30th anniversary of Kazakhstan's Independence: results of the Ministry's work
An important event in 2021 was the jubilee X Civil Forum of Kazakhstan, which proved the importance of the dialogue between the government and society and was timed to the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan's Independence. The Forum summed up the main results of the interaction between the state and civil society over the years of Independence and outlined the prospects for its further development. More than 1,000 suggestions and recommendations were received from representatives of NGOs, the media, business and the civil sector in general. For the first time, the Forum was attended by representatives of international organizations: the UN, OSCE, USAID, UNICEF and others.
The Ministry paid special attention to the ideological content of the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan's Independence. For each month of the outgoing year, a thematic block was determined, which revealed the main facets of the country's sovereignty. So, since the beginning of the year, more than 13 thousand multi-format events have been held, comprehensively reflecting the large-scale changes in all spheres of the country's life. A special website operated throughout the year 30jyl.kz where, at the end of each week, the video "Diary of Independence" was broadcast, which included key events. These video digests were posted on the main republican TV channels, as well as on social media sites.
In general, the systematic and comprehensive work of the Ministry in 2021 was focused on the implementation of state policy in the supervised areas: information and media activities, access to information, interaction with the non-governmental sector, regulation of religious activities, development of interethnic relations, youth and family policy, as well as coordination of the "Rukhani Zhangyru" program.
In 2021, for the first time, the Ministry, after a procedure of public discussion with representatives of the public, the media and coordination with all interested authorities, adopted a regulation for the protection of the rights of journalists in violation of their rights.
New rules for the accreditation of journalists, rules for the formation and placement of social advertising on domestic TV channels to promote a healthy lifestyle have been created and have begun to operate.
The Ministry has concluded 7 memoranda for the training of industry journalists who will cover issues of medical (with KazNMU named after S.D. Asfendiyarov, ENU named after L.N.Gumilev), religious (with ENU named after L.N.Gumilev), environmental (with KazNU named after Al-Farabi), IT (with IITU), agrarian (with M. Kozybayev NKU), legal (with KazGUU named after M.S. Narikbayev) and financial and economic spheres (with UIB named after K. Sagadiyeva). More than 4,000 specialists have passed the basics of industry journalism, namely on the specifics of information coverage of issues in the medical, environmental, religious and IT spheres.
On the STOPFAKE website.KZ in 2021, more than 900 fakes were refuted, in general, in a year and a half since the creation of the resource, almost 2,000 fakes were refuted. Currently, the project's content has been viewed more than seven million times on various platforms.
The 100th anniversary of one of the symbols of the information space of Kazakhstan "Kazakh radiosy" has passed. Already now, in order to ensure the information security of the country, the broadcasting network "Kazakh Radiosy" has additionally covered 35 settlements of border territories with a population of more than 40 thousand people. Work is underway to include 400 villages in the border territories of Turkestan, Zhambyl and East Kazakhstan regions, where more than 430 thousand people live.
For the first time in the history of the country, in 2021, by order of the Ministry, a large-scale project was launched to translate the world's popular children's channels with animation into Kazakh. Thus, an agreement was signed on the translation into Kazakh of the content of TIJI and Nickelodeon TV channels, which are in high demand among children.
On behalf of the President, the first stage of the active phase of the production of domestic television series and historical documentaries began and was implemented in 2021. Already this year, the share of production of historical serial products has been increased by 30%.
On the air of the country's largest TV channels, series about Akhmet Baitursynov, Kanysh Satpayev, Zhangir Khan, Rosa Baglanova and others are shown, which found a great positive feedback from the audience.
Work has begun on reformatting El Arna into a cultural and educational channel, and the Qazaq TV channel is being rebranded, which broadcasts in more than 100 countries around the world.
For the first time, an animation school for children with special needs was launched, for which masters from Kazakhstan, as well as from Japan and South Korea conducted professional training.
Under the banner of the 30th anniversary of Independence, national awards in the field of media "Tumar" and "Urker", as well as the International Media Week "Astana Media Week" were held, which have already established themselves as landmark and traditional annual events expected by the journalistic community.
An important part of the systemic measures has been implemented in working with the non-governmental sector.
Thus, amendments were adopted to the Law "On Public Councils", which significantly expanded and strengthened the powers of this institution.
The ranks of public councils have been replenished with another 13 in the quasi-public sector entities, thereby increasing the number of citizens involved in the process of state governance to 3 thousand people.
The Majilis is considering a draft law on charity and volunteer activities, which is aimed at developing incentives for these areas. A system of implementation of graded grants at the legislative level has been developed.
A draft law "On Public control" has been submitted to the Majilis, which has passed all stages of discussion with representatives of the public.
The process of developing the draft Concept of the draft law "On Non-profit Organizations" has begun, which will combine the current laws "On non-profit organizations" and "On public Associations".
Amendments have been made to the rules for granting grants to NGOs. For the first time, they are now being discussed publicly, taking into account the needs of the population.
In 2021, the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives implemented 51 grant projects commissioned by the Ministry of Information and Social Development. All these projects were implemented in 17 regions of Kazakhstan with direct coverage of 3 million people.
At the initiative of the Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, a nationwide project "Marathon of Good Deeds" was implemented with the participation of 1,200 NGOs and volunteer organizations, more than 300 educational organizations, 360 collectives and trade unions. The total amount sent by collectives and commercial organizations to charity amounted to more than 6.2 billion tenge.
More than 800 public activists took courses at the NGO Academy.
The training in 2021 took place with the participation of well-known experts and business coaches from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Germany. Thanks to the work carried out, 42 trainers in the civil sector were trained in 2021 within the framework of 34 trainings, the competencies of 811 NGO representatives were increased within 42 training trainings, the NGO Academy mobile application was developed.
On behalf of the Head of State, important measures have been implemented in the field of youth and family policy.
Thus, the implementation of the national project "Ulttyk Rukhani zhangyru" has begun, which consists of three directions, seven tasks, 21 indicators and 66 large-scale events.
For the first time, the Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev presented grants to the winners of "Tauelsizdik urpaktary" in order to support talented youth in the nominations "Science", "Culture", "Information Technology", "Business" and "Media".
Events have been held to involve young people in useful public affairs. Only on the International Youth Day, August 12, more than 200 online events were implemented across the country, covering more than 800 thousand young people, aimed at supporting young people and their involvement in the public life of the state. Thus, an important part of the events of the International Youth Day was the organization of job fairs in order to promote the employment of graduates of universities and colleges, young people of the NEET category, etc.
In addition, this year the Republican Youth Forum "Tauelsizdik urpaktary" was held, during which progressive youth sent a cryptocapsule of time with a message to the future generation of Kazakhstan in 2041. As well as the Republican Forum of Young Scientists "Smart Generation", which was attended by more than 200 young scientists from different branches of science.
At the same time, the state youth award "Daryn" was awarded to 20 young talents, the International Youth Summit of Youth Leaders and Activists of Turkic–speaking countries "Turkistan - Turki aleminin besigi" was held.
New approaches have been introduced to conduct the family values contest "Mereyli Otbasy", according to which 17 best families from each region will now be determined annually.
The recognition of the implemented state policy in the field of religion was that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom noted positive changes and initiatives of the Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to improve the situation in the field of religious freedoms.
At the same time, taking into account the democratic processes in the world also to simplify the existing norms in the religious sphere, some "point" changes have been made to the legislation.
A meeting of the XIX Secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions was held.
The meeting considered the issues of preparation for the VII Congress and its significance in the conditions of post-pandemic development, as well as the format of its holding.
The first Kazakh comic aimed at preventing religious extremism and terrorism has been developed in order to convey the message of the fight against extremism to the younger generation.
In 2021, over 181 thousand destructive materials were deleted and 324 blocked, more than 132 thousand works on religious education were published through the media and social networks.
Thanks to the explanatory and rehabilitation measures taken, 96% (182 out of 189) of women returned from terrorist activity zones abandoned radical religious views, and some of them completely switched to a secular lifestyle.
The implementation of systemic measures in the field of the development of interethnic relations and dasporal policy has continued.
At the initiative of the Ministry, a two-year master's degree in the specialty "Ethnopolitology" was opened at the L.N. Gumilev ENU for the first time in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
15 methodological manuals have been developed on topical issues of interethnic relations and 23 training seminars have been held covering more than 3 thousand people from state and public structures.
Republican lectures have been organized in 4 regions to promote the Kazakh model of national unity and harmony with coverage of more than 2 thousand people.
An international scientific and practical conference "Interethnic harmony at the present stage: experience and challenges for the future" was held with the participation of experts from Israel, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine and a number of other countries.
On the basis of the Institute of Applied Ethnopolitical Studies, a unified system of analytical work has been built, in-depth field studies of the situation in all regions have been organized.
In 10 regions of Kazakhstan, employees of the MISD of the Republic of Kazakhstan made monitoring visits to study the situation and develop concrete proposals for the development of interethnic relations.
At the initiative of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with representatives of ethnic and cultural associations of the APK, a 2-volume book "Kazakhstan khalkynyn yertegileri" was published in the state language.
The book includes 114 folk tales of 25 major ethnic groups of Kazakhstan.
The collection of fairy tales of the people of Kazakhstan is published for the first time in the Kazakh language as a literary heritage of different ethnic groups of Kazakhstan.
As part of the diaspora policy, a Small Kazakh Kurultai was held in Turkey with the participation of over 100 delegates from European countries, the 4th meeting of the responsible Ministers for Diaspora Affairs of the Turkic Council with the participation of representatives of 5 countries, the Association of Kazakh-language Media Abroad was established, which included 88 mass media.
780 lessons of the state language were held in 12 countries of the world, covering more than 1,300 compatriots abroad.