The action was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by the OECD, in co‑operation with the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission.
This report has been prepared jointly by the Skills and Employability Division of the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) and the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development of the OECD’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), together with the consultants Jerome Bickenbach, Carolina Fellinghauer, Mario Marcolin, Aleksandra Pošarac, and Ilaria Simonelli.
The OECD would like to thank several government and non-government experts from Italy, including the four regions involved in the project and the disability assessment pilot, for their collaboration and feedback during the project and to earlier versions of this report. Thanks go to:
The Department for policies in support of people with disabilities, operating under the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Antonio Caponetto and his team).
For the Campania Region, the regional administration, INPS Campania (Alessio Sullo and colleagues), and several local health authorities (ASL Avellino, ASL Benevento and ASL Napoli).
For the Lombardy Region, the regional administration (Paolo Pelizza and colleagues) and several local health authorities (ASST Brescia and the ASSTs from ten other provinces).
For the Autonomous Region Sardinia, the regional administration (Marika Batzella and her team), INPS Sardinia and several local health authorities (ASL Nuoro and ASL Sassari).
For the Autonomous Province of Trento, the regional administration (Roberto Pallanch and his team), Fondazione Demarchi (subcontracted by the province to organise the pilot), the local health authority (APSS) and the provincial agency for social security (APAPI).
For the Umbria region, the regional administration organising the study visit.
The National Observatory on the condition of people with disabilities, the National Institute of Social Security, the National Office of Statistics, and civil society organisations representing people with disabilities (including FISH and FAND and their respective member associations).
The European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Structural Reform Support (Rima Joujou Deljkic, María Isabel Farfan Camacho, Raluca Painter, and Marc Vothknecht).
The report is also available in Italian, translated by Silvia Brizi Mariotti who has also provided interpretation services during the project.
The painting on the front cover comes from Ateliers Personimages, a French non-profit association promoting artistic creation for persons with disabilities (www.personimages.org).