The war that Russia started against Ukraine causes significant damage to our country’s infrastructure every day, which indirectly affects the lives of the entire population. Regular shelling increases the total amount of direct damage to residential and non-residential real estate every day. This extremely difficult situation requires decisions to be made not only to rebuild individual facilities, but also to take a comprehensive state approach to the recovery process.
Back in December 2022, Transparency International (TI) Ukraine prepared a concept for rebuilding Ukraine, where it offered its own vision of how to address the biggest risks that may arise in the process of rebuilding the country.
In particular, TI Ukraine proposes to overcome these risks by applying reconstruction tools: electronic systems for identifying the life cycle of projects that would allow them to be implemented as openly and transparently as possible.
The first in this list was the DREAM electronic recovery management system, which allows monitoring of recovery projects and tracking the results of recovery, and thus helps to reduce corruption and increase transparency.
Most of the Ukrainian cities studied by TI Ukraine have already started using this system.
As of May, more than 1,300 projects with a total budget of about UAH 80 billion are planned to be implemented in these communities.
Recently, the results of a study of the use of the DREAM system at the local level were published.
Thus, as of May 1, 2024, 67 out of 80 cities surveyed used the system, i.e. had initiated projects. In total, the DREAM system had public profiles of 75 urban communities.
The statistics available in these profiles show that 1309 projects with a total budget of UAH 79.95 billion are planned to be implemented on the territories of the communities. Among them, 76% of projects are designated as “reconstruction/modernization/repair,” 19% as “new construction,” and 5% as “goods/equipment.”
The largest number of initiated projects is planned for the territories of Mykolaiv, Irpin, and Kharkiv communities.
