CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ARGO - Key Persons


Anton Alfyorov

Job Titles:
  • System Administrator
Anton is a System Administrator who performs work on computer maintenance, enterprise network, purchase and repair of equipment, and installation of software. His work experience in IT is more than 9 years.

Aziza Khoshimova

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager of the Partnership for Innovations
Aziza is a Program Manager of the Partnership for Innovations project (P4I - 2016-2021). Among her duties and responsibilities was overall management of P4I grantors' program activity.

Erlen Abdulmanov

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist
Erlen is a Communications Specialist, and has worked with ARGO Team since January 2019. He started his activity in the Partnership for Innovations Program, and now continues working in the Innovation for Change.

Galiya Akynova

Chief Accountant and Financial Adviser. Ms. Akynova supervises all economic issues, including financial management, accounting, taxation, auditing, and liaison work with all financial institutes and partners. She is a financial expert with 25years of work experience in finance and accounting.

Gulsum Kakimzhanova

Job Titles:
  • Director of NGO "IRIS" Semey, Kazakhstan
Gulsum has over 20 years experience in the field of environmental protection. Pioneered the International antinuclear movement "Nevada-Semipalatinsk", she is one of the organizers and participants of public shares on closing the Semipalatinsk test site, international conferences, the initiator of the law "On social rehabilitation of persons affected by the Semipalatinsk test site" (1992). She created a public association "Union of victims of nuclear tests". Gulsum Kakimzhanova, diploma recipient the Goldman Environmental Prize, 2005

Inkara Mukatova

Job Titles:
  • Regional Coordinator of the Innovation for Change ( I4C ) Central Asian Hub
Inkara Mukatova is a Regional Coordinator of the Innovation for Change (I4C) Central Asian Hub.

Kaisha Atakhanova

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Leader
Director, "Partnership for Innovations" Program, Director of ARGO Regional Programs. Winner, The International Goldman Environmental Prize (2005). Since 2012, Ms. Atakhanova has led regional programs at ARGO, including the development and strategic management of "Partnership for Innovations - P4I" Program (2016-2020), in Central Asian countries and Azerbaijan. A biologist by education, Ms. Atakhanova started her career examining scientific research on human radiation genetic effects. She engaged in public activities by organizing the Karaganda Ecological Center, developing democratic principles based on relations between the state and society in the protection of environmental values. Ms. Atakhanova is a recognized leader of the nationwide campaign against radioactive waste import in Kazakhstan and co-coordinator of the EcoForum antinuclear campaign, a public association national network in Kazakhstan.

Ms. Jamila Asanova

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of the Civil Society Development Association
Ms. Jamila Asanova Executive Director of the Civil Society Development Association (ARGO). Jamila has 25 years' experience in the development sector. As the Executive Director of ARGO, Jamila has expanded the umbrella organization to cover eight Central Asian and regional countries with over 2,000 member organizations and activists; managed large-scale regional projects. She was the steward of the Civil Society Innovation Initiatives (Innovation for Change) global governance board, uniting 7 South Global regional civil society development Hubs. She is a Jamila is high-level advocate both within Kazakhstan and internationally, through membership in various national councils under the Ministries of Kazakhstan; and the first representative of Kazakhstani civil society to speak at the UN High Level Political Forum, in 2019.

Natalya Yakovleva

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Director
Administrative Director. Ms. Yakovleva works in Association since 2005. Ms. Yakovleva runs all ARGO administrative and logistical issues and ensures uninterrupted operation of the office. In addition, she is a principal operational manager of all the activities and events held under the auspices of ARGO. She has extensive experience in conducting conferences, seminars, trainings, and events, which allows her to solve operational issues in a prompt, professional and effective manner.

Roza Abdullayeva

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of NGO "Bereke", Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Ms. Abdullayeva is an expert with 17 years of work experience in the sphere of civil society development, promotion of community involvement in decision-making processes, and strengthening of NGOs' organizational and institutional capacity. Under Ms. Abdullayeva's supervision, Bereke is successfully implementing major socially significant projects and programs supported by well-known Kazakhstani and international donors.

Sergey Petrov

Sergey Petrov has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than 12 years. He started his career with the Delegation of the European Union in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the position of Finance and Contracts Officer. He was responsible for 82 projects, totaling to EUR50 million. For the last 8 years, he worked as a Regional Finance Manager in the Dutch Royal Association for Combating Tuberculosis (KNCV) in three USAID 5-year projects. He has experience in working in projects of such donors as the Global Fund, WHO, UnitAid.

Tatyana Reznikova

Job Titles:
  • Small Grants Manager in the Regional Team of the Program for the Conservation of Key Biodiversity Areas in Central Asian Mountainous Regions
Tatyana has an MBA degree (Finance) and has more than 15-year experience in administering grants in projects of the World Wildlife Fund, UN Development Program and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Yerlan Sultashev

Job Titles:
  • Learning Manager
Yerlan is a distance learning manager and deals with promoting the CSO Web Academy training online platform in ARGO.

Наталья Яковлева

АРГО әкімшілік директоры. Қауымдастықтағы қызметін 2005 жылы бастады. Наталья АРГО-ның барлық әкімшілік мәселелерін басқарады, логистиканы ұйымдастырады және кеңсенің үздіксіз жұмыс істеуін қамтамасыз етеді. Сонымен қатар, Наталья - АРГО эгидасымен өткізілетін барлық шаралардың негізгі басқарушысы. Конференциялар, семинарлар, тренингтер және т.б. шараларды өткізудегі үлкен тәжірибесі оған жедел мәселелерді шұғыл, кәсіби деңгейде және тиімді шешуге, және кез келген деңгейдегі шараларды ұйымдастыруға мүмкіндік береді.