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ANNOTATION
to the dissertation work of a doctoral student at the Academy of Public
Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Bekbossynova Zhamilya Arginbaevna on “Improving the performance of state
bodies in the formation of a strategic state apparatus” submitted for the degree
of doctor in the profile in the specialty “6D051000 - State and Local

Administration”

Relevance of the topic of the dissertation. The Constitution defines the
Republic of Kazakhstan as an independent, democratic, legal, secular and sovereign
State. The system of bodies that occupy a special place in a state that is expanding its
development is state bodies. The Constitution confers broad powers on each state
body.
Since the Republic of Kazakhstan gained its independence, along with the
implementation of economic and political reforms, work on a broad administrative
reform of the system of public administration of the country was initiated.
Administrative reform was necessary, first of all, to establish a trusting relationship
between the state and citizens, state bodies and public structures.
Thus, the system of state bodies began to determine its activities through the
implementation of goals and objectives before the state. Currently, one of the main
factors ensuring the competitiveness of Kazakhstan is an effective system of public
administration.
The first of 5 institutional reforms announced in 2015 was aimed at forming a
professional state apparatus.
To achieve this goal, Kazakhstan decided to proceed from the standards of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (hereinafter - OECD). At
the initiative of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs in
2018, for the first time the OECD developed a "comparative analysis of civil service
reforms in Kazakhstan and OECD countries. International experts positively assessed
the public service reforms in Kazakhstan. It was emphasized that Kazakhstan was the
first to introduce the concept of authorized body in the civil service system in the
post-Soviet space. It was also pointed out that the implemented reforms on the use of
principles of meritocracy, competence in public administration meet all the
requirements. Nevertheless, it is necessary to continue the development of public
administration system based on the best world practices. Currently, the OECD uses a
conceptual classification in assessing the development of public service, which is
based on 3 main stages: professional, strategic and innovative. These stages are not
mutually exclusive. Each subsequent stage is formed according to the previous one.
OECD experts assessed the development of Kazakhstan's civil service as a
stage of a professional state apparatus with elements of a strategic state apparatus. In
other words, going forward, Kazakhstan's civil service faces the goal of forming a
strategic state apparatus, attractive to the highest categories of professional
employees, distinguished by managers capable of managing change, who are active,
result-oriented employees, and transformational leaders. And given that the state
apparatus is a unified system of state bodies, to achieve this goal it is necessary to
improve the performance of state bodies.