Public Finance Transparency

Mission

To facilitate transition of revenues from extracting industry into sustainable economic development of Kazakhstan by ensuring responsible and transparent public finance management and developing partner relationships among civil society, government, and business sector.

 

Objectives

• Development of partner relationships among government, extracting companies, and civil society aimed at sustainable development of regions
• Improvement of information transparency on subsurface use contracts signed and being signed by the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Support in implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ((EITI) in Kazakhstan
• Improvement of transparency and accountability of public finance management;
• Development of partner relationships between NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan on efficiency increase of state programs aimed at sustainable social and economic development
• Implementation of advanced standards by NGOs involved in the public finance monitoring.

 

Areas of activities

Within the framework of the Program, comprehensive projects are implemented for the purpose of transparency and accountability improvement along the entire chain of generation and allocation of revenues of extractive industries: from contracts and subsurface use licenses to the budget expenses related to the implementation of socio-economic development programs.

 

Priorities in 2010

• Organization of discussions involving the government, extracting companies, and civil society representatives and concerning possibility to renounce the confidentiality of contracts.
• Improvement of transparency and openness of the budgetary process in Kazakhstan through the use of the Open Budget Index (OBI) as a standard measure.
• Introduction of "civil budgets"' preparation and their publication practice, i.e. a digest of the basic state budget parameters, which is brief and comprehensible for the general public.
• Independent monitoring of the state programs efficiency in the field of health care, education and social security.
• Improvement of professional skills of Kazakhstan's journalists covering issues of public finance management, and NGOs involved in improvement of transparency and accountability.
• Facilitation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) evolution for the period following validation and expansion of the EITI mandate; assisting Kazakhstan in obtaining the status of a country that meets EITI requirements.

 

Contacts

Please, contact the program director Anton Artemyev for any issues related to the Public Finance Transparency Program.

 

111a Zheltoksan Str., Suit 9

Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan

Tel.: +7 727 250 38 11, 258 89 83 (ext.104)
Fax: +7 727 250 38 14
E-mail: pft(at)soros.kz

www.soros.kz
www.krw.kz
www.budget.kz

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