Zhumagaziev: It is necessary to remember that Bastau project participants are former unemployed people
The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan considered the results of the Bastau programme implementation during the meeting on October 29. Since 2017, 88,000 people have been trained under the Bastau programme, 23,500 (26.5%) of them have started their businesses and created 35,000 jobs.
During the implementation of the project, the number of entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan increased by 2%. The majority of Bastau residents - 71% - engaged in agriculture and learned to integrate into production and supply chains, which makes their business more sustainable.
"In 2019, we organized cooperation between participants with high entrepreneurial potential, which allows us to create a business with solid income and reduces the potential risks of default of training participants. To analyze the results, we took two regions - the Zhambyl and West Kazakhstan region. In these regions, 150 large meat and dairy processing plants are operating at 9-60% of their full capacity. The graduates of the Bastau program have become suppliers of these enterprises, which allow increasing the volume of processing," Eldar Zhumagaziev, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Atameken, said.
The Bastau participants implemented 72.8 billion tenge worth of projects across the country. The volume of products and services rendered at the end of 2019 will amount to 103 billion tenge.
Evaluating the implementation of the Bastau programme, Deputy Prime Minister Berdibek Saparbayev expressed concern about the implementation of the programme in several regions. For example, he said, the issue of concessional loans is at the level of 42% of the plan in the Mangistau region, 41% – in Shymkent and 49% – in Nur-Sultan.
According to Zhumagaziev, financing barriers were among the top 4 problems of Bastau implementation. Given that 29% of Bastau projects and 63% of Zhas Kasipker projects are implemented in the service sector, manufacturing and trade, the impossibility of crediting projects in cities become an obstacle to the implementation of the program.
"Earlier it was stated that Fund of Financial Support of Agriculture JSC will lend in cities, for this purpose, appropriate changes to the Enbek programme were introduced. However, funding is still unavailable to the program participants because there were no changes introduced to the Rules of lending in cities and single-industry towns, and therefore the Fund has no right to finance in cities," Eldar Zhumagaziev said.
He also asked the Government to pay attention and make a decision on several problems. These include corruption risks in the financing of business projects, difficulties in obtaining the status of unemployed, as well as lack of transparency in the mechanisms of granting grants to graduates of the program.
"Compared to last year, the amount of the grant has increased ten-fold. As we have already mentioned, there are corruption risks, and our business coaches raise this problem. Without introducing an electronic queue, the problem will remain unsolved," Zhumagaziev said.
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