In 2010 the Young Researchers Project of the Soros Foundation – Kazakhstan supported research by Arsen Lukpanov– a research project titled Young People’s Motives for Participation in and Their Understanding of Volunteering as a Source of Experience and Relevant Knowledge.

In 2011 the Young Researchers Project of the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan’s Youth Initiatives Program supported the research Monitoring of the Efficiency of Government Support to Public Youth Organizations in Karaganda Region undertaken by Chingiz Lepsibayev from Temirtau.

In 2010 the Young Researchers Project of the Soros Foundation – Kazakhstan’s Youth Initiatives Program supported research by Malika Atasheva and Ainur Nurtai, young sociologists from Shymkent – a research project titled About the Accountability of NGOs Exemplified by Three NGOs from South Kazakhstan Oblast.

This presentation acquaints the readers with results of first part of the research carried out under the project aimed at protection of girls from rural areas against early and forced marriages supported by Law Reform Program of the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan.

This publication demonstrates analysis of current legislation of Kazakhstan and practices on organization and provision of free (subsidized) legal aid in the country. One of the chapters sheds light on international experience and best practices in the field of free legal aid provision.