The SIGI 2019 report was prepared by the OECD Development Centre under the supervision and general guidance of Bathylle Missika. The report was co-ordinated by Gaëlle Ferrant who led the gender team: Léa Fuiret, Alejandra Meneses and Hien Vu. Additional support came from Laura Copete, Colm Foy, Elizabeth Nash, Wanda Ollis, Lorenzo Pavone, Linda Smiroldo Herda and Annelise Thim.
The OECD Development Centre would like to thank the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MoFA), the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, the French Development Agency (AFD), the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for their strong and long-standing support of the Social Institutions and Gender Index.
We would like to extend our thanks to the members of the SIGI Technical Group: Fareda Banda, Shailaja Chandra, Jacques Charmes, Andrea Den Boer, Geske Dijkstra, Caroline Harper, Stefan Klasen, Inaki Permanyer, and Amber Peterman. Particular thanks go to Professor Eduardo Zambrano, California Polytechnic State University, for revising the methodological framework in partnership with the OECD Development Centre’s Gender Team.
Our special thanks go to colleagues within and outside the OECD who provided comments on the revised conceptual and methodological frameworks and on the SIGI country notes. The Centre also expresses its gratitude to the country profile authors and validators, as well as the SIGI National Focal Points. The full list of these individuals and institutions can be consulted at www.genderindex.org.