Solutions Journalism Lab ІI

Akim from the People: What Can True Democracy Change in Rural Areas

National Fund: How Are the Requirements for Reporting and Transparency Being Met?

No Stands and no Atmosphere: Why Kazakhs No Longer Attend Football Matches

If Only You Knew: How Waste Becomes Christmas Trees and Paving Stones — and Why Recycling Solutions Are Ignored in Kazakhstan.

What Prevents the Construction of Quality Roads in the West Kazakhstan Region?

“Silence Is Not the Answer”: Why Cases of Violence Against Children Do Not Reach the Courts

Courageous Steps in Combating Alcohol: How Villages in West Kazakhstan Can Inspire One Another

Tourism and Ecology: Achieving Sustainable Development

Combating Domestic Violence: The Practice of Psychological Correction

How Are Printer Cartridges Disposed of in Kazakhstan?

How Can Telemedicine Improve the Lives of Rural Residents Despite the Shortage of Doctors and Outdated Hospitals?

Toll Roads: What Is the Level of Service and Quality?

Teenage Depression and Suicide: Alarming Statistics and Paths to Prevention

Barriers to Building a Water-Saving Culture

The Voice of a Quiet World: Steps Toward Bridging Children with Autism and Society

Greening the Seabed — Could This Be the Solution?

“You Gave Birth to That Yourself” What Awaits an Autistic Child in Kazakhstan if the Family Has No Millions INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Deadly Streets: How Vision Zero Could Improve Kazakhstan's Roads. Akims Come and Go — But the Problems Remain

Emissions in the Air: Why Kazakhstan Must Rethink Its Environmental Agenda

Saving History for the Next Generation: How Semey Is Fighting for Its Historic Architecture FIGHTING FOR HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE

Sport as a National Idea

One Child, Many Doors: Why Kazakhstan Needs a Unified and Safe System to Support Children After Sexual Violence — and How the Barnahus Model Could Transform It

Being There When Memory Fades

Why Are Cities in Kazakhstan Drowning? The Chronicles of a Sinking Atbasar

“Phytoremediation Using Poplar, Birch, and Willow”: Which Method Can Best Reduce the Impact of Heavy Metals in Aktobe?

Can Concerts and Marathons Become a New Driver of Tourism in Kazakhstan?

How the “Black Soldier Fly” Helps Recycle Food Waste

When Mom Is in Focus: How Home Visit Service Helps Prevent Postpartum Depression

Deserted Streets and Silent Factories: What’s Happening to Kazakhstan’s Monotowns

Online Ambulance Monitoring: Less Anxiety for Citizens — Less Load on the Call Center

Specific Steps for Improving English Language Teaching in Rural Schools

How to Help People with HIV Step Out of the Shade

Paving Slab and Manhole Cover Manufacturing: Plastic Recycling Experience at a Karaganda Enterprise

Saving Rural Life in an Urbanizing World

How to Implement Waste Sorting and Recycling in Astana

“One Village – One Product”: Light and Shadow

Why Don’t Inventions in Our Country Reach Production?

Postpartum Depression in Kazakhstan: How Can the British Experience Change the Situation?

How Can a Child Adapt to a New School More Quickly?

Residents of Oral still wash cars with drinking water. How can the city solve the technical water problem?

How to Solve the Gas Shortage Problem in the West Kazakhstan Region?

FROM STEPPE TO EXPORT: How to Build a New Gastro Brand for Kazakhstan?

How to Develop the Leather Industry?

A Journey into the World of Autism: One Day in the Life of 5-Year-Old Zhanibek

On the Brink, But Not Without Hope: How the Tien Shan Argali Could Be Saved in Southern Kazakhstan

The Problem of Single-Industry Towns in East Kazakhstan: Mines May Disappear — But Hope Remains

A Difficult but Effective Way to Reduce Utility Bills

The Transplant Problem in Kazakhstan: How Can the Donor Shortage Be Solved?

The Train Has Gone – But the Trash Remains: Why the Steppes of Mangystau Are Turning into an Illegal Dump

Life Beyond Four Walls: What Parents of Children with Special Needs Need to Work and Recover

The Historic Houses in Oral: Restore or Demolish?

On Motivation, Aliens, and Wooden Toys: How People with Special Needs Are Employed in Kazakhstan

Second Wind: Why Pensioners in Kazakhstan Choose Employment

How to Turn "White Gold" into a Source of Income for Farmers

Where does unwearable clothing end up?

Biohumus: if we want to avoid waste…

Insuring Property Against Natural Disasters

How Can Business and the Scientific Community Find Common Ground?

What Are the Solutions to Resident Doctors’ Financial Struggles?

A Viable Solution: How to Effectively Use Lake Sorbulak for Agriculture

Four Months of Silence on Instagram or Who Protects the Digital Rights of Kazakhstan Musicians?

Challenges in Developing the Craft Industry

"Green Cities of Kazakhstan" — a piece about urban greening issues

The Story of How the Residents of a Dying Village Fight for Its Revival

Almaty Residents Submit Applications for the “Public Participation Budget” More Actively Than in Other Regions

Urban Development and Snow Leopards: How to Preserve the Irbis in Almaty

"People Don't Return from Prison to Mars, They Return to Society"

Tens of Thousands of Vacant Square Metres: Can Administrative Buildings in Kazakhstan's Megacities Be Put to Use?

Where Can People with Disabilities Find Work?

The VAB Method: Can Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy Be an Alternative to Surgery for Benign Breast Tumours?

How to Make Kazakhstan's Cities Quieter and More Comfortable

How Much Will Sport Cost Kazakhstan in 2025?

Beating Means Sick? Why Kazakhstan Should Introduce Compulsory Treatment for Domestic Abusers

An Eco Startup, Environmental Awareness, and the Second Life of Plastic

Why is the footwear industry stagnating in Kazakhstan?

Can Drip Irrigation Solve the Water Shortage Problem?

Taraz: The only city in Kazakhstan without a proper sewage system

Floods in Kostanay and the Region – How to Stop Torrents of Water and Minimise the Damage

Semey Is Losing Part of Its History: A 20th-Century Building Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes

The Game of Illness: Gambling Addiction — A Modern-Day Diagnosis

Are psychiatric centres in Kazakhstan turning into hubs of abuse and mistreatment?

An Example of a "Survivor": How Peer Counselling Helps Cancer Patients

Smog in Almaty: Crime or Negligence? Clean Air as a Privilege

How to Save the Caspian Sea from Ecological Catastrophe

How Is Civil Society Developing in the Aktobe, Atyrau and Mangystau Regions?

30 Years of Repatriation: Why Do the Kandas Still Feel Like Strangers in Their Homeland?

4,000 Blocked Websites: How Can We Tackle Shadow Bookmakers?

Broken and Forced into Tiny Coffins: How Kazakhstan Buries the Unclaimed and Unidentified

Life After Death: In Kazakhstan, 300 People Die Each Year Due to Organ Shortages

BAD SCHOOLS: The Tragedy of Students in Kazakhstan