This report was prepared by the OECD Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) Unit in the Office of the Secretary-General, under the overall supervision of Ebba Dohlman, Senior Advisor, and with analytical support from Ernesto Soria Morales and Carina Lindberg. Elisabeth Kamm, Carlo Schmid intern, provided valuable inputs to the drafting and review process of all national survey responses.
The report draws extensively on analysis carried out across a range of OECD Directorates. Chapter 1 has benefitted from an in-depth review, with substantive inputs provided by the following colleagues: Brilé Anderson, Ruben Bibas, Simon Buckle, Anthony Cox, Rob Dellink, Jane Ellis, Katia Karousakis, Kumi Kitamori, Myriam Linster, Michael Mullan, Dirk Röttgers, Aayush Tandon and Robert Youngman in the Environment Directorate; Aziza Akhmouch, Stefano Marta, Delphine Clavreul, Marissa Plouin, Oriana Romano, Abel Schumann, Håkan Tropp and Paolo Veneri in the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities; Liwayway Adkins, Ana Fernandes, Nicolina Lamhauge, Naeeda Crishna Morgado and Cécilia Piemonte in the Development Co-operation Directorate; Guillaume Gruère, Gregor Slokan and Ronald Steenblik in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate; Michal Shinwell in the Statistics and Data Directorate; Luisa Dressler in the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration; Caitlyn Guthrie in the Directorate for Education and Skills; Laura Völker and Julie Habersetzer in the Council and Executive Committee Secretariat; and Laura Cozzi, Daly Hannah and Dave Turk of the International Energy Agency. We are grateful for their support and guidance. Comments by written procedure were invited from the Environment Policy Committee; the Development Assistance Committee, the Regional Development Policy Committee, the Working Party on Urban Policy, and the Members of the Water Governance Initiative. The chapter was also circulated to and discussed by the OECD’s Executive Committee [CE(2018)1].
Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 collect and present information from numerous sources, including OECD countries’ Voluntary National Reviews to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum, country responses to a survey on institutional mechanisms for policy coherence, OECD statistical databases and recent publications, and inputs from members of the Multi-stakeholder Partnership on Enhancing Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development. We are also grateful to Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, and Colin Bradford, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and Neil Martin, independent consultant, for their contributions to Chapter 5.
Finally, we would like to extend a big thank you to Amelia Smith and Anne-Lise Prigent for their editorial suggestions and oversight, and Audrey Garrigoux, Nandita Deshpande and Damian Garnys for their graphic content and production expertise. The report could not have been realised without their valuable guidance.