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01.10.2020
Civil Initiatives Support Center (СISC) has won a grant of the Embassy of the United States of America in Nur-Sultan to implement a social project within the work aimed at promotion of CISC’s initiatives. This is the first grant of the Project Office team for Non-State Grant Financing within the open call for grant applications of the US Embassy. The project is aimed at expanding economic opportunities and promoting the idea of entrepreneurship among female students of colleges of vocational and technical education in Nur-Sultan. The project provides organization of trainings on the following basic knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship for female students: business planning,...
30.09.2020
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18.09.2020
Growing citizenship activity is obvious – at the initiative of the Head of State, approaches are changing Today, President  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in his Address to the people of Kazakhstan http://www.akorda.kz/ru/addresses/addresses_of_president/poslanie-glavy-gosudarstva-kasym-zhomarta-tokaeva-narodu-kazahstana-1-sentyabrya-2020-g said that in such challenging environment, our main task is to preserve socio-economic stability, high level of population’s employment and income. “Hearing State” is, in fact, the concept of building a “Fair State”. It is not enough just to listen and see the population’s problems, the main thing is to correctly and...
01.09.2020
The U.S. Embassy Nur-Sultan Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State launched a call for proposals that seeks to provide funding support to Kazakhstan and United States’ not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations that support the development and implementation of strategic programming at American Corners in Kazakhstan. Grant funding in the maximum amount of 50 000 USD under this Call for Proposals shall be provided under the following priority themes and complement or utilize American Corners’ core programs: Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship, particularly for women, youth (18 – 30) and vulnerable population to advance economic independence and...
24.08.2020
The United Nations office on drugs and crime (UNODC) has initiated a grant program to provide financial support to civil society organizations, in particular community-based organizations working in the field of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for people who use drugs (LUN) and people in prison, to ensure the quality of HIV services that meet their needs. Applications for grants up to 20,000 USD can be submitted in three categories: Develop and implement evidence-based and gender-based HIV services for people in prison. Development and implementation of services and programs for HIV-infected drug users. Develop sustainable partnerships with law enforcement and the health sector...
14.08.2020
On September 23-25, 2019, the Civil Initiatives Support Center with the support of the British Embassy in Kazakhstan held trainings on capacity building of NGOs. The training was attended by representatives of NGOs from Nur-Sultan, Kostanay, Pavlodar and Almaty regions. Coach Kate Denman, who has more than 15 years of experience in project management, conducted the training so that participants could analyze stakeholders, make projects using the method of logical chain, plan the project using time planning tools, explain what MEAL is (Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Training), define the key terms of MEAL, integrate MEAL into the project design, make a MEAL plan for the project. Coach...
07.08.2020
6 the best projects from Karaganda region were given small grants for the provision of services in the children’s development center, the development of rural youth volunteering, training of family members of people with disabilities in therapeutic massage, training in mediation, pensioners in computer literacy, activation of members of the local community meeting. Small grants were awarded by the NGO “EcoCentre” within the framework of the project “Capacity building of rural NGOs of Karaganda region” funded by the Civil Initiatives Support...
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