Nashi Groshi

Nashi Groshi (in English: Our Money) is a digital media outlet founded in August 2010 as a reaction to the mounting pressure from journalists, public figures, and some politicians to change the tender and state procurement legislation in Ukraine. These changes allowed citizens broader access to behind-the-scenes budget allocation, and to navigating these waters.

However, the amount of information in the Public Procurement Bulletin turned out to be so large, that no newsroom or public association could keep track of everything that was worthy of the public's attention.

Therefore, Nashi Groshi does not claim to analyse Ukrainian public tenders completely. Instead, it aspires to publish news and articles that help the public and other journalists not to miss the actions taken by the government and by politicians on how budget money is distributed.

The organisation also aims to educate and remind the public that no matter which state body it may be or what procurement is conducts, it always spends not its own money, but as the editors put it, "our money" (i.e. nashi groshi).

The platform is supported by journalists from various publications in Ukraine. It was launched with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation and is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).

Nashi Groshi also makes available the Price Monitor, a service providing information about food procurement prices via a chatbox. The USAID Programme supports the project, which helps to build a competitive economy in Ukraine.

Since the Russian invasion on Ukraine in February 2022, Nashi Groshi switched from reporting corruption news to covering everything related to the war.