The budget has a central role in impacting citizens’ lives through translating public policy objectives into budget lines, and improving the openness of the budget process and documents. This is crucial to strengthening the integrity, accountability, and strategic approach of public governance. This chapter assesses the status of open budgeting in the Republic of Kazakhstan, describing the specific practices of open, transparent, and inclusive budgeting and oversight in the country’s public sector. The overview of the legal framework and the budget cycle is followed by the assessment of budget transparency on national and sub-national levels, the extent of social accounting and audit, and the adoption of participative budgeting practices - including those targeted at ensuring women play a larger role in the budget process (“gender budgeting”).