The event was co-organized with the OECD Division of Reform of the Public Sector Public Governance and Territorial Development, Nazarbayev University and the Regional Hub of Civil Service in Astana. The conference brought together more than 40 participants, including Executive Secretaries from Ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Heads of Apparatus of regional Akimats and representatives from the Agency for Civil Service Affairs and Anticorruption of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The seminar addressed the following four critical issues: a) towards a high-capacity Autonomous Civil Service: the OECD experience, b) establishing an autonomous civil service; c) Senior Civil Service management and political-administrative interface, d) Civil Service systems and protections.