
This year in the period from January 10 to February 7 applications were accepted. 358 applications were received for participation in the competition for the provision of state grants for NGOs, of which 281 applications from 155 NGOs were sent to the independent expert commission for consideration.
In turn, the Operator in the field of grant financing (NPJSC "Center for Support of Civil Initiatives") in 2021 in order to improve the efficiency of activities and the quality of the composition of experts, a register of experts was formed taking into account the new requirements of the Rules for granting grants from among the deputies of the Mazhilis, public figures and academic workers. The number of experts in the roster of experts has been increased from 15 to 62 people. The share of experts who speak the state and Russian languages was more than 90%.
The qualifications of all experts who are members of the expert commission meet the criteria of the current legislation in the field of grant financing.
So, within the framework of the competition for the provision of state grants, on January 24 this year, the selection of experts of the competition commission was carried out by random selection from the register of experts in 15 areas. The selection of experts was broadcast live on the Operator's social networks. Based on the results of a random selection of 62 experts from the registry, 25 experts were selected for the main staff.
The composition of the expert commission from among the main and reserve experts is published on the Center's website https://cisc .kz/sostav-ekspertnoj-komissii-20542.html.
The meetings of the expert commission were held live on the Operator's social networks.
At the same time, since 2021, the practice of posting all documents on grant projects on the official website of the Operator has been introduced (competitive applications of winners, a detailed project implementation plan, a detailed project budget and all reports within the project). The deadlines for reviewing grantees' reports have been reduced from 10 to 7 working days.
The practice of public presentations of grantees' projects live has been introduced 3 times during the project implementation period (at the start, in the middle and following the results of implementation).