The meeting of the Coordinating Council for Interaction with NGOs took place in Nur Sultan

A regular meeting of the Coordinating Council for Interaction with NGOs chaired by the Minister of Information and Public Development of Kazakhstan Dauren Abayev was held in Nur Sultan.

Opening the meeting of the Council, the Head of the Ministry noted that the Ministry is working on the implementation of the instructions of the Head of State, voiced in the Address to the people of Kazakhstan, in this regard the agenda of the meeting of the Council was built on the current trends of the Address.

In his Address, Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev paid great attention to the development of social policy and the civil sector. In this regard, joint work of state bodies and representatives of the public in improving the mechanisms of interaction between state bodies and the population becomes necessary, Dauren Abayev said.

The participants of the Council meeting discussed the implementation of the Roadmap for the Development of the Penal Correction System for 2019 - 2023 Years and the Roadmap for Strengthening Public Control over Police Activities, Introducing Civil Control Tools and Transferring State Functions to the Non-Profit Sector.

The Ministry of Information and Public Development also reports that the draft Concept for the Development of Civil Society until 2025 provides for measures to introduce a system of civil control with the broad involvement of NGOs, public councils, the expert community, civil activists, the transition to the active phase of the process of transfer of state functions to the non-governmental sector, etc.

The main speakers were the President of the Public Fund for the Development of Parliamentarians in Kazakhstan, the Director of the Public Fund Desenta, representatives of the Anti-Corruption Agency of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of National Economy and Health.

The meeting of the Council was attended by heads of major NGOs and representatives of central state bodies. The regions were also connected to the meeting of the Council by videoconference.

Following the meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, recommendations for further improvement of cooperation between NGOs and state bodies were developed.