The document outlines principles for reconstruction in Ukraine following the war, including prioritizing fulfillment of sustainable development goals, taking a people-oriented approach, ensuring transparency and accountability, and ensuring Ukraine's ownership of the reconstruction process. It also discusses establishing a digital system called DREAM to allow for transparent selection and management of reconstruction projects. Finally, it addresses efforts to confiscate assets from Russia and individuals supporting the aggression to fund Ukraine's reconstruction, noting over $1 billion in Russian assets have already been confiscated.

1. Ukraine
reconstruction
principles

2. Principles for reconstruction and recovery
Prioritizing fulfilment of SDGs:
achieving “build back better” goals
Urgency: economic reconstruction
and resilience efforts should begin
immediately
People-oriented approach: inclusive,
participatory, human rights-based
and bringing the decision-making
as close to affected population
as possible
Transparency and accountability:
clear public disclosure, monitoring
and accessible grievance mechanisms
Ukraine's ownership. Ukrainian institutions shall
be driving the reconstruction of Ukraine. Only
a nationally owned process can be sustainable.
The international community provides support
and supervision.
Ensuring long-term economic sustainability:
consistent with a national strategy for sustainable
debt, preferencing grants over loans, and striving
to protect access to markets and invite foreign
direct investment
Consistency with international law and
compatibility with desire to be a member of the EU
Perpetrator should pay: the priority should be
reconstruction financed through the assets
of the Russian State and the oligarchs
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3. The Cabinet of Ministers is responsible
for the implementation of recovery plans:
political will + capacity = critical
requirement for success
Ownership requires capable teams in
ministries and in regions: fast capacity
building as recovery needs are urgent
Ukraine defines priorities: a technocratic
team of professional people selected on a
competitive basis according to the clearly
specified criteria
National priorities: the balance of interests
and inclusivity
Co-financing by the Ukrainian side (either
on central or local levels) is required
Multi-stakeholder approach: government,
local authorities, international donors,
Ukrainian and foreign business, civil society
Faster and less bureaucratic procedures
for the approval of policies and decisions
without the risk to be prosecuted without
any grounds
Learning by doing approach:
need for a network platform
Ukraine’s ownership

4. Use of existing policy instruments: such as plans
for the strategic development of hromadas and plans
of cities/villages, public hearings as a transparency
component, etc.
Strengthened capacity of hromadas to plan and
implement recovery projects at the local level, attract
financing from international donors, and attract private
business
Involvement of hromadas and local civil society
organizations into economic recovery process
Objective financial mechanisms for recovery at the local
level: no impact of political parties
Participatory budget: involvement of citizens for the
development and implementation of recovery and
modernization projects in hromadas
State support for the defining of number of population
in hromada, its composition, and needs
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Decentralisation
and citizen
participation
U k r a i n e R e c o v e r y
Cookbook

5. Transparency and trust
UKRAINE’S WORLD-LEADING DIGITAL
STATE SERVICES
Prozorro, Prozorro Sales, eHealth, Diia have
not only become successful examples of
digitization of state services & activities, but
also benchmarks being implemented in other
countries of the world.
Ukraine ranked first among European countries in the level of
open data development, sixth place in the overall ranking of the
Open Data Maturity Report in 2021, and topped T-Index 2022.
*Transparency Index 2022, CorruptionRis.org

6. DIGITAL
RESTORATION
ECOSYSTEM FOR
ACCOUNTABLE
MANAGEMENT
DREAM

7. A single digital system allows you to select
and control reconstruction projects
through a single user-friendly interface.
For international financial institutions
(IFIs) and donors, the DREAM provides
opportunities for transparent and open
selection of projects for implementation,
as well as to monitor their implementation
at all stages: from project registration,
development of documentation, to
procurement, construction management
and audit. DREAM is a "single window" for
financing, management and control of
projects.
DREAM
is a state reconstruction
management system that
creates a single digital
pipeline for reconstruction
projects and ensures
transparent and effective
implementation of the
projects at the national
and regional levels

8. Project pipeline in DREAM
Registration of losses
& calculation of needs
Planning &
Public hearings
Project
initiation
Bank
of projects
Financing Procurement Implementation
of the project
Commissioning
of the facility, audit

9. According to official
UN data, the civilian
casualties amount to
including 8,490 killed
and 14,244 injured
Total losses
from the war
Infrastructure
$700 billion
$114 billion
22,734 civilians
The aggressor state
and its accomplices
must compensate
for all losses
One year into war
of Russian assets
has been confiscated
of which by Ukraine
$1 billion
99%
What needs to be done to increase these figures and ensure
compensation at the expense of the aggressor's assets?
THE PERPETRATOR MUST PAY

10. Ukraine
A draft law is being considered that improves
the rights of the defendant and increases the
legitimacy and proportionality of such a
mechanism.
Frozen assets of the sanctioned persons are
confiscated in a judicial procedure, under a
lawsuit filed by the Ministry of Justice with
the High AntiCorruption Court.
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine
has issued 18 decisions.
State assets: confiscation of assets
of 2 Russian banks in Ukraine under
a special law - $470 million
Private assets: А special mechanism for
civil confiscation (forfeiture) of private
assets of the aggression supporters

11. Canada has passed
legislationthat allows
for the confiscation
of both sovereign and
private assets
actively developing relevant
legislation (Estonia, the UK)
waiting for a solution on
the EU level to be adopted
First decision - to transfer
toUkraine the assets of
Russian oligarch Malofeev
The process of confiscating
Abramovich's $26 million
reject the idea of confiscation
(Switzerland, Montenegro)
The assets worth $5.4 million
were confiscated under the
rules of civil forfeiture within
charges of sanctions evasion
Canada USA
Europe
In Europe, some countries are:

12. Why?
What to do?
When?
џ manage the frozen assets efficiently, which should include earning profit
(bank interest) thereof
џ keep the asset freeze effective
џ to provide a mechanism for the confiscation of frozen assets
џ increase the volume of frozen assets by tracing Russian state assets and assets
of nominal owners designated by the sanctioned supporters of the aggression
It will allow to generate a source of funds to compensate for the damage caused
to individuals and companies, as well as the state of Ukraine at large
As soon as possible, without waiting for the end of the war and
a decision recognising the crime of aggression against Ukraine

13. How?
set out an exception to the rule of absolute
sovereign immunity for Russia, which grossly
violates international law and jus cogens norms
establish the obligations to conduct a full audit
of Russian state assets, and to identify the nominal
owners designated by the sanctioned persons with
the subsequent freezing of such assets
set legal framework for the forfeiture (within a civil
procedure) of assets of sanctioned persons who aid
and abet Russian war
provide for a clear prioritisation of compensation
in compliance with the principles of fairness and
proportionality
create a unified fund with representation
of the signatory states in the governing bodies
and a high degree of transparency
An international agreement
(under the auspices of the Council
of Europe) that would:
Sign bilateral agreements on the recognition
and enforcement of Ukrainian judgements
Strengthen control over compliance with sanctions
measures and criminalize sanctions evasion
Introduce a legislative framework that would
allowlimiting sovereign immunity on the basis
of international agreements/decisions of
international organisations on asset confiscation
judicial confiscation of assets of sanctioned persons
who aid and abet the war (NCBF)
Use other available instruments for confiscation
(UWO, anti-money laundering, etc.) and allocate
the money obtained to a special compensation fund
Strengthen the capacity of authorized asset
management agencies to generate proceeds with
a view to allocating them for compensation
Steps to be taken by states