Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan for

corruption in the country, and in order to ascertain the true extent to which this phenomenon affects 
specific institutions, such as the police, judiciary, public procurement, tax and custom services, 
education, health system, etc. 
It is reported that the Financial Police is undertaking a survey of the Criminal Code to reduce 
problems with the enforcement of corruption related laws. The Financial Police also conducted and 
published two additional surveys on corruption since 2005. The Financial Police reports that it has 
developed criteria for calculating the level of corruption in public institutions or “corruption level index” 
which combined the “index of corruption penetration”, “index of counteractions against corruption” and 
“index of perception of corruption”. It is not clear, however, if those indexes have been used to date. In 
addition they do not appear to have been designed to generate information about specific sectors and 
institutions.

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Under a tender in the amount of 6 million Tenge launched by the Agency for Public Service Affairs 
(APSA), a Kazakhstan NGO, the “Sange Research Centre” undertook to survey the incidence and public‟s 
perceived level of corruption among 34 institutions of government and sectors of society, including the 
police, the Customs Agency, education organs, healthcare, courts, prosecutors, transportation, tax organs, 
utilities and public services, and Financial Police. The 137 page survey compiles and analyzes data on a 
variety of corruption indices including the average size of bribes. The data is aggregated in several ways 
including by city, oblast and region. It is reported that 500 copies of this report were printed and that as of 
September 2007, approximately 200 copies have been distributed.
The APSA has also cooperated with UNDP on anti-corruption projects although APSA was not 
leading the project implementation.
It is reported that the monitoring of the national anti-corruption action plan will be undertaken by 
NGO Transparency Kazakhstan although it is unclear what if anything the group has undertaken to this 
point.