Assisting CSSCs to Organize Program Activity Through Consultations, Monitoring Visits and 

Quarterly Meetings 

The Hub Center staff conducted site visits to direct monitoring and consultations of CSSCs' ongoing 

program activities, and meet with members of the Support Centers and community organizations.  

In the framework of organizational development, Nurlan Zhumabekov (Community Outreach 

Coordinator) visited the Aktobe CSSC from April 14 17 to participate in a roundtable with the 

regional NGOs and analyze the local community outreach process. The importance of drawing rural 

areas into the Counterpart's training program was discussed. In the course of consulting the CSSC, the 

Director, Kairat Kunshashev, and Coordinator, Dilyara Temirbayeva, received practical 

recommendations on the further involvement of the communities in the mobilization process and the 

organization of local facilitators' team to PCAP. In the neighboring region of Kostanai, because of its 

high interest in the community outreach program, the Country office and local CSSC analyzed 

community mobilization programs. This research extended the contact database at the Kostanai 

Support Center.   

A quarterly meeting with the CSSCs on June 19 covered the organizational issues of conducting Local 

Grant Committees (LGC), community projects development including proposal and report design, the 

PCA, the community mobilization process, financial sustainability, and long term impacts. In 

addition, Nurlan Zhumabekov, a Community Outreach Coordinator, compiled a questionnaire 

addressed to the Almaty CSSC to examine capacity in problem solving in its community 

organizations. From the subsequent data analysis, the Support Center was able to define an outlook 

concerning its social partnership development in the region.   

CSSC Capacity Building in Evaluation of Community Projects 

For the first time in Kazakhstan, a co assessment of community project  The Installation of an 

Autonomous Heating System  in the Zhas Kanat hostel was conducted on June 3 5 by Raushan 

Amanzhanova (Regional Community Outreach Program Coordinator), Dana Amanova (Country 

Grant Manager), Galym Zhukupbayev (Zhalghas Coordinator), community (hostel) residents, 

members of the production cooperative society and the project managers of Baspana NGO. The joint 

assessment included documentation analysis (project proposal, financial, monitoring and narrative 

reports), examination of stakeholders, evaluation plan design, and design of project goals, indicators, 

and evaluation methods and tools. The co assessment process revealed a number of issues to be 

resolved according to the plan designed by the community.  

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Staff Development and Changes 

The Office Manager, L. Kuchenova, left Counterpart for personal reasons. The management team of 

Counterpart decided to hire Ms. Elena Adkina to fill the Office Manager position. The OD 

Coordinator, V. Akhmetov, got the Regional Health Coordinator position and will be based in 

Almaty. The Counterpart management team also decided to move CO Coordinator, N. Satarov, to the 

OD Coordinator position, and Training Coordinator, C. Akmatova, to the CO Coordinator position. 

The Training Coordinator vacancy has been announced through newspapers, and interviews were 

scheduled for July 2002. 

The Senior Program Officer, A. Nusupov, the Training Coordinator, C. Akmatova, the Manager of the 

Naryn CSSC, E. Karypbay Uulu, and the Contract Trainer, D. Alyaeva, took part in the regional 

training on fundraising held in Almaty on May 13 17. As a result of the training, a draft plan on 

fundraising activities of the Hub Center and CSSCs was developed. 

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