U4 Helpdesk Answer - Secondary education in Ukraine: Corruption and anti-corruption

The Russian full-scale invasion has disrupted all areas of life in Ukraine, including education in Corruption within secondary the forms of the destruction of many school buildings and the displacement of thousands of education in Ukraine teachers and school-age children. [...] The former has triggered new costs in the form of school repairs and the construction of school bomb shelters, Levels of corruption while the latter has led to significant challenges Corruption is generally perceived by the public to in verifying the number of children in each be a serious issue in Ukraine. [...] into officials from the education department of Poltava city council suspected of conspiring with In a recent case, the director of a vocational several heads of educational institutions on the school in Volyn region repeatedly entered into U4 Anti-Corruption Helpdesk Secondary education in Ukraine: Corruption and anti-corruption 14 contracts for the provision of services with the head of an educa. [...] The founder of the and Science of the Volyn Regional State educational institution has the authority to initiate Administration or the NACP of the conflict of and oversee this process, but decisions are made interest (Район. [...] For example, it has pandemic, it set out clear guidelines on the commissioned domestic assessments in the form tender processes, including the expected cost per of the NACP’s 2022 corruption risk assessment, laptop, in order to prevent the risks of as well as allowed external assessments in the misappropriation or conflict of interest form of the OECD’s 2017 integrity review of (Transparency Inter.