OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports corruption assessment

A roundtable meeting held in Kyiv on 19 December 2011 examined the results of a pilot study conducted in Ukraine in 2011 using a new methodology to assess the level of corruption.

During the meeting co-organized by the country’s Justice Ministry and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), the new methodology of a standard survey on the assessment of the corruption level, as well as the key findings of the study were presented. Government officials, legal professionals, and academics proposed modifications to the methodology and discussed how it could be used in Ukraine to assess the corruption level in state institutions. They also discussed the corruption cases that were revealed through the survey in the spheres of education, health care, administrative services, and in the private sector.

The research was conducted in the framework of the project “Support to Detecting and Combating Corruption in Ukraine”, implemented by the PCU in 2011 with the aim of providing methodological support and help in developing statistical tools for the assessment of the corruption level in Ukraine.