A meeting of the regional commission on anti-corruption issues took place in Pavlodar
The working meeting of the commission was held online.
The head of the anti-corruption service of Pavlodar region Aidar Tastemirov presented the results of the monitoring of the corruption in Kazakhstan in 2020 organized by the Public Foundation Transparency Kazakhstan. It was survey of the population and entrepreneurs as well as analysis of the complaints on the portal "Open Dialogue".
“The results of public opinion polls show that the share of corruption in the government agencies was 11.3%. Compared with the same period in 2019 this number has decreased by 2.1%. A lot of cases of informal solution of the problems there was in Zhambyl, Atyrau, Almaty, Karaganda, Kyzylorda and West Kazakhstan regions”, Aidar Tastemirov said.
The research showed that corruption was mostly in the public medical institutions, police and land departments, public service centres, public kindergartens and universities. Basically, "informal way" for solution problems was chosen to speed up the process or receive a service which was not officially provided.
“The results of the survey of the entrepreneurs have showed that 97.7% of respondents have repeatedly asked the government agency to solve their problems. The tax service is in great demand among businessmen, 70.2% of entrepreneurs use their services. In second place are public service centres - 63.5%. 8.2% of respondents reported on the corruption in 2020. 60% of them noted that the sources of the corruption were the tax, land and fire departments, district akimats and departments of planning control” , the head of the anti-corruption service stressed.
According to akim of Pavlodar region Abylkair Skakov, the survey results will be taken into account. He also asked the heads of different departments to tell what measures, they had been taken, to reduce the risk of corruption.
“To ensure transparency in the procurement of medicines, medical devices and equipment, the tender commissions include members of the public, non-governmental organizations, representatives of the anti-corruption service and some experts. This principle of the decision-making is observed in the implementation of the projects of public-private partnership. The composition of the commission consists of independent members. In order to avoid inefficient use of the budget funds, in particular, purchase of the goods at high prices and the intermediary factor, the medical facilities are recommended to purchase goods directly from the manufacturers”, the head of the Department of Health Aidar Seitkazinov said.
The head of the Department of Land Relations Ruslan Dautbayev noted that the geoinformational portal had been developed for digitization information of land relations in Pavlodar region. Today people receive 5 types of the public services, which are in great demand in Pavlodar, Ekibastuz and Aksu. In total, about 14000 of public services in the field of land relations have been provided in the region in 2020.
“The task for the department and akims of the cities and areas is to minimize communication between employees and recipients of the services and transfer this process to electronic format”, akim of the region added.
The head of the Department of Employment and Social Programs Almira Disyupova, akim of Ekibastuz city Ardak Kantarbayev and head of Aktogay area Karshyga Arynov reported on the work, they had done, to reduce the risks of corruption. In general, the anti-corruption agency took a favourable view of the work against corruption and transition of akimats to the service model of the public services in Pavlodar region.