Factsheet on the action plan to implement President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s election programme

Factsheet on the action plan to implement President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s election programme

 

Overview

Following the re-election of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on November 20, the Head of State signed on November 26 a Decree No.2 approving the Action Plan for the implementation of his election program “Fair Kazakhstan - For All and For Everyone. Now and Forever”.

The action plan covers three areas – Just State, Just Economy and Just Society. Its objective is to ensure the effective implementation of reforms aimed at further modernisation of Kazakhstan's society and State. Most of the measures will be implemented by 2023-2024.

The selection of measures outlined below form part of large-scale reforms and constitutional amendments that have been implemented in Kazakhstan since the start of this year and will continue for the duration of Tokayev’s presidency.  

 

Just State

1. Political modernisation (including strengthening the work of new institutions for the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, such as the Constitutional Court, the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights by March 2024, parliamentary and maslikhat (local representative body) elections based on the new electoral system by June 2023, favourable conditions for the development of inter-party dialogue, ensuring healthy political competition, formation of a mature, responsible electoral culture) by March 2023.
2. An efficient state apparatus (including improvement of the efficiency of the civil service system, and creation of a digital infrastructure for engagement of the state with citizens and businesses).
3. Objective and independent court (including expanding the categories of cases considered with the participation of jurors, applying punishments alternative to imprisonment, equal status of judges, and reform of the appeal system).
4. Protection of the rights of citizens (including measures to prevent torture and other illegal methods of investigation, creation of a professional service-oriented model of the Kazakh police, revision of the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes to increase the protection of the rights of citizens and ensure their safety, further measures to combat corruption, and increased responsibility for family and household violence).
5. Security of the State (including pursuing a balanced foreign policy, building a tech-based and mobile army).

Just Economy

1. Fair and predictable economic policy (reducing the shadow economy to OECD standard, decreasing the share of the state in the economy to 14% by 2025, ongoing demonopolisation of the economy, protection of competition, adoption of a new Tax Code aimed at ensuring fair, transparent, predictable taxation, increasing the number of people employed in small and medium-sized businesses up to 4.7 million people).
2. Competitive agriculture and sustainable rural areas (including doubling the total area of irrigated agricultural land).
3. Open transport corridors and logistics (including transformation of the Trans-Caspian international route to diversify transit and export opportunities, creation of a modern container hub on the Caspian Sea).
4. Reliable energy (including modernisation of energy infrastructure, diversification of corridors for the export of hydrocarbon raw materials)
5. Strong regions and developed infrastructure (including new housing, provision of water supply services for all villages, repairment of housing and road systems).
6. Progressive applied sciences (including increased funding for applied science, and development of specialised engineering and science centres).
7. New digital opportunities (including access to broadband Internet in all cities and regional centres, creation of new jobs in the IT sector, and development of Kazakhstan into a digital regional hub).

Just Society

1. Affordable and quality education (including modernisation of schools, free school meals for socially vulnerable groups, introduction of 1.5 million student places, creation of 50 children's health camps, and doubling student scholarships).
2. Modern healthcare (improvement of the social health insurance system, creation of new modern medical centres, strengthening the protection and support of medical workers, and promotion of a healthy lifestyle).
3. Social security (launch in 2024 of the National Fund for Children to be used for education and housing when children turn 18, support for the temporarily unemployed, including by increasing social benefits, measures to support persons with special needs, and increase in the period of social payments for childcare).
4. Shared values and culture (including continued strengthening of interethnic unity and interfaith harmony).
5. New generation (including youth quota in public councils, and additional grant assistance to young entrepreneurs with special needs).
6. Ecology (including reducing the emission of harmful substances by 20%, increasing forest area to 14.5 million hectares, and infrastructure for electric vehicles by 2029 in all major cities).