The report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), headed by Elsa Pilichowski. It was developed under the strategic direction of Martin Forst, Head of the Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division in GOV, and of Miriam Allam, Deputy Head of Division. The report and the work on youth empowerment and intergenerational justice is co-ordinated by Moritz Ader.
Giorgia Ponti (Chapter 1), Gamze Igrioglu (Chapter 2), Pietro Gagliardi (Chapter 3) and Moritz Ader (Chapter 4) co-authored the report and were responsible for the data collection and analysis. Gamze Igrioglu co-ordinated the data validation process with valuable contributions by Sebastian Franzkowiak, Metri Arrum, Aichetou Taffa, Tala Khanji and Stephanie Attil. Guillaume Biganzoli and Mai Hosny provided support in the selection of good practice examples. Ciara Muller and Raquel Paramo with support by Lukasz Lech and Roxana Glavanov prepared the manuscript for publication and controlled the quality.
The authors are grateful to Professor Achim Goerres from the University of Duisburg-Essen for conducting the quantitative analysis and Barbara Baredes from GOV’s Governance Indicators and Performance Evaluation Division for providing advice on survey design and methodology. They also thank James Sloam from the University of London and Hernan Cuervo from the University of Melbourne for their advice.
The report benefitted from the comments of colleagues from the OECD Public Governance Directorate, including Klas Klaas, Andrea Uhrhammer and Justin Kavanagh (Director’s Office), Adam Ostry (Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division), Monica Brezzi (Governance Indicators and Performance Evaluation), Alessandro Bellantoni, Barbara Ubaldi, Joao Vasconcelos, Claire Evoy, David Goessmann, Karine Badr, Claudia Chwalisz and Lucia Chauvet (Open and Innovative Government), Scherie Nicol and Donal Mulligan (Public Management and Budgeting), Pinar Guven (Gender Equality Unit), María Pascual-Dapena (Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development), Yola Thuerer and Daniel Trnka (Regulatory Policy Division), and Kenza Khachani (Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division). The authors are grateful to all colleagues for their input.
They wish to thank OECD colleagues for the valuable feedback received, in particular by Veerle Miranda (Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate), Bianca Isaincu (Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs), Romina Boarini, Carlotta Balestra and Grainne Dirwan (Centre for Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity), and Dirk van Damme (Directorate for Education and Skills).
The authors express their gratitude to Grace O’Regan (Ireland) and Guillermo Gutierrez Nieto (Mexico) for piloting the survey in their countries. They also wish to thank the Public Governance Committee (PGC) and the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) as well as the Friends of Youth (PLUS) Group for their strategic guidance throughout the elaboration of the report, in particular Reelika Ojakivi and Gerttu Aavik (Estonia), Katju Holkeri (Finland), Olive McGovern (Ireland), and Nicole Donkers (the Netherlands).
Finally, they are thankful for the feedback on the draft report and Discussion Document received by Asia Barclay and Christopher Rainer (Canada), Ignacio Becker Bozo (Chile), Mašková Zdeňka (Czech Republic), Daniel Gruß and Immanuel Benz (Germany), Julianna Kisné Mátrai (Hungary), Carlos Javier Castillo Pérez (Mexico), Maree Brown, Rosie Anderson, Gabrielle Tully, Kiri Milne, Juanita Tekani and Mark Field-Dodgson (New Zealand), Paul Durand (Peru) and Elif Telis (Turkey).
The OECD Secretariat would like to thank all countries and youth-led organisations that were involved throughout data collection, cleaning and analysis.