Republican program «Tomiris»

Today, under the auspices of the National Commission on Women’s Affairs and Family and Demographic Policy under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the first training for active representatives of the women’s movement of                    Nur-Sultan and regions within the framework of the informational and educational program «Tomiris».

The program aims to develop the managerial capacity and political culture of women and girls.

«Our main priority is to ensure justice and equality for all Kazakhstanis. The project will support successful girls and women in both urban and rural areas, and create conditions for their involvement in public and political life», - said  Vice-Minister of Information and Social Development A. Danilov, welcoming the participants of the seminar.

One of the objectives of the program is to create a pool of regional experts from each region to provide targeted training for women activists.

More than 40 women and girls will be trained at today’s training. Topic of the training: «Realization of gender rights and freedoms of citizens of Kazakhstan as a condition of positive transformation of society». Experts of the Public Fund «Institute of Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities of Kazakhstan» conduct the training.

«Within the program, a number of activities are planned, including a project to train women leaders. We will select 30 bright women leaders from all regions on a competitive basis and send them to the training program in Nur-Sultan. The training will focus on developing political leadership skills, knowledge and competencies that will help participants to be appointed or elected to leadership positions at different levels. We will soon announce the start of applications for this training program. In the future, we with partners will expand the scope of the program and add new projects and components» - said the director of the Academy of Political Management Daniyar Mukitanov.

The «Tomiris» program will be implemented on a long-term basis. Training and awareness-raising activities will be provided to women and girls from all regions of the country.

Among the topics to be addressed are: gender stereotypes and how to overcome them through mass communications, the formation of gender-sensitive policies, the role of women in economic development and innovation.

The «Tomiris» program is implemented by the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Academy of Political Management of the party «AMANAT» with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and other partners.