National Plan Land-Use Planning until 2025.

National Land-Use Planning until 2025 is developed in accordance with the State Planning System in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is structured according to the principle of “human-centricity” aimed at improving quality of life and increasing the well-being of the population. By 2025 in the territorial and spatial development of the country the following qualitative changes will occur: (a) balanced distribution of powers between executive levels of executive authorities, which will lead to positive and sustainable dynamics of growth in the quality of life and the level of mutual trust on the ground; equipping macroregions with strategic infrastructure, which will lead to the growth of private investment and the gradual transformation of their labor market.
The scope of the National Land-Use Planning is to strengthen competitiveness of regional socio-economic systems through disclosure and support of their potential. It is based on the following principles: (a) territorial neutrality – absence of territorial discrimination in horizontal (sectoral) policies and socio-economic policy measures, capable of leading to disunity and social tension; (b) human-centricity - the formation of regional policy in the interests of people (the state does not interfere in the spatial choice of people and businesses, while this ensures equal access of the population to basic public services); (c) independence of regions - delegation of issue resolution of intraregional development to local government bodies, taking into account the interests and the views of local people and businesses. Local executive bodies must have sufficient powers and resources to solve local problems. At the national level, the resolution of issues of national or interregional scale.
To achieve the goal and implement the principles of the National Land-Use Planning the following approaches are provided: (a) institutional support for territorial and spatial development; (b) reducing gaps in basic public services between regions; (c) ensuring interregional territorial connectivity; (d) convergence of economic and regional development; and (e) sustainable spatial development within regions.
The most critical interregional gaps (disproportions) occur in water supply and sanitation infrastructure. In this regard, measures will be taken to ensure engineering and communal infrastructure of lagging regions. This adopted measures will be focused on solving priority issues, first of all, water supply and sanitation, modernization of networks public utilities sector.
In agricultural sector the major attention shall be focused on increasing the productivity of agricultural land through the creation, restoration and modernization of irrigation and land reclamation systems (irrigation and drainage); increasing the efficiency of biological factors through the creation and modernization of chemicalization systems, the development of phytosanitary and veterinary medicine.