Infrastructure sits at the centre of Ukraine’s defining challenges: sustaining essential services under attack, restoring connectivity for trade and logistics, strengthening resilience to future shocks, and supporting the long-term trajectory towards deeper European integration. In wartime, infrastructure is also a strategic asset for sovereignty and national defence. Even as the country endures the human, economic and institutional pressures generated by Russia’s full-scale invasion, it continues to advance essential reforms to strengthen its infrastructure governance and financing architecture and build the foundations for a resilient, modern and EU‑aligned economy.
This Infrastructure Policy Review of Ukraine supports these efforts. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Ukraine’s infrastructure governance and investment frameworks, examining how policies, institutions and financing mechanisms can contribute to a more selective, better prepared and implementable portfolio of infrastructure projects.
Developed as part of the OECD-Ukraine Country Programme, the Review examines the entire lifecycle of infrastructure delivery – from needs identification and strategic planning, to project preparation, appraisal, procurement, financing, contract management and asset stewardship. It also assesses the broader enabling environment for public and private investment, including fiscal sustainability, integrity safeguards, corporate governance of state‑owned enterprises, financial sector capacity, sustainability requirements and reconstruction‑related risks. Throughout, the Review identifies practical reforms that can enhance readiness, delivery discipline and medium-term resilience.
The Review benchmarks Ukraine’s progress against OECD standards and international practice, identifying areas where reforms have accelerated and where further improvements are needed to convert strategic priorities into real, timely and durable infrastructure outcomes. As the first OECD Infrastructure Policy Review, it draws upon the OECD High-Level Approach to Enhance and Better Integrate OECD Work on Infrastructure, the OECD Recommendation on Infrastructure Governance, the OECD Recommendation on the Principles for Public Governance of Public-Private Partnerships, and the OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure, reflecting an integrated OECD perspective across the infrastructure governance and investment and financing dimensions. The OECD Secretariat collected primary data, information and stakeholder inputs through questionnaires and exchanges with government officials and stakeholders from the international donor community as well as through online fact-finding interviews and desk research.
The OECD commends Ukraine’s commitment to strengthening its infrastructure system under unprecedented circumstances. The findings and recommendations in this Review aim to help the Government of Ukraine deepen institutional reforms, reinforce transparency and discipline across the infrastructure lifecycle, and create the conditions necessary to mobilise private finance to support reconstruction efficiently and credibly.