitigate corruption risks in the sector of security and defence. The StateWatch think tank has suggested uniting efforts with NACP experts and NATO representative office in Ukraine, and hold joint educational events on:
- dynamics and peculiarities of the implementation of the State Anti-CorruptionProgram for 2023-2025 in the sector of security and defence;
- mechanisms of democratic control over budget expenditures in the defence sectorusing examples of practical cases during the martial law;
- assessment and prevention of corruption risks while conducting defenceprocurements based on the practices of the State Rear Operator at the Ministry ofDefence;
- prevention of corruption risks within the corporate reform of the Ukrainian DefenceIndustry JSC;
- organization of good faith personnel competitions to fill in vacancies with highercorruption risks on the example of activities of the Nomination Committee of theUkrainian Defence Industry JSC;
Based on such educational event, the next step will be the elaboration of a manual on cases to introduce good governance practices in the sector of security and defence during the martial law. The recommendations of StateWatch, in turn, have been considered and submitted to the representative Office of NATO in Ukraine for further approval. Let us remind that, in June of 2023, the NACP Deputy Chief, Yaroslav Liubchenko, was appointed to the position of the National Coordinator on Collaboration of Ukraine and NATO in the sphere of Good Faith Development. Being a member of the Commission on Coordination of Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, he is responsible for coordination of the NATO BI Program.