The OECD has published its Public Governance Review of Ukraine, assessing the country’s central public governance system and setting out sequenced recommendations to strengthen institutional resilience, effectiveness and democratic governance in support of recovery, long-term development and European Union integration. The review finds that Ukraine has maintained functioning institutions, sustained essential public services and continued its public administration reform agenda during Russia’s war of aggression, but says the war has also deepened structural vulnerabilities, including weaker public trust, fiscal strain and gaps in strategic co-ordination. The review focuses on five priority reform areas agreed with the Government of Ukraine: strategic planning, information integrity, citizen participation, the civil service and artificial intelligence in government. It calls for clearer leadership and stronger links between planning, budgeting and performance monitoring to support recovery and reconstruction; a more coherent institutional approach to information integrity, with wartime restrictions applied transparently and proportionately and independent media and media literacy reinforced; stronger implementation capacity for public consultations and wider citizen participation; a future-ready civil service through the resumption of merit-based recruitment when conditions permit, stronger learning and development, and action on staffing and skills shortages; and formal AI governance, including central co-ordination, impact assessments, transparency, human oversight and a legal framework aligned with the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, building on Ukraine’s digital infrastructure such as Diia and Trembita.

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