Too often, national plans and budgets fail to ensure that public services respond to women’s needs and priorities. Addressing these gaps is a strategic opportunity for the Government to meet its gender equality commitments. Gender-responsive budgeting encourages a comprehensive assessment of gender gaps and helps governments devise specific measures to close those gaps.

UN Women works with the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the National Commission on Women Affairs and Family and Demographic Policy under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan to integrate women’s gender-specific needs into Kazakhstan’s national development programmes and inter-governmental processes. Much of this work assists Kazakhstan to develop and meet national targets for gender-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – particularly SDG 5, Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

UN Women in Action in Kazakhstan

• The opportunities for civil servants and experts at the national level, as well as representatives of civil society and other stakeholders to receive additional education in the field of gender budgeting have been expanded through the free online training course "Gender analysis in the national planning and budgeting system" developed by UN Women, which has been integrated into the platform of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and will be used in the system of training and advanced training of civil servants to improve the process of national planning and budgeting, taking into account the principles of gender equality and equal rights and opportunities for women.
• Organised capacity-building trainings on gender and budgeting for central and local executive authorities.
• In 2022, about 50 representatives of public councils, NGOs and activists from 13 regions of Kazakhstan increased their capacity to conduct gender analysis and implement gender budgeting tools through participation in a 2-day training organized by UN Women in Astana.
• Developed a gender analysis methodology for use by public agencies in key economic sectors and produced SDG-related training modules on gender analysis, sex disaggregated indicators, and gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation of development programmes and policies.