Documents of state planning system in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Currently, administrative reform in the Republic of Kazakhstan is implemented which provides measures for the development of public administration system on the principals of the effectiveness, transparency and accountability to the society on the basis of studying the best international practices. In this regard, this article describes issues related to the functioning of the state planning system in Kazakhstan. In particular, what documents must be included in the state planning and requirements for their design and content. For the stated purpose the article analyzes the existing instruments and their grouping for program and policy. Along with that law and regulation documents such as Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan «On state planning system in the Republic of Kazakhstan», the Rules of development and implementation of strategic and program documents, the Budgetary Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan were considered. The analysis revealed how the existing policy and strategy comply with the requirements of the regulations. The article notes that in order to optimize the existing instruments the government organized a campaign to conduct the audit. The results of the audit led to conclusion that existing public sector programs need to be optimized because they do not meet the requirements of the results-oriented state planning. The authors give suggestions on which of the existing instruments are necessary to optimize: optimization by identifying the loss, the addition of the relevant criteria for the goals and objectives, or through the integration of new documents in the state planning system. Thus, the article made conclusions about the optimization of the documents necessary for the effective functioning of the state planning system in Kazakhstan.