Ukraine is a key partner for Expertise France, which has had a local presence since 2006 with a 
representative office and projects. Over the years, Expertise France has built up a relationship of trust 
with its partner administrations. The ongoing projects in Ukraine include: Pravo – Justice. The EUfunded Project Pravo-Justice promotes greater rule of law in Ukraine, in line with European standards 
and comparative practices. Initiative. The project supports beneficiary countries to design, implement, 
monitor, and evaluate funding allocated by the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The 
Emergency Fund for Ukraine against TB & HIV started in December 2022 with a commitment of €5 
million.
Since the start of the of unjustified full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine is daily suffering human losses 
as well as big-scale destruction and damages all across the country. According to the World Bank 
Recovery and Reconstruction Needs Assessment, the estimate cost of the recovery and reconstruction 
in Ukraine has grown to EUR 383 billion. Considering cost of the reconstruction, Ukraine would need 
mobilisation of both public and private funds. 
Ukraine’s need for support is of great scale and priority in the context of the ongoing war and starting to 
prepare for recovery processes. At the same time, Ukraine’s European and international partners are 
heavily mobilized to offer their support, both financial and technical. Therefore, in response to the 
growing needs of Ukraine.
In the response to the existing situation and challenges, France has launched a coordinated assistance 
to Ukraine. The mAIDan Ukraine program is a multisector technical assistance facility funded by the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a part of the French support to Ukraine coordinated by the French Special 
Envoy for Ukraine Relief and Reconstruction. The program’s main objective is to identify needs and 
propose technical cooperation projects that support resilience, reconstruction, and the accession 
process in Ukraine.

Program sub-objectives include mobilisation of the technical solutions to meet the most urgent needs 
and initiate structuring cooperation, as well as financing or co-financing technical assistance projects 
during 2023-2026. 
At this time, Expertise France pre-identified intervention sectors:
- Health, in particular mental health, restorative health, and hospitals
- Rehabilitation and reconstruction of essential infrastructure and urban development
- Transportations and mobility
- Innovation 
- Justice and Rule of Law
- Good governance, including decentralisation
- Economic and financial governance.
The program may mobilize funding for other sectors if demand is expressed and the opportunity is 
confirmed by Expertise France and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France.
Through a series of missions to Ukraine and starting program operations in Kyiv, Expertise France has 
pre-identified the following specific projects:
- Contributing to the selection of Constitutional Court of Ukraine judges through Pravo-Justice
- Supporting Ukrainian start-ups through co-funding of the EU4InnovationEast project
- Supporting local authorities in recovery and decentralization processes with a special focus on 
Chernihiv Oblast
- Technical assistance on support of the State Audit Service of Ukraine (DASU)

General context related to the assignment 
According to Article 453 of Title VI "Financial Cooperation and Anti-Fraud Provisions" of the Association 
Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union, the European Atomic Energy 
Community and their Member States, on the other hand (hereinafter referred to as the "Association 
Agreement"), and its annexes, Ukraine receives financial assistance through the relevant EU funding 
mechanisms and instruments. Article 459 of the Association Agreement stipulates that the parties shall 
take effective measures to prevent and combat fraud, corruption and other illegal activities, inter alia 
through mutual administrative assistance and joint legal support in the areas covered by the Association 
Agreement.
Member States shall combat fraud and any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the 
Union by means of measures to be taken which shall act as a deterrent and ensure effective protection 
in Member States and in all institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union. Member 
States shall take the same measures to combat fraud affecting the financial interests of the Union as 
they take to combat fraud affecting their own financial interests (Article 325 of the Treaty on the 
Functioning of the European Union).
According to paragraph 3 of the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1110 dated 
October 25, 2017 "On the Introduction of a National Mechanism for Coordinating the Interaction of Public 
Authorities to Protect the Financial Interests of Ukraine and the European Union", the State Audit Service 
is authorized to act as the National Contact Point (NCP) for organizing interaction with the European 
Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the European Court of Auditors (ECA) (hereinafter referred to as the 
National Contact Point) on the implementation of Section VI of the AAU. 
As the NCP, the SAS receives and summarizes information on possible irregularities in the use of 
financial assistance received from the European Union in Ukraine and ensures its full transfer to the 
competent authorities of Ukraine and the EU, as well as interacts with public authorities to consider 
official requests for violations of the legislation, the Association Agreement, other international treaties 
concluded between Ukraine and the European Union in the field of EU external assistance, contracts, 
and the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

In order to implement the requirements of Ukrainian legislation and the EU acquis, the SAS takes 
measures to develop a fraud coordination service in Ukraine and participate in the implementation of 
Title VI of the Association Agreement. Such measures include the need to study the European 
experience, best practices of the EU member states, analyze the EU law and the Ukrainian legislative 
framework in order to develop concepts for the functioning of the anti-fraud coordination service in 
Ukraine and systematic protection of the financial interests of the European Union in Ukraine. The 
developed proposals to the relevant legislative and regulatory acts will be submitted to the Interagency 
Coordination Council for Counteracting Violations Affecting the Financial Interests of Ukraine and the 
EU.
On August 31, 2023, the SAS, as the NCP, initiated the convening of the Interagency Coordination 
Council on Counteracting Violations Affecting the Financial Interests of Ukraine and the EU (in 
accordance with the provisions of the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1110 of 
October 25, 2017 "On the Introduction of a National Mechanism for Coordinating the Interaction of Public 
Authorities to Protect the Financial Interests of Ukraine and the European Union"), which decided to 
draft a procedure for implementing the mechanism of interagency cooperation with the State Audit 
Service. The legislative amendments should meet the objectives of implementing Directive (EU) 
2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 5, 2017 on the fight against fraud 
against the financial interests of the Union by criminal means (hereinafter referred to as Directive 1371) 
and Regulation (EU) No. 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of September 11, 
2013 No. 883/2013 on investigations carried out by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and 
repealing Regulation (EC) No. 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council 
Regulation (Euratom) No. 1074/1999.