We invite you to participate in the event "How Ukraine is spending money on recovery? A Procurement Analysis" held as part of "The recovery spending watchdog". The project is supported by the European Union. 

For the past year, experts from the "The Recovery Spending Watchdog" project have been conducting monthly reviews of recovery spending and procurement in the sector.  During this time, they have identified several challenges that hinder independent data assessment. 

At the event, we will discuss in detail the obstacles civil society organisations face in monitoring recovery procurement, present an analytical note on how Ukraine's procurement system works in the field of reconstruction, and provide recommendations for its improvement. 

The event will be held online on the Zoom platform on May 28 at 17:00 (Kyiv time). 

Agenda: 

17:00 — 17:05 Opening remarks by Henrik Huitfeldt, Head of the Public Finance, Business Support and Social Policies section at the EU Delegation to Ukraine, and Maria Repko, Deputy Director of the Centre for Economic Strategy. 

17:05 — 17:15 Presentation of the analytical brief on Ukraine's procurement system by Volodymyr Landa, Senior Economist  at the Centre for Economic Strategy. 

17:15 — 17:30 Presentation of procurement monitoring by participants of the "Recovery Monitoring" grant program, Anti-Corruption Centre of Koropshchyna and the Steve Jobs Centre for Information Technology Support. 

17:30 — 18:30 Discussion and Q&A.

Invited participants: 

• Valeriia Ivanova, Deputy Head of State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine. 

• Valerii Shergin, Head of the public procurements department of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. 

• Dmytro Shevchuk, Deputy Chairman of the State Audit Service of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalization. 

Moderator: Oleksandra Betliy, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting. 

The event will be conducted in Ukrainian and will be translated into English simultaneously. 

The release was prepared within the framework of the EU-funded project “The recovery spending watchdog”. Previous releases are available here. The project is a joint effort of the Centre for Economic Strategy, the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, and the NGO “Technologies for Progress”. All project participants are members of the RISE coalition.