In 2025, the implementation cycle of the Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2021–2025—the primary strategic document in the field of corruption prevention and counteraction in Ukraine—came to an end. In this regard, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) conducted comprehensive work throughout 2025 to prepare the draft of the new Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2026–2030 (the Strategy), aimed at ensuring the continuity, consistency, and increased effectiveness of anti-corruption reforms over the next five-year period.
As Dmytro Kalmykov, Deputy Head of the NACP, stated, the draft Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2026–2030 consists of two interconnected vectors for the development of state anti-corruption policy.
"The first vector is aimed at ensuring the high efficiency of the overall system for preventing and combating corruption. The second is focused on minimising corruption in the most affected and strategically important sectors through the implementation of comprehensive and systemic sectoral reforms. Both vectors are conceptually reflected in Section I and Section II of the draft Strategy, respectively," noted Dmytro Kalmykov.
Section I of the draft Strategy defines key problems and expected strategic results across ten basic areas of general anti-corruption policy. These include: the formation, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of state anti-corruption policy; anti-corruption education, awareness-raising, and information policy; the functioning of anti-corruption programs and authorized units (authorized persons) for the prevention and detection of corruption, as well as ensuring integrity in the private sector; strategic analysis of corruption risks and anti-corruption expertise of draft and existing regulatory legal acts; the management of conflicts of interest, related rules, prohibitions, and restrictions, as well as lobbying; financial control regarding declaring subjects; whistleblower protection; ensuring the legality and transparency of political finance; combating corruption and corruption-related offences; and the independence, institutional resilience, and effectiveness of anti-corruption institutions.
Section II of the draft Strategy is dedicated to defining key problems and strategic results in 16 priority areas, which include, in particular: the judiciary and the status of judges; the prosecution service, law enforcement, and combating crime; the bar and legal aid; defence; construction; recovery; energy; public procurement; state regulation and control in the economic sphere; taxation; customs; subsoil use; the land sector; the agricultural sector; healthcare; and education and science.
"The work on the draft Strategy was carried out in stages and began with a comprehensive 'inventory' of state functions, the formation of a list of public policy areas, and an analytical study of the Corruption Susceptibility Index. The results of this study served as the foundation for identifying the priority areas included in Section II of the draft Strategy," explained Dmytro Kalmykov, Deputy Head of the NACP.
At the beginning of 2025, a unified methodological framework was developed to conduct comprehensive research and formulate proposals for the draft Strategy. Twenty-six expert teams were involved in the work on the draft, 10 of which worked on preparing materials for Section I of the draft Strategy, and 16 for Section II. The teams for Section I were primarily composed of NACP analysts, while representatives of external expert and analytical centres were extensively involved in preparing materials for Section II. In total, over 130 experts contributed to the work on the draft Strategy, including representatives of non-governmental organisations, law firms, scientific and educational institutions, as well as international technical assistance projects.
Public consultations were a vital element in the preparation of the draft Strategy. Between October and December 2025, the NACP conducted 26 public consultations involving more than 700 individuals—representatives of scientific and expert circles, non-governmental organisations, the bar, and other stakeholders. The summarised results of these discussions have been published on the Agency's official website.
As a result of this multi-level effort, the NACP completed the preparation of the draft Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2026–2030 in 2025—the key framework document for the next five-year cycle of state anti-corruption policy.
The key priorities for the NACP’s activities in the area of anti-corruption policy for 2026 are the approval of the Strategy, as well as the development and approval of a new State Anti-Corruption Program, which will serve as the primary instrument for the practical implementation of the Strategy's provisions.
Detailed information regarding the work on the draft document was discussed during the National Anti-Corruption Forum "Integrity 2030: Anti-Corruption Strategy of the Future," organized by the NACP with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with funding from the Government of Japan and the OSCE Support Programme for Ukraine.
The video recording of the event can be viewed at the following links:
Panel 1: https://cutt.ly/htzqAbnM
Panel 2: https://cutt.ly/LtzqLtq5
Read more about the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2021–2025 and the NACP's work on forming state anti-corruption policy here.
