At the request of the Ukrainian government, with the financial support of DFID (the UK Department for International Development), SIDA (the Swedish International Development Agency) and upon the endorsement of the European Commission, SIGMA carried out governance assessment in Ukraine at the beginning of 2006. The assessment was developed according to  SIGMA’s competence, methodology and baselines that are usually used to assess public administration in candidate countries.

A final report was delivered in March 2006, and its main conclusions were presented at an international conference "Strategy of Administrating the Reform: SIGMA Recommendations to the Ukraine’s Government" held in Kiev in July 2006. In 2007, SIGMA presented an updated report.  

In 2008, the European Commission decided to allow the countries covered by the European Neighborhood Policy to use an institution building instrument of European Commission, SIGMA, in 2008-2011. Active use of this opportunity by Ukraine will enable to engage leading European experts to the adaptation of administrative legislation and administrative justice, cost management, control, internal and external audit, procurement, civil service, policy coordination and regulatory management to the standards of the European Union.

Reference: SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management) is a joint initiative of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), principally financed by the EU.

The documents related to governance assessment:  

•  Ukraine Governance Assessment, February 2007 (English)
•  Ukraine Governance Assessment, March 2006 (Ukrainian) 
•  Ukraine Governance Assessment, March 2006 (English)

• Civil Service sector presentation
• Civil Service Administration Framework General Presentation
• Legal Administrative Framework
• Public Expenditure Management
• Policy Capacities
• Public Procurement Presentation
• External Audit
• Pubic Internal Financial Control
• Public Internal Financial Control_1