Kazakhstan

Government responses

Mainstreaming of disability inclusion, participation, and partnerships 

• [7 August 2020] Persons with disabilities and children with health conditions have been exempted from mandatory mask-wearing in public places.

Continued access to goods and services

• [18 August 2020] Special educational institutions in the North Kazakhstan region would admit children to classes by appointment, only in an individual format for children with complex disabilities.

Medical and quarantine policies and processes

• [7 August 2020] Persons with disabilities and children with health conditions have been exempted from mandatory mask-wearing in public places.

Social protection and employment support

• [n.d.] There is now a mechanism to obtain disability status online.
• [March 2020] An anti-crisis package has been announced, including targeted assistance such as cash transfers to vulnerable households.
• [16 April 2020] The payment of disability benefits would be made during the entire period of the emergency. Also, the disability benefits have been recalculated, benefitting more than 22,800 recipients.
• [11 May 2020] Additional 125 billion tenge has been allocated for COVID-19 measures, of which 30.8 billion tenge has been allocated for the provision of food and household sets to certain categories of the population. The recipients include children from 6 to 18 years old, persons with disabilities of 1-3 groups, children with disabilities, persons engaged in caring for a child with a disability, and officially registered unemployed people.
• [11 May 2020] Utility costs would be reimbursed for seven categories of socially vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities of groups 1-3, families raising children with disabilities, and “invalids and participants of the Great Patriotic War, persons equated with disabled people and participants of the Great Patriotic War”.
• [23 July 2020] The Enbek State Programme for the Development of Productive Employment and Mass Entrepreneurship for 2017-2021 has been continued during the state of emergency. In the Pavlodar region, participants have been provided with state grants to develop new business ideas. The main beneficiaries include persons from large and low-income families, persons with disabilities, and young people.
• [5 September 2020] Food and household sets worth 1,320 million tenge in total have been distributed to 79,155 vulnerable citizens, including persons with disabilities of groups 1-3, children with disabilities under 16 years old, and people raising a child with a disability. Free protective masks worth a total of 160 million tenge have been provided for 470,615 socially vulnerable people, including persons with disabilities of groups 1-3.

Last modified: 6 May 2021