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 Technical: The international corridors passing the Kazakhstan’s territory play an
important role in forming the State Program. Suggested projects and investments are
meant to increase the transit and export capacity of Kazakhstan by strengthening its
position in the international transport corridors. As such the State Program focuses more
on road and rail infrastructure with no attention to non-motorised transport.
 Procedural and financing: The approach of the infrastructure planning process is top-
down with the Presidential Decree sets the strategic direction of the infrastructure
development of the country. The largest share of the transport infrastructure funding is
from the IFIs and National Fund. Road user charges are in place in Kazakhstan, covering
16% of all repair and maintenance expenditure for republican roads.
 Content of NTI Plan : The State Program targets seven areas of infrastructure investment,
one of which is Transport and Logistics. It incorporated clear quantitative target indicators
for every year of the program period and provides a breakdown of these targets into
detailed yearly measurable results including the responsible executive bodies. The
indicators are however output-based, not outcome-based.
 Data collection: Transport related data is not exclusively collected in Kazakhstan, but a
part of a national statistics and data collection, which is most likely being collected by
conducting household surveys. There is also no information on which transport model is
applied to estimate ridership forecasts based on which the transport plans of Kazakhstan
are formulated.
 Monitoring and evaluation: The monitoring and evaluation system is mature with a
standard process that needs to be followed by all government agencies and coordinated by
the Ministry of National Economy.
Based on the questionnaire result, the NTI planning practice in Kazakhstan is quite mature
although Kazakhstan does not have a national transport master plan, se It should be
noted that this radar chart and the radar charts in the other case studies are developed based
on the questionnaires filled out by OIC Member States. As such, they are representing the views
of the Member States on NTI planning practice in their particular countries. The methodology
used to develop the radar charts is described in Appendix 3.
Figure 14: NTI Planning practice in Kazakhstan
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