The Government continues to reform the civil service and intensifies its anti-corruption efforts. This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the fourth annual press conference on March 4.

"We are carrying out institutional changes, quite significant reforms. In the anti-corruption sphere, the heads of three anti-corruption institutions have been appointed in open competitions," the Head of Government stressed.

He also emphasised the importance of introducing digitalisation, which helps to avoid corruption at all levels, and assured that work in this direction would continue.

Separately, Denys Shmyhal informed about the developments in changing the format of government institutions.

"We want to reduce the number of ministries by one third. We want to reduce the number of civil servants. We have already embarked on this. And this year, 20,000 civil service vacancies have been cut. We are working to create a potent Government Centre," the Prime Minister said.

According to him, ministries should employ a small number of highly qualified specialists who will be responsible for shaping state policy. Instead, the Government Centre will provide support in the human resources, accounting, financial and legal spheres.

"The Government Centre should also quickly and efficiently prepare the documents required by a particular ministry in terms of resolutions and orders. In other words, all auxiliary administrative functions should be concentrated in a single place, in the Government Centre. The ministries will be efficient policy development and analytical centres," explained Denys Shmyhal.

In addition, he noted that work was underway to introduce a modern human resource management system in government agencies, and that Diia was being developed for civil servants.

Photo Gallery of the Press Conference