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Executive Summary
This report outlines ways in which to integrate a gender perspective into Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts, forming the basis for the country’s reconstruction and growth. It draws from desk-based research, country-based analysis, international news media, and interviews with gender and anti-corruption experts. Five interviews were conducted with actors either working in Ukraine or outside the country on providing relevant support, and they include perspectives from a former military gender advisor, an international organisation, a women’s rights organisation, a donor organisation working on women’s rights, and a representative working on restoration. These interviews helped us understand the extent to which gender concerns, particularly those affecting women and girls, were prioritised in anticorruption efforts and vice versa. The study considers how gender dynamics, especially decision-making structures and socio-economic vulnerabilities, shape corruption risks in Ukraine’s post-conflict reconstruction – particularly in the aid distribution, security, and police sectors. The reconstruction agenda has the potential to mitigate the conflict’s disproportionate impact on women, girls, and underrepresented groups; advance their equal participation in conflict resolution and post-conflict processes; and thereby promote integrity, accountability, and transparency of recovery and post-conflict reconstruction processes.