Chervonohrad is the third most populous city in Lviv Oblast and an important center of the mining industry. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the community has received up to 15,000 internally displaced people. Some of them settled in the city: they bought housing, found jobs, and sent their children to school.
The mayor of Chervonohrad and the city council have set themselves a great goal – to make the city attractive for investment, create new jobs, and provide comfortable living conditions.
In 2019, Chervonohrad joined Integrity Cities of the EUACI to become a transparent city. As a result of the cooperation, the city adopted an Integrity Plan, a set of specific anti-corruption measures with clearly defined implementers. By the time the full-scale invasion began, it was 70% complete, which strengthened the city council’s institutional capacity and prepared all employees of the executive committee for challenges such as war.
Over the five years of cooperation, Chervonohrad City Council and the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative have implemented 8 modules of the geographic information system, conducted an integrity assessment of 2 municipal enterprises, and launched the city’s e-reception.
Thanks to cooperation, the city has begun to transform its procurement processes, in particular, in the summer of 2024, the Executive Committee approved mandatory monitoring of prices for basic material resources during construction and repairs.
In 2021, Chervonohrad was ranked 18th in Transparency International Ukraine’s city transparency ranking. In just one year, the city has risen by 34 places in this ranking. And in 2023, Chervonohrad moved from ‘non-transparent’ cities to ‘partially transparent’.
In April of this year, the Head of the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative, Allan Pag Christensen, and the Mayor of Chervonohrad, Andriy Zalivskyi, signed a memorandum of cooperation. This document confirmed the readiness of both the city and the programme to continue working together to prevent corruption and build a virtuous society.
Further cooperation focuses on implementing the Municipal Integrity Plan, ensuring the sustainable functioning of implemented IT tools, and enhancing the efficiency of municipal enterprises. Additionally, improving procurement processes was identified as one of the priorities in the cooperation.
For more information on the joint work of the Anti-Corruption Initiative and Chervonohrad, please see the News section or the official website of the city council.
