On 15 and 16 October, 2021 Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy (GSPP) hosts a conference entitled Policy change and sectoral reforms in Eurasia. Prof.Dr. Weng Tat Hui, Dean of GSPP, welcomed more than 80 participants from various universities in Kazakhstan and abroad. Jean-Francois Marteau, Country Manager for Kazakhstan, World Bank, delivered a keynote speech referring to the economic recovery of Central Asia from the consequences of COVD – 19 pandemics.

ISTC took part in Session 1 of the conference: Development Challenges in Eurasia. The ISTC presentation focused on evidence that the transfer of Kazakh experience in nuclear governance becomes a foreign policy asset and an instrument for development cooperation. The EU-funded project Support to Southern African States in Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, implemented by the International Science and Technology Center, served as a test ground for sharing of the experience of the Committee for Atomic and Energy Supervision and Control and Kazatomprom in uranium mining and transport with countries from the Southern African Development Community. This example reveals the potential the Kazakhstan’s normative and institutional frameworks for nuclear governance have for the input of Kazakhstan in international development cooperation.