over the years

Anton Antonenko: adoption of political decisions must be based on quality, up-to-date information

DiXi Group Vice President Anton Antonenko took part in the conference “100+ corruption schemes the government and the public must overcome”, held at the Cabinet of Ministers Club on 26 September. According to the event’s organizer Oksana Velychko, Coordinator of “Together Against Corruption” government-civil society initiative, 110 CSOs described 139 required anticorruption actions to be taken in various sectors. The nearest plans include creation of project teams and appointment of responsible persons representing public authorities and CSOs. Speaking at the conference, Minister Dmytro Dubilet said that the Cabinet of Ministers will establish, jointly with CSOs, working groups to combat corruption schemes in various sectors. In the energy and environment sector, Together Against Corruption (of which DiXi Group is a member) conceived 18 anticorruption ideas concerning performance of public institutions. In the opinion of DiXi Group Vice President Anton Antonenko, this list will be vastly expanded once the project teams will set to work, in particular, as a result of cooperation between various ministries and working groups. “The identified corruption schemes and the ways of overcoming them are the starting point; these ideas could be implemented in the nearest future. We as an analytical center are sure that the adoption of political decisions must be based on clear, verified information which will render corruption offenses impossible. The same applies to policy analysis. Therefore, we need correct and up-to-date information,” DiXi Group Vice President Anton Antonenko said during his speech at the conference. “We work with the Energy Ministry and help them, at least with making data orderly and opening it to the public. As a result, the Ministry is now among the leaders in data opening. The next step is automation of this process. We are ready to help with that,” Mr. Antonenko said. “I would like to devote separate attention to the extractive sector. At present, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has been somewhat slowed down. The Ministry must release the next report by 30 October. We will monitor the publication of this data. The list of anticorruption proposals for the government from Together Against Corruption initiative is available at https://bit.ly/2neUKhm.

Comments

Ukraine Follows a Fossil Fuel Recovery Pathway

Yuliia Oharenko

expert of the DiXi Group project “Promoting Ukraine's Participation in the European Green Deal in the fields of energy and environment”

Ukraine Follows a Fossil Fuel Recovery Pathway

Despite multiple political statements supporting the European Green Deal and announced plans for the development of a joint with the EU Roadmap, Ukraine is moving in an opposite direction. These are the results of Energy Policy Tracker

The “Augean stables” of the extractive sector: is there any progress?

The practice of procuring special extraction permits and then sitting idle on them for decades is unacceptable from the viewpoint of Ukraine’s energy independence and national security, raising budget revenues and the country’s investment attractiveness.

Ukraine improves its ranking under the EITI Standard

Olha Polunina

Manager for Sustainable Development at DiXi Group

Ukraine improves its ranking under the EITI Standard

The EITI Board acknowledged Ukraine’s efforts concerning disclosure of beneficial ownership information, creation of an online EITI reporting portal, and the launch of EITI implementation monitoring and assessment at national level.