Since the beginning of the year, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has provided 100 recommendations to lawmakers to eliminate corruption-prone factors. The vast majority of them were taken into account by the relevant authorities.
For example, NACP experts conducted an anti-corruption assessment of the draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the payment of one-time financial assistance in case of death or disability of a volunteer in connection with the military aggression of the Russian Federation. The document revealed provisions that created conditions for corruption. This includes the non-transparent procedure for establishing and operating an interagency commission to review materials on recognition as combatants and payment of a one-time financial assistance in the event of a volunteer's death or disability. The draft resolution was also inconsistent with current legislation, which created a risk of arbitrary interpretation of the rules.
In its conclusion, the National Agency provided recommendations to eliminate the possibility of corruption by members of these commissions, who could deliberately delay the decision-making process in order to obtain undue benefits from the applicant.
The document's developer, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, took the NACP's recommendations into account in full, and the Government adopted the resolution. In particular, it provides for clear framework requirements for the work of the commissions, a list of decisions they can make, deadlines for clarifying information, and an exhaustive list of grounds for refusing to grant financial assistance. The resolution was aligned with the requirements of the current legislation and supplemented with a list of documents to be submitted by the applicant to receive the payment.
NACP also conducted an anti-corruption assessment of the draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers on the provision of a state subvention for housing for family-type children's homes, orphans and children deprived of parental care. In it, the NACP identified the following corruption-prone factors
- Lack of a transparent mechanism for the work of local commissions;
- a non-transparent procedure for compiling the list of persons on the housing register and the list of persons to be paid monetary compensation;
- the possibility of the local commission to unreasonably refuse to provide financial compensation in case of approval of a mortgage loan and receipt of a letter of guarantee by the applicant.
NACP provided recommendations, which helped eliminate the possibility of corruption in the distribution of subventions from the state budget to local budgets for the implementation of a public investment project to provide housing for family-type orphanages, orphans and children deprived of parental care.
The Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine took into account the recommendations of the National Agency in full, and the Government approved the resolution. The resolution establishes a clear procedure for the establishment and operation of regional (local) commissions and eliminates the non-transparent mechanism for local commissions to provide (or not provide) monetary compensation for partial reimbursement of the down payment on mortgage loans to provide housing for orphans and children deprived of parental care.
In the first quarter of 2025, the NACP monitored 883 draft legal acts (157 draft laws and 726 draft acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine). In 40 of them, experts identified corruption-prone factors, so these documents underwent a more detailed analysis - an anti-corruption expertise.
