Grants to support youth initiatives under the Zhas Project

The Ministry of Information and Social Development together with the Center for Support of Civil Initiatives and public associations announced the start of accepting applications for a competition for the provision of small grants to support youth initiatives under the Zhas Project.

The project is being implemented as part of the Government Action Program for 2022 in a pilot mode in Almaty, Karaganda, Mangystau and Turkestan regions. In order to expand the scope of the project the regions of Zhetysu and Ulytau are additionally included. More than 250 small grants have been allocated to support youth initiatives in all these regions. The amount of each grant is up to 1 million tenge to finance a specific project.

One of the main goals of the Zhas Project is to involve socially-economic life in their localities, productive employment, as well as support business ideas of socially vulnerable youth, especially those living in rural areas.

Young Kazakhstanis aged 18 to 29 can take part in the small grants competition. Special priority in the project is given to young people who have the status of a registered unemployed person; living in low-income families, orphans and persons with disabilities; parents raising a child with a disability; families with many children, as well as mothers of many children, awarded with pendants "Altyn alka" and "Kumis alka".

In order to ensure openness and transparency of competitive procedures in each of these regions, regional commissions will be created, which will include representatives of the public, industry experts, and entrepreneurs. All meetings of the regional commissions for the selection of projects will be broadcast online on social networks. Each project will undergo an examination, each of them will be monitored for the effectiveness of its implementation. In addition, a republican group of public monitoring will be formed.

Applications are accepted on the websites: zhasproject-almobl.kz, zhasproject-karaganda.kz, zhasproject-mangystau.kz, zhasproject-turkestan.kz.

Applications for participation will be accepted until August 10, 2022.

Additional information on issues related to the project can be obtained at the following phone numbers:

1. Almaty and Zhetysu regions: 8 705 214 63 67
2. Turkestan region: 8 705 244 60 27
3. Mangistau region: 8 778 497 90 17

4. Karaganda region: 8 775 764 8747