This OECD Review is published by the Public Governance Directorate of the OECD under the guidance of Marcos Bonturi, Director for Public Governance, and overall supervision of Jon Blondal, Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, and Martin Forst, Head of the Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division.
The Review was overseen by Tatyana Teplova, Senior Counsellor for Gender and Inclusiveness, and Ronnie Downes, Deputy Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division. It was primarily authored by Pinar Guven (Policy Analyst, Gender Mainstreaming) and Scherie Nicol (Policy Analyst, Gender Budgeting). The authors would like to thank Ronnie Downes and Elena Gentili who made significant contributions. It also benefited from the counsel of Elisabet Borrás Carbajo from the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration in Spain, and peer discussions at the OECD's 2018 Public Governance Committee Meeting.
The authors appreciate the views of experts at the Government of Canada including Justine Akman, Jean Lamirande, Alison McDermott, and Julia Smith. The authors also appreciate the considerable guidance of Michelle d'Auray, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OECD, Canada. The authors would like to thank Alba Bosch, Amy Coetzee, Andrew Davies, Gamze Igrioglu and Andrea Uhrhammer from the OECD Secretariat for their contributions. The authors also appreciate the suggestions and recommendations of experts at the OECD from the Economics Department and the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, in particular Monika Queisser, Senior Counsellor and Head of Social Policy Division. Benjamin Jouannes and Lyora Raab provided logistical support, and Bonifacio Agapin, Amelia Godber and Roxana Glavanov provided publication support.