Professor of AlmaU received a grant from the British Council!

The doctor of political sciences, professor, the director of expert center of Almaty Management University Bakytnur Otarbayeva won in the competition "Newton Researcher Links Travel Grant". The organizer of the grant program for researchers is the British Council.

This victory gave to Bakytnur Otarbayeva grant for academic mobility: Professor of AlmaU has an opportunity within 6 months to conduct research at the University of Nottingham, UK.

The theme of the research is "Interaction between business and NGOs. An effective partnership for sustainable development technology”. The goal - to study the issue of interaction between business and NGOs in the UK, the existing practice of effective models of cooperation in the country to promote and spread them in Kazakhstan to improve the health and welfare of the population.

Development of partnership between business and NGO is an effective solution of social problems in the developed countries for a long time. Joint activities of business and NGO can quite help with the solution of many social problems including health issues and welfare of people. As business not always possesses the complete information about specific needs and needs of vulnerable group of the population, has no special knowledge and skills in this question, and the NGO not always has enough resources for implementation of the activities, but has fine work experience with people, for example, as HIV-positive people, children with autism, orphan children and other persons in need, their cooperation can be effective in the solution of social problems.

Kazakhstan does not have such system of interaction between a corporate and noncommercial sector, which could promote improving of rendering services by non-comercial organizations to their beneficiaries, and also would expand practice of social responsibility of business.

For this reason this research can be the very useful in the solution of the matter, and also in development and advance of partnership between business and NGO in Kazakhstan.