A year ago, Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine is ready to reduce the number of ministries. In the second half of 2024, something changed, and ideas about creating new. In the end, they stopped at the idea of \u200b\u200brenaming Minreintegration in the Ministry of Union.

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We do not know what was guided by Vladimir Zelensky when, together with Andrei Ermak, he decided to create the Ministry of National Unity and transfer there from Naftogaz Alexei Cherneshov. Should the Ministry of University be a springboard for the jumping of Chernyschov in the chair of the prime minister? Or, probably, Zelensky was so upset by the focus groups, who showed an extremely negative attitude towards him as a candidate in future elections from those who left Ukraine, that he decided to entrust something to do something with this new minister? We don't know that. But we know what the consequences of such a decision can be.

The state forgot about the occupied territories?

The majority focused on the question of who and whom should unite. A less obvious, but much more important question: reintegration and IDP problems are no longer priority for the state? This can damage state policy both at the domestic and international levels.

Since 2016, the main task of Minreintegration was work on the humanitarian challenges of war - the development and implementation of state policy in relation to temporarily occupied territories and assistance to victims of Russian aggression. Of course, criticism regularly sounded to the ministry - you can better and more. But we will be frank: this sounds like each authority. The key - the state kept the priority and focus for the reintegration of temporarily occupied territories and work with forced immigrants so much that it had a separate ministry for this with unique experience with previously invisible challenges.

Now the functions of Minreintegration were transmitted by the Ministry of Development of Gromad, which is working on the development of infrastructure and the actual community. He was also assigned to:.

registration and issuance of certificates of registration of internally displaced persons;

implementation of the law on social and legal protection of persons deprived of personal freedom due to armed aggression;

the formation of the lists of territories on which combat operations are conducted or conducted or which are temporarily occupied.

But will Mingromad, who have many of his tasks and challenges, can perform the functions of Minreintegration more efficiently than the liquidated ministry did it?

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And what from the Ministry of Medicine?

What will the new ministry do? The government handed him the development of ties with foreign Ukrainians, counteracting propaganda among the diaspora, the formation of a positive image of Ukraine and, of course, the implementation of state policy for national unity. And the Ministry of Union must help the Ukrainians return to their homeland, creating favorable conditions for reintegration.

To work on the unification of Ukrainians abroad, to help the diaspora to maintain ties with their homeland - the idea is generally good. But was it necessary to do this at the cost of the ministry?

The elimination of Minreintegration and the creation on its basis of the new ministry means the actual breakdown of the existing system that ensured the constancy of the policy. Of course, reorganization occurs gradually and does not lead to a complete termination of work. However, the liquidation of directors who ensure the continuation of policy and the introduction of reforms significantly complicates the process. Their integration into new structures requires time, resources and efforts at least to establish new processes in groups. Therefore, instead of solving complex problems, even more managerial challenges appear.

The creation of new ministries in response to new challenges is a completely normal practice around the world. However, Ukraine is regularly guided by another logic - to create an institution for a particular person. Almost the most striking example is the unification of the mininfrastructure from the Ministry of Defense of the Command and territories in the Ministry of Media. And then - the process of "

Is it really necessary for the effective interaction with Ukrainians abroad.? After all, there are structures with similar, if not identical functions. Embassies, consulates, management of foreign Ukrainians as part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which are responsible for communication and coordination of relations with the diaspora and Ukrainians abroad, since this is their direct function in the framework of the foreign policy activities of the state.

There is also a National Commission on Foreign Ukrainians under the Cabinet of Ministers, responsible for granting the status of foreign Ukrainians who have laws similar to citizens and may simplify citizenship.

In fact, it would be more effective to scale the work of existing institutions, and not create a new one that will duplicate these functions. And the funds that would go to create a new ministry could be used, for example, to finance the Foreign Ministry. Because where a certain centralization and consolidation from the state would be needed, it is not.

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Is a separate ministry necessary so that the Ukrainians unite and return from abroad? To find the answer to this question, you need to understand under what conditions people will be ready to return. According to the KMIS survey in the spring of 2024, about half of the refugees will return only if complete security, restoration of housing and the end of the war.

What do these data mean in practice? People will not return immediately. And the Ministry cannot create the illusion that the state actually cannot give and guarantee - a quick restoration and a long world.

If not the ministry, then?

It would be a realistic approach to create conditions for maintaining communication with citizens abroad. For example, to launch educational programs that will allow Ukrainians abroad to receive Ukrainian education remotely. They could be implemented in cooperation with leading universities in the country.

Interaction with the diaspora deserves special attention, because against the backdrop of calls to return, there is still no concept of interaction with it. An attempt to start it can be considered the presidential bill on multiple citizenship. But the presence of a passport will not help if there is no integral state policy to attract these citizens. The authorities must take responsibility and coordinate the process so that this does not just remain a declaration of good intentions.

Demographic challenges cannot be solved only by the creation of the ministry. The return of citizens, as well as the consolidation of the nation, depends not on the number of departments, but on real changes that increase the quality of life: safety, access to housing, economic prospects. The state should show its citizens that he needs them regardless of where they live - abroad or in the occupied Donbass. That is, these are the consequences of many other successful politicians in different areas of life. In particular, on the reintegration of the occupied territories, which was engaged in the liquidated ministry.

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As practice testifies, the state needs not new structures, but in a clear strategy for working with IDPs and high -quality system policy for diasporas around the world. The new ministry can become the basis for the development of both the first and second. Or to become another proof that it is impossible to create a new department without clear tasks and politics, and even for a particular person.

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