1. Due to gender stereotypes and roles, women are more affected by corruption
2. Natalia and other mums in Nyzhni Sirohozy were concerned about the food their children ate at school
3. The school’s food suppliers’ inflated invoices came as a big surprise to them
4. The parents’ collective efforts led to official investigations and the dismissal of a director
5. Natalia continued to fight corruption, scrutinizing the local officials’ e-declarations
6. and checking conflicts of interest in their work, with UNDP support
7. UNDP’s study demonstrates that Natalia’s case is not an isolated one in Ukraine
8. 58% of women see corruption as one of the top three problems in the country
9. Corruption exacerbates the already unequal power relations between men and women,
10. limiting women’s access to decision-making
[12% of MPs, 16% of ministers, 14% of heads of amalgamated communities]
[prevailing among vulnerable groups; requiring specific reproductive health services; more likely to face gender-based forms of corruption (sexual extortion); more dependent on family-related public services]
