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Kazakhstan

Project: Coalition against Poverty: Oil Revenue under Public Oversight
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Round-table discussions were felt to be an especially useful approach and proved effective in helping participants increase their understanding of transparency and accountability and their ability to affect change. Stakeholders commented that this approach would continue to have value for a wide variety of participatory and learning activities.

Theme: Community activism

Kazakhstan CSR, participation

Project: Coalition against Poverty: Oil Revenue under Public Oversight
Evaluation Date: April 2013
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project achieved its strongest results through producing significant research on regional business, government, and civil society. Anecdotal evidence suggests that project activities were effective in raising awareness among organized civil society in the regions, perhaps in part because of their great need for information and capacity.

Theme: Community activism

Kazakhstan corporations, CSR, research

Project: Opening the Doors of Policy Making in Central Asia and South Caucasus
Evaluation Date: July 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

There was no evidence that the project sought to build bridges with academia or the international private sector. University researchers represent an untapped source of expertise in the target countries, yet this project appears to have done little to improve this situation.

Theme: Community activism

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan collaborate, expertise, leverage

Project: Opening the Doors of Policy Making in Central Asia and South Caucasus
Evaluation Date: July 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The prospects for successful democratic transition in the target countries is more challenging than it ever was in the now-European former Soviet states and Eastern Europe. The lack of domestic financial support will make independent NGOs vulnerable to nationalist criticisms. While it has formed capacity, strengthened institutions, and introduced CSOs into an international network, it is difficult to imagine any of the target NGOs successfully mobilizing substantial international support.

Theme: Community activism

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan finance, research, sustainability

Project: Opening the Doors of Policy Making in Central Asia and South Caucasus
Evaluation Date: July 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The policy research papers produced by fellows gave the training an “on the job” aspect and guaranteed that at least one significant output would be produced as a result of the training. All policy papers were translated so as to be available both in English and Russian and published on the internet and in a bilingual hard-copy volume that was assigned an ISBN number.

Theme: Community activism

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan outputs, research

Project: Opening the Doors of Policy Making in Central Asia and South Caucasus
Evaluation Date: July 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

From the institutional point of view, one of the strongest sustainability aspects is that new think tanks undertaking research have been integrated, informally if not yet formally via certification, into a long-established existing think tank network. The project benefited from, a strong internet dissemination strategy.

Theme: Community activism

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan impact, research

Project: Opening the Doors of Policy Making in Central Asia and South Caucasus
Evaluation Date: July 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

A key aspect of the project’s success was using host country experience to demonstrate the democratic policy problem being worked on.

Theme: Community activism

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Project: Human Rights Education for the Police
Evaluation Date: May 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Although the line authority for higher education in Kazakhstan did not veto the objectives nor the timeline for activities during the project’s initial consultations, whether human rights training will become a mandatory discipline for Kazakhstan’s police academies was still vague at the time of the evaluation. The grantee should have maintained an ongoing communication and coordination with the Ministry of Education to secure its approval.

Theme: Rule of law

Kazakhstan communication, engagement, government

Project: Human Rights Education for the Police
Evaluation Date: May 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The Department for Educational and Methodological Matters of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kazakhstan – who were a partner of the grantee – submitted an application for approval of the new, mandatory, human rights training for police academies to the Ministry of Education upon completion of the Human Rights Training manual drafting process. At the time of the evaluation visit still no launch date had been secured and almost 2,600 training manual copies were on the shelf. With plans for future training, review and production of new training manuals yet to be confirmed – to keep pace with national legislative developments – there is a serious risk that knowledge will be lost and that existing course material becomes out of date.

Theme: Rule of law

Kazakhstan manual, outcomes, sustainability

Project: Human Rights Education for the Police
Evaluation Date: May 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The workshops and study tours were very effective at awareness raising among the police educators and for one participant were “an eye opener which took the staff of the faculties out of their academic isolation”. Participants left the training owning the idea that dedicated human rights courses for the police must be held in Kazakhstan.

UNDEF/Kazakstan

Theme: Rule of law

Kazakhstan human rights, knowledge, training

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