The progress of the IX Civil Forum was told at a briefing

Today, on November 26, 2020, a briefing was held on the progress of the IX Civil Forum of Kazakhstan "Society and the State: 30 years of partnership and development" Birgemiz ".
The main speakers of the briefing were the Vice Minister of Information and Public Development Bolat Tlepov and the President of the ALE “Civil Alliance of Kazakhstan” Banu Nurgazieva.
They spoke about the progress of the IX Civil Forum of Kazakhstan, the results of the forum, noted the importance of creating such dialogue platforms in the development of a continuous dialogue between society and business.
Bolat Tlepov: “If the previous forums were mainly attended by delegates from the regions, the total number of which did not exceed 700-800 people, then the current forum, thanks to the online format, does not limit the composition and number of participants.
Citizens were able to connect online from any region of the republic and take part in discussion platforms on problematic issues of concern to the public. "
According to the speakers, the rich program of the forum made it possible to cover various problematic issues of civil society, such as: the introduction of social work into the list of priority professions for the needs of the country, the development of professional approaches for NGOs, the development of environmental education, ensuring the transparency of the state order, the involvement of NGOs in monitoring, relations between the state body, NGOs and business, increasing the level of digitalization in the activities of NGOs and others.
In addition, NGOs had the opportunity to take part in the discussion of Russian experts, trainers, futurologists, as well as Kazakhstani bloggers and media people.
Bolat Tlepov, Vice Minister of Information and Public Development, noted in his speech that over 30 years of independence in the country, civil society has reached considerable heights and partly the main contribution to this transformation was made by Civil Forums.
In addition, during a press conference, the speakers stressed that the traditional event uniting public figures of the country was held in a new format this year. For the safety of the participants, the Civic Forum was switched to online mode, and for the convenience of delegates, the rich program was distributed over five days.
"The final resolutions of the forum will be considered within the framework of the final plenary session, which will be held on November 27, 2020," Bolat Tlepov said.
By the way, the Civil Forum of Kazakhstan "Society and the State: 30 Years of Partnership and Development" Birgemiz "is held from November 23-27, 2020.

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The Civil Forum is a traditional platform that has been organized every second year since 2003 with the support of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.