The Center for Support of Civil Initiatives summed up the preliminary results of 2021

The Center for Support of Civil Initiatives summed up the preliminary results of 2021

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the NJSС “Center for Support of Civil Initiatives" under the chairmanship of Vice-Minister of Information and Social Development Bolat Tlepov. During the meeting, the members of the Board of Directors heard a report on the preliminary results of the Center's activities for 2021.

The agenda of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the NJSС "Center for Support of Civil Initiatives" included a number of issues related to the key areas of the Center's activities. As the Chairman of the Board of the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives, Lima Diaz, noted, the Center received positive feedback on almost every aspect of its work.

"It should be noted that over the past three years, for the first time, the Center completes the year without losses. Such results were achieved even despite the optimization of the staff. Our team has been improving grant financing mechanisms on a daily basis. We received feedback on almost every aspect of the work of the CSCI and our task was to make the procedures as convenient, understandable, fair and open as possible," said Lima Diaz.

During the hearing of the report, special attention was paid to the results of the work carried out in the field of developing non-state grant financing and strengthening international cooperation. According to the Chairman of the Board of the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives, according to the results of the work carried out in this direction during the year, the Center managed to achieve visible results.

 

"In 2021, the Center for the first time began to provide non-governmental grants to NGOs at the expense of extra-budgetary funds. Non-governmental grants totaling 43.1 million tenge were provided with the support of the Social Development Fund "Samruk Kazyna Trust", the Private Fund "Fund for the Development of Socially Significant Initiatives" and the Corporate Fund "Media Damytu Qory". At the same time, a grant project aimed at the development of 30 rural schools in Kazakhstan at the expense of small grants in the amount of 1 million tenge was completed in December. He received a lot of positive feedback from teachers and schoolchildren of the country.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the diversification of sources of financing for social projects, we began to support NGOs in attracting sponsorship from the corporate sector. Thus, 13 million tenge was attracted for social initiatives from Kazakhmys, ERG Eurasian Group and Sberbank SB JSC," Lima Dias said.

In addition, this year the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives has established cooperation with international and foreign organizations of the near and far abroad. So, in 2021, memorandums of cooperation were signed with organizations from Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

The Center's management also held a number of working meetings with such international organizations as the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, the USAID Office in Kazakhstan, the Embassy of Canada in Kazakhstan, the Embassy of Italy in Kazakhstan, the Delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Media Issues, the OSCE Office in Kazakhstan, ABA ROLI Kazakhstan, the Presidential Grants Fund of the Russian Federation. As a result of the meetings, an agreement was reached on joint promotion and support of Kazakhstani NGOs through capacity building, exchange of experience and expert assistance. In addition, the possibility of co-financing the Center's grant projects to enhance the social effect and ensure the sustainability of projects is being considered separately.

"In general, we were able to strengthen the perspective and expand our network of partners, such as representatives of the business sector and international organizations. Therefore, next year we will continue to work on strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation within the framework of joint initiatives, including using already established contacts," she concluded.

At the end of the meeting, the members of the Company's Board of Directors made a number of strategically important decisions, as well as outlined plans for the upcoming 2022.

It should be noted that the meeting of the Board of Directors dedicated to the final results of the Center's work for 2021 is scheduled to be held in January next year.