Graduate School of Public Policy

As a result of established cooperation between the Graduate School of Public Policy and the School of Political Management of Nur Otan party on April 14 “Modern governance approaches: the international experience” Executive Education programme was arranged for the central office of the Party.

GSPP professors and faculty members of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Cornell University shared their expertise and knowledge so that the listeners built a full understanding how the public policy is designed, how it works, who makes public policy and what are the ways to improve it.

Dr. Eduardo Araral (LKY School, Singapore) explained how the talent is selected, managed and retained in Singapore’s civil service. His colleagues, Associate Dean Donald Low gave an engaging presentation on how behavioural economics matters while choosing the best ways to implement policy.

Dr. Omer Baris and Dr. Riccardo Pelizzo of GSPP provided an extended analysis of costs of corruption, economics of anti-corruption policies and anti-corruption tools. Besides, Dr. Pelizzo interacted with the audience through questionnaire in identifying public perception of corruptive acts.

Following these two presentations, Dr. Charles Whitehead often provides his expertise in the area of legislation. He is a Professor of Business Law at the Cornell Law School. This time he shared his insights on how to reflect the values in the code of conduct and how to effectively and smoothly introduce such code and make it work.

Dr. Saltanat Janenova has been thoroughly studying issues of performance management and assessment in the public sector both in the Republic of Kazakhstan and OECD countries for many years. This programme allowed the participants learn the models of public management, criteria of performance assessment and problems related to that. Having a solid knowledge base on key issues of performance assessment equipped the listeners with the tools to critically think over new mechanisms of introduction of performance assessment in the public sector of Kazakhstan.

Participants of the workshop: secretaries, advisers to the First Deputy Chairman of the Party, heads and experts of Finance and Assets, Strategy and Monitoring, Political activities departments, Legal services, representatives of “Zhas Otan” youth branch, Institute of Public Policy and the School of Political Management itself.

April 8, 2016

GSPP Visiting Assistant Professor Anuar Ayazbekov took part in the inception of C5+1 Format Dialogue Working Groups meetings as a member of Kazakhstan delegation. C5+1 dialogue was launched in Samarkand in November 2015 as a new mechanism of cooperation of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and the United States. During the meeting Dr. Ayazbekov made a proposal to launch a Track II dialogue of research centers and think tanks within the C5+1 framework. The initiative was welcomed and supported by Kyrgyz and American delegations.