On December 1, a meeting of the working group on the development of project management was held under the Head of the Department of Public Administration of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Akhmetov A.A. 

Project management is one of the most important issues on the political agenda of the country. 

“It is important to ensure the implementation of the decisions of the Supreme Council, the implementation of national projects, the introduction of the principles of project management of reforms,” the Head of State noted in his speech at a meeting of the Supreme Council on Reforms on October 21, 2020.

The authorized body for project management in Kazakhstan is the Ministry of National Economy, which is actively working to introduce project management into the activities of the state apparatus (training, coordination, methodological support, proposal development). 

For 1.5 years, 23 project offices of central government agencies and 17 project offices of local executive bodies have been created and are operating.

In February 2021, the Office for Monitoring the Implementation of National Projects was created, in May 2022 it entered the matrix structure of the Digital Government Office.

In September 2022, in order to support the Office for Monitoring the Implementation of National Projects, the Project Management Support Center was established as part of the Digital Government Support Center.

The participants of the event got acquainted with the results of the work of a number of project offices of local executive and central government agencies. After that, they held a small brainstorm and discussed the Rules for the implementation of project management, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated May 31, 2021 No. 358.