More than 200 NGOs have applied to participate in the competition for the provision of state grants

The Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan will provide state grants on 53 topics for NGOs in 2022. Grant projects will cover 12 areas of social and cultural spheres of society, such as the protection of human rights, children, the development of gender equality, education, health, the environment and the promotion of national unity.

As of today, the Civil Initiatives Support Center has completed accepting applications from NGOs to participate in the competition for the provision of state grants.

358 applications were received for participation in the competition for the provision of state grants for NGOs. Applications were accepted from 204 NGOs. In particular, 89 applications from 50 NGOs were submitted in the state language, 269 applications from 154 NGOs were submitted in russian.

"The acceptance of applications was completed on February 7. After that, our employees carried out work on reviewing the submitted applications for compliance with the requirements and conditions provided for in the Grant Plan, including the topic, goals, objectives, deadlines for implementation, territorial coverage, the amount of funds allocated the expected result from the implementation of the project. A check was carried out on the availability of information in the NGO Database," said Lima Diaz, Chairman of the Board of the Civil Initiatives Support Center.

As a result of the work carried out, applications from 77 NGOs were found not to meet the requirements and conditions of the competition.

Thus, 281 applications from 155 NGOs were sent for consideration by the independent competition commission, 65 of which were submitted in the state language.

The results of the competition for the provision of state grants will be announced on March 4, 2022.