Projects

Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre (ACREC) NaUKMA has launched the project “Protecting Public Participation and Media Freedom in Ukraine: Strengthening Democratic Resilience through Anti-SLAPP Mechanisms”. The project will last 10 months and is being implemented with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine. The ACREC team has been working on countering […]

SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are strategic lawsuits against public participation that are used not to protect reputation or rights, but to pressure, intimidate and exhaust journalists, activists and public organisations. Such lawsuits are often filed to silence those who expose corruption, abuse of power, or other issues of public importance. The project was […]

ACREC implemented a research project aimed at developing specific and measurable anti-corruption benchmarks for Ukraine, which can be used to assess the effectiveness of reforms in the process of European integration. As part of the project, the ACREC team conducted research into international standards and EU accession criteria in the field of anti-corruption, focusing on […]

The project, implemented in 2020–2021, aimed to examine specific aspects of how the institution of whistleblowers operates in Ukraine, particularly in the public and private sectors. The aim of the initiative is to deepen the analytical understanding of how the conditions for exposing corruption are formed, as well as how organisations and institutions respond to […]

  We invite you to join the international conference “Whistleblowers in Ukraine: Successes and Challenges”! The goal is to launch Ukraine’s first discussion platform for sharing ideas and networking among experts in whistleblower protection, developing partnerships, figuring out next steps for developing strategies and tactics to establish whistleblowing and protect whistleblowers in Ukraine, and improving […]

Preparing specialists in the field of anti-corruption education is one of ACREC’s key areas of activity. This is why the project “Developing Anti-Corruption Education: Model for the Region”, lasted from 2019 to 2020, was implemented. As part of the project, a regional conference dedicated to the development of educational programmes in the field of anti-corruption […]

As part of this project, ACREC prepared four practice-oriented studies and policy briefs on the effectiveness of legislative and institutional anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine and the effectiveness of their implementation: Research: Civil forfeiture of unjustified assets through the prism of property rights protection. (Policy brief) Research: Free of charge provision of land parcels for housing […]

The project was implemented in 2019 and aimed to develop new analytical approaches and practical recommendations regarding the relationship between gender equality and corruption, in particular their impact on political, administrative and everyday corruption. Given the growing international academic and political interest in the relationship between gender and corruption, the project aimed to investigate whether […]

The research project “Civil Society Against Corruption in Ukraine” aimed to analyse the activities of national and regional civil society organisations in the field of anti-corruption. The project was implemented between 2017 and 2019 and aimed to develop practical recommendations for key stakeholders, in particular the international donor community, on how to strengthen support for […]