5. Association of NGOs of Kostanai oblast, Kostanai  

Internal Capacity Building 

In April, Dmitry Dey, the Director of Kostanai CSSC, met with representatives from ICMA 

(Almaty) to form a coordination council for community, economic and social development in the 

city of Kostanai. The Coordination Council and its regulations were presented to its potential 

members and state municipal representatives.  

On April 24 26, Dmitry Day participated in the Conference on poverty reduction and a seminar 

entitled  Poverty Issues in the Conception of Human Development  initiated by the Academy of 

State Service under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The seminar was conducted 

under the Poverty Reduction Project of UNDP and the Central Asian Institute for Development. 

On April 16, for the national campaign Students for Better Service in Universities, the CSSC 

organized the first student auditions under financial support of USAID, the Eurasia Foundation 

and the US National Democracy Institute (NDI). Representatives of leading local universities, 

state bodies and NGOs participated in the auditions. 

A meeting with Alan Oliver, a representative of NDI, was held in the CSSC conference hall. 

Members of local NGOs, community stakeholders, Maslikhat deputies, and the regional 

Democracy Support Center took part in the event. The meeting participants discussed housing 

reforms taking place in Kazakhstan. 

On April 1 10, the public fund Business and Development, a member of the Association of 

NGOs, held Training of Trainers supported by HIVOS for the program Start and Develop Your 

Business designed by International Organization for Labor. The Association's staff   Anna 

Ivoilova and Nurlan Izimov participated in the seminar. 

On May 15, the Center contributed to the meeting initiated by the Association of Business 

Women to discuss family and women's issues with managers of related municipal committees. 

A meeting with Kostanai NGOs and the Oblast Department of Information and Public Accord 

was held on May 29 to consider creating a common information space. The organization plans to 

conduct a number of roundtables to design an informational program to be disseminated among 

NGOs and their constituencies. 

Dmitry Dey is involved in the design and promotion of the draft law  On State Social 

Procurement.   

CSSC Program Coordinators Almat Kaibzhanov and Irina Ortner participated in an M&E seminar 

conducted by Process Consulting (Moscow) and financially supported by the Eurasia Foundation. 

The donor agency jointly with Counterpart selected projects to be assessed by the evaluation 

group during summer practicum.  

Irina Ortner, Nina Shaburova, Lyudmila Limareva participated in TOT (May 13 17) to serve as 

trainers in the CSSC and to be actively involved in the Counterpart's training program. 

On June 3 4, the CSSC's senior managers and accountants took part in the seminar entitled  NGO 

Tax Collection  conducted by the public fund Tax Environment Development with financial 

support from Soros Kazakhstan Fund.  

Community Outreach  

The May Grant Committee approved community project proposal  Creation of Sewing & 

Shoemaking Shop to reduce unemployment and improve living conditions of vulnerable people in 

Borovskoi village .  

CSSC conducted PCA in the communities of house stakeholders, Kazakh repatriates, and Public 

Fund  Nadezhda . The appraisal in repatriates' community revealed key issues concerning 

unemployment and absence of Kazakh school. After problems analysis, 60 community members 

were mobilized to form a public organization  Oralman , that would organize their efforts and 

protect the community's interests. Initiative group started designing project proposals according 

to community action grant (CAG) program. 

CSSC set a close cooperation with local state bodies to form Coordination Council on economic 

& social development in community of Qostanai. The meeting of Qostanai NGOs and Oblast 

Department of Information & Public Accord was held on May 29

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. The issues of cooperation in 

the development of common information space were considered during the meeting.  

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