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Inclusive quality digital learning and skills through the creation of alternative education pathways

Children and adolescents in Kazakhstan and elsewhere today live in an ever-changing world where they face unprecedented challenges to and opportunities for their future. These challenges and opportunities are grounded in new and continually advancing technologies, rapidly transforming job markets, environmental threats, political upheaval and migration among other factors. The gender digital divide is reflected through girls facing barriers to ...

UNICEF Kazakhstan's experience as a digital public goods pathfinder country

In 2020, UNICEF Kazakhstan, in partnership with the Government of Kazakhstan, and with funding and support from the Digital Public Good Alliance (DPGA) launched an initiative focusing on Digital Public Goods (DPGs) and became a Digital Public Goods Pathfinder Country. Under this initiative, UNICEF and partners und...

01 November 2022

“The most important thing we learned is to understand each other”

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan created and conducted the “Learning to Develop a Child” training course as part of the “Introduction of Effective Technologies to Support Vulnerable Families with Children and Teenagers” join...

20 September 2022

GIGA Steering Committee held its second meeting in Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN, September 16, 2022 – Today, the second meeting of the GIGA Steering Committee took place in the capital, chaired by the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MDDAIA). The GIGA Steering Committee was set up in 2021 under the Memorandum of...

From mentoring to a dialog among equals

Inna Zhilevskaya is a biology teacher with 27 years of experience. “During all these years at the school, there has not been a single situation that would prompt me to question the fact that this is where I am supposed to be,” she says. Inna enjoys her job, but in recent years, with the COVID-19 pandemic, there ha...

"Heroes of Children": UNICEF photo exhibition opens in Nur Sultan

NUR-SULTAN, April 31, 2022 - Today, the Country Office of UNICEF in Kazakhstan opened a photo exhibition dedicated to the 75 th anniversary of UNICEF in the world and The Year of Children in Kazakhstan. The exposition is called “Heroes of Children” and presents portraits and stories of 30 heroes who, together with...

25 February 2022

UNICEF and Kazakhstan Urbanists on Designing Inclusive Playgrounds

NUR-SULTAN, February 25, 2022 – Today, within the framework of the Republican Forum "Kazakhstan for every child. Development of an inclusive play environment”, international and Kazakhstani experts in the field of urban studies, inclusion and protection of children's rights shared their thoughts about what a play ...

14 February 2022

Paving accessible path to the future

Anastasia Rybalko, a 17-year-old resident of Pavlodar, has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy since birth. At the same time, her impairment does not prevent her from travelling around the city on her own, and she considers herself to be “mobile”. The Accessible Kazakhstan website plays a significant role here. Ana...

12 January 2022

“I want every child with disability to have all the digital skills”

Ilyas Fatkulin cannot imagine his life without a smartphone. He wakes up with his phone's alarm clock, reads the news, pays for any purchases through banking apps, works using his computer programs and chats in messengers. All his activities are connected through gadgets. Ilyas lost his sight at the age of 16, aft...

08 December 2021

UNICEF establishes its Business Advisory Council in Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN/ALMATY, 8 December 2021 – The private sector has a critical role in building a society where the rights of every child are realised. Today, to unlock the potential for business in building a better society for children, UNICEF Kazakhstan establishes its Business Advisory Council, which will enhance coll...

Social workers from six Kazakhstan regions were trained on psychosocial support of families

Nur-Sultan, August 4, 2021 г. - Two national expert trainers, associate professors of Karaganda Medical University, Larissa Matsievskaya and Anna Knaus, delivered a three-day online training for 104 specialists from Almaty, East Kazakhstan, Karaganda and Turkestan regions, as well as Almaty and Shymkent citie...

23 December 2020

Experts discuss strategies for post-covid inclusion in blended learning in Kazakhstan

Nur-Sultan, 22 December 2020 – Ensuring learner-centered approaches in digital and blended learning for inclusion during and post the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan were key topics of a discussion held today. The virtual discussion was organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Educa...