• Assistance in the implementation of the citizens constitutional right to participate in public affairs.
• Public control over the activities of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, institutions, agencies, businesses and organizations.
• Promoting the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine's consideration of public opinion in the formation and implementation of state policy in the military sector.

The condition for the successful implementation of the Anti-corruption Program of the Ministry of Defence Ukraine for 2015-2017 is the development and implementation of an independent external monitoring and evaluation. External monitoring and evaluation of implementation of the Anti-corruption Program of the Ministry of Defence Ukraine is being carried out by the Anti-corruption Expert Advisory Committee and Defence Corruption Monitoring Committee of the Transparency International. External monitoring includes non-governmental organizations, leading national and international experts, independent institutions in order to maintain objectivity and impartiality.

The project will build on TI-DSP's previous engagement in Ukraine to inject strong public oversight and monitoring of the defence sector, and improve the transparency - and therefore efficiency - of security assistance.

The aim is to support reform through external monitoring and pressure, specifically through the creation of a Defence Corruption Monitoring Committee. This idea build on the well documented success of the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee in Afghanistan. The Defence Corruption Monitoring Committee will be a joint international and national monitoring group that will monitor the MOD's progress on reform, provide a channel for raising corruption cases and communicate with the broader public on defence reform progress. Its objective is to sustain external pressure on the MOD to implement anti-corruption reforms and build public confidence in Ukraine's defence institutions.

The DCMC's main activities will be:

• Establish clear public expectations of anti-corruption reform in the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces, and conduct reviews on progress. The DCMC will publish government commitments on the anti-corruption action plan, and conduct regular reviews on reforms. In addition, a baseline assessment will be conducted by the TI-DSP team using the Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index (GI) methodology so the DCMC can hit the ground running and encourage the government to focus on priority areas. In addition to measuring progression the GI methodology, this component will also include a review of prosecutions of defence personnel for corruption and related crimes.
• Bring to government and public attention instances of corruption in defence and security sector to create pressure for reforms. A website and tex/telephone hotline will be created to allow citizens to securely report cases of corruption in the defence and security sector to the DCMC, which can then be investigated further, and/or the data about the case collected for advocacy work and more general research.
• Monitoring transparency and accountability of security assistance. Initially, a baseline assessment of the corruption risks in security assistance provision will be conducted by TI-DSP, which will inform the group. One of the big accountability challenges in security assistance is the lack of transparency from donors or simply that information is scattered. In the pilot phase, the DCMC will begin publishing security assistance contributions from donors on a single online platform.