The head of the National Endowment for Prosperity Foundation, Usen Suleyman, spoke about the effectiveness of NGO projects funded by international grants.
As a result of the analysis of international grant financing of national NGOs in Kazakhstan in the field of human rights and democracy, certain trends have been identified that create comfortable conditions for the radicalization of the human rights rhetoric of individual human rights groups.
The above trends include the rapid procedure for allocating foreign grants (based on an application) to human rights NGOs in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the lack of mechanisms for their accountability to the public, as well as the civil responsibility of these organizations (100% financing from foreign sources).
Such behavior of the civil sector of the Republic of Kazakhstan pushes government agencies away from the joint format of cooperation with them (OF Kadyr-Kasiyet, KMBHR, OF Ar.Rukh.Hack" and others), which isolates the human rights sector from the mainstream political and socio-economic processes in the country.
As a result, a civil society funded by foreign donors: 1) promotes an alternative agenda that does not correspond to the interests of the citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, focusing on issues as far from the problems of the country's population as the so-called LGBT, political prisoners, etc.; 2) does not take into account the social demand of the population of Kazakhstan; 3) does not solve and does not raise real problems of society in its reports; and 4) forms "its own reality," in which "The New Kazakhstan is presented as a mixture of increased repression and the continuity of the Nazarbayev era."
Comment: as an example, we can cite the recent project of the KMBHR on the publication of a Memo on the prevention and protection from abuse of children with disabilities in all types of children's institutions.
Instead of a proposal to solve the above problem, an empty, unrealizable document turned out. Such work on publishing unnecessary reports and provocative brochures can be compared to the work of "snowplows in hot weather" to launder grants.
Such work is funded by foreign donors, contrary to the fundamental UN documents on non–interference in internal affairs and respect for the political sovereignty of the country.
The civil society of Kazakhstan does not accept the imposition of an alien agenda through NGOs that receive exclusively foreign funding and refuse government grants. Such organizations do not feel social responsibility, do not feel the needs of the population and do not work with the government and state bodies of the country.
Paying tribute to the long-term financial and institutional assistance provided by international human rights organizations to domestic NGOs, it is important to note that the political system of Kazakhstan is steadily evolving.
Throughout the three decades of the country's independence, legislation in the field of human rights protection has only been strengthened. According to the President's vision, our legislation lacks decrees, laws and other normative documents according to which citizens could be persecuted for their political views.
The main task of the government is to strictly ensure law and order, while the political views and ideological preferences of the population have nothing to do with law and order.
The old formulaic, often completely unprofessional public statements about the totalitarian basis of the political system of Kazakhstan, which were stereotypically imposed as a "technical task" from radical colleagues from international grant donors, are groundless.
In this regard, the main issue is the form and methods of further transformation. Any calls for violent actions are a sign of the radicalism of the participants of the protest movements themselves. Dozens of mechanisms have been created in the country for an open public dialogue with the authorities (public councils at all levels, public hearings, media platforms on social networks, ombudsman institutions, etc.).
Often, the reason for the transition of representatives of human rights organizations to the path of political extremism are critical moments in life in times of danger or drastic changes. Destructive are: alarmism, hysteria, aggression, egocentrism, hatred, vanity, envy, vindictiveness, cynicism.
The problem is also that in supporting human rights activities, international NGOs are ready to support the most odious human rights defenders, who, having failed to find forms of harmonious dialogue with society through the mechanisms created in the country, help sow an atmosphere of denial, hopelessness and deadlock in our country.
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As a result of the analysis of international grant financing of national NGOs in Kazakhstan in the field of human rights and democracy, certain trends have been identified that create comfortable conditions for the radicalization of the human rights rhetoric of individual human rights groups.
The above trends include the rapid procedure for allocating foreign grants (based on an application) to human rights NGOs in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the lack of mechanisms for their accountability to the public, as well as the civil responsibility of these organizations (100% financing from foreign sources).
Such behavior of the civil sector of the Republic of Kazakhstan pushes government agencies away from the joint format of cooperation with them (OF Kadyr-Kasiyet, KMBHR, OF Ar.Rukh.Hack" and others), which isolates the human rights sector from the mainstream political and socio-economic processes in the country.
As a result, a civil society funded by foreign donors: 1) promotes an alternative agenda that does not correspond to the interests of the citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, focusing on issues as far from the problems of the country's population as the so-called LGBT, political prisoners, etc.; 2) does not take into account the social demand of the population of Kazakhstan; 3) does not solve and does not raise real problems of society in its reports; and 4) forms "its own reality," in which "The New Kazakhstan is presented as a mixture of increased repression and the continuity of the Nazarbayev era."
Comment: as an example, we can cite the recent project of the KMBHR on the publication of a Memo on the prevention and protection from abuse of children with disabilities in all types of children's institutions.
Instead of a proposal to solve the above problem, an empty, unrealizable document turned out. Such work on publishing unnecessary reports and provocative brochures can be compared to the work of "snowplows in hot weather" to launder grants.
Such work is funded by foreign donors, contrary to the fundamental UN documents on non–interference in internal affairs and respect for the political sovereignty of the country.
The civil society of Kazakhstan does not accept the imposition of an alien agenda through NGOs that receive exclusively foreign funding and refuse government grants. Such organizations do not feel social responsibility, do not feel the needs of the population and do not work with the government and state bodies of the country.
Paying tribute to the long-term financial and institutional assistance provided by international human rights organizations to domestic NGOs, it is important to note that the political system of Kazakhstan is steadily evolving.
Throughout the three decades of the country's independence, legislation in the field of human rights protection has only been strengthened. According to the President's vision, our legislation lacks decrees, laws and other normative documents according to which citizens could be persecuted for their political views.
The main task of the government is to strictly ensure law and order, while the political views and ideological preferences of the population have nothing to do with law and order.
The old formulaic, often completely unprofessional public statements about the totalitarian basis of the political system of Kazakhstan, which were stereotypically imposed as a "technical task" from radical colleagues from international grant donors, are groundless.
In this regard, the main issue is the form and methods of further transformation. Any calls for violent actions are a sign of the radicalism of the participants of the protest movements themselves. Dozens of mechanisms have been created in the country for an open public dialogue with the authorities (public councils at all levels, public hearings, media platforms on social networks, ombudsman institutions, etc.).
Often, the reason for the transition of representatives of human rights organizations to the path of political extremism are critical moments in life in times of danger or drastic changes. Destructive are: alarmism, hysteria, aggression, egocentrism, hatred, vanity, envy, vindictiveness, cynicism.
The problem is also that in supporting human rights activities, international NGOs are ready to support the most odious human rights defenders, who, having failed to find forms of harmonious dialogue with society through the mechanisms created in the country, help sow an atmosphere of denial, hopelessness and deadlock in our country.
Link to the source Zakon.kz