Work with the Government of Ukraine

National Strategic Planning

Ukraine’s recovery and sustainable development require a clear and coordinated national vision, with strategic decisions aligned across all levels of government, realistic in scope, transparent in process, and backed by evidence. The development and implementation of the National Strategic Planning System is a critical step in building this foundation—ensuring that national policies, sectoral strategies and operational plans work together toward national long-term goals.

The RFA Project is providing targeted support to the Government of Ukraine (GoU) in designing a strategic planning framework and implementing several sets of planning documents that link national priorities with investment programming.

The framework aims to set the principles, architecture and processes of national strategic planning—defining clear responsibilities, approaches to planning, monitoring mechanisms, and accountability frameworks. This includes building interoperability between strategic documents, introducing clear and unified rules and procedures for problem analysis, goals setting and performance indicators measurement, tasks and activities planning, monitoring and evaluation—ensuring that data-driven decision-making becomes the new gold standard across the GoU.

RFA builds capacity of GoU to ensure their readiness to the strategic planning framework implementation by working directly with ministries and agencies to develop sectoral and sub-sectoral strategies, aligned with national priorities and EU accession requirements, and structured action plans that translate strategic objectives into implementable activities with clear timelines and responsibilities. 

To enable the GoU to plan and properly manage the strategic planning framework, RFA developed an IT system called ProjectUA.

State Regional Strategic Planning 

Ukraine’s recovery requires a coherent system of strategic, investment, and budgetary planning aligned with EU directives and decentralization reform. Currently, various laws and by-laws regulate this planning. However, these frameworks are often fragmented, poorly aligned, and not fully reflective of EU directives, goals of decentralization reform, or best practices of a transparent, data-driven and participatory planning process. As a result, the regional and local levels frequently see a disconnect. For example, one project is planned behind closed doors, another is funded and yet another is implemented.

Ukraine committed to aligning national and local planning systems with the principles of the EU cohesion policy aiming to address these issues, as well as reduce economic, social and territorial disparities by proper management of public investments. This means that building an effective and predictable investment management system in Ukraine must rely on comprehensive, EU-based, gender-responsive and people-oriented planning approaches that ensure coherence across all levels of government.

RFA supports the GoU in establishing EU compatible and decentralized regional strategic and recovery planning framework by:

– integrating strategic planning logic into the regional planning legal framework; 

-aligning sectoral plans in the multi-level governance system, e.g. from sectoral policies of the GoU to cross-sectoral policies of regions and municipalities; 

– aligning investments with the real needs of citizens, based on verified quantitative and qualitative data; and 

– integrating requirements of Chapter 22 of EU Acquis in Ukraine into regional policy, ensuring consistency between PIM and NSPS reforms. 

ProjectUA—Ukraine’s Digital Tool for Managing its Plans and Priorities 

Ukraine recovery is a complex and long-term process. It requires well-coordinated efforts from both the government and international partners—particularly when it comes to making strategic decisions that are aligned, realistic and transparent.

Today, when planning more effectively, setting better priorities, and investing where it truly matters is crucial, RFA continues to support the GoU in designing and implementing ProjectUA. This IT system digitizes strategic planning processes within the GoU, which helps unite strategies into a single policy agenda. It also enables strategic planning, real-time tracking of implementation progress, performance evaluation by policy area, generation of analytical reports, and evidence-based decision-making based on accurate, verified data.

As of January 2026, 50+ Ministries and Agencies, as well as 25 Regional Administrations are active users of ProjectUA. Among them are the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, the National Agency on Civil Service, and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. More than 900 civil servants are currently using the system.

To strengthen transparency, accountability and effectiveness of strategic planning, ProjectUA enables digital monitoring of Ukraine’s key strategic documents — including the Barrier-Free Strategy and the Ukraine Facility Plan. Through integration with other national planning and reporting platforms, such as the Reform Matrix monitoring system developed by the Ministry of Finance, this system ensures coherence and reduces duplication.

ProjectUA serves as a single database for all Ukraine strategic planning documents and strengthens their coordination, helping to ensure that Ukraine’s recovery is not only ambitious, but also transparent, accountable and results-driven.

Learn more about the challenges ProjectUA addresses and how the system works by watching the video on the RFA YouTube channel.