Norway's Ministry of Finance, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced NOK 50 million in additional support for anti-corruption work in Ukraine through the Nansen programme, via agreements with Transparency International Ukraine and the Anti-Corruption Action Center. The funding is intended to reduce the risk of misuse of funds linked to Ukraine support and reconstruction, and to underpin conditions for private investment. The support was communicated following a meeting in Washington DC with Ukraine’s finance minister Serhii Marchenko on the margins of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings. Under the arrangement, Transparency International Ukraine will run a project to strengthen civil society oversight of reconstruction projects, prevent misuse of public funds, and strengthen business integrity and compliance among Ukrainian small and medium-sized enterprises, alongside capacity-building for key anti-corruption institutions to detect, investigate and sanction corrupt economic actors. The Anti-Corruption Action Center project will focus on civil society monitoring and investigation of economic actors in reconstruction, energy, minerals and natural resources, as well as business engagement on integrity and work to strengthen regulatory frameworks for integrity and accountability.

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