Within the Small Grants Programme, 47 articles in media were published, 4 public hearings organized, 3 workshops and 5 public awareness events. In total, 548 citizens participated. Today, organizations implemented local grants are meeting in Karaganda at the workshop with other civil society groups, and discuss the ways how of further cooperation.

"The best way how to solve local problems is to activate the citizens. Civic groups implemented small grants showed their power and creativity when involving their neighbours and addressing responsible authorities. Their effort contributed to chemical safety and improvement of the environment for life of themselves and their children," says Martin Skalsky, project coordinator of Arnika.

"Our experts provided local groups with help in planning their campaigns, publicity or seeking for the ways of tackling serious environmental pollution. Now we need to keep the public pressure to enforce solution of revealed problems," stated Julia Kalmykova, small grants manager of EcoMuseum.

In total, 11 projects were submitted to the Small Grants Program from Karaganda, Akmola and East Kazakhstan oblasts. The requested sum of money exceeded EUR 30,000. Projects were assessed by the group of experts from the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and Russian Federation.

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