UKRAINE RECONSTRUCTION URC.

Ukraine's Public Administration Reform on the Path to the EU: Challenges, Opportunities, and Civil Sector Partnership.

Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 — Rome

Event overview

The annual Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 (URC2025) has concluded, which this year took place in Rome.
The event brought together political leaders, international partners, business representatives, and civil society.

The focus was not only on economic aspects but also on the human dimension and the integration of security and military components into Ukraine’s recovery strategy.

Key conference topics

Business dimension
  • Investment activation.
  • Production localization.
  • Development of public-private partnership.
Human dimension
  • Reintegration of internally displaced persons (IDPs).
  • Engagement of the Ukrainian diaspora.
  • Building human capital.
Military component
  • Integration of the defense sector into the recovery process.
  • Development of dual-use technologies.
  • Cooperation between the state, business, and science in the security sphere.

Main focuses of the discussions

  • New approaches to funding reconstruction projects.
  • Strengthening state institutions.
  • Development of digital transformation.
  • Strengthening the role of municipalities in recovery.

Berlin URC 2024 — Civil Society Side Event

Organizers and partners

Professional Government Association of Ukraine (PGA) in partnership with:

  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States,
  • RISE,
  • IAA,
  • Transparency International,
  • and other leading civil society organizations,

with the support of foundations, including Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Ukraine.

About the event

PGA co-founded the Berlin URC Civil Society Side Event — a long-awaited event dedicated to public administration reform (PAR) in Ukraine.

At the “Public Administration Reform” panel, key speakers from the PAR Agenda spoke, discussing:

  • the capacity of the system following the optimization of 169,000 civil servants;
  • new approaches to civil service efficiency;
  • challenges of integrating EU standards and ways to overcome them.

Discussion theme.

  • Transition of Ukrainian public administration to European standards.
  • Optimization of the civil service structure.
  • Strengthening professionalism and transparency.
  • Cooperation between public organizations and the state in implementing reforms.