The SIGI 2019 Regional Report for Eurasia was prepared by the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of, and with contributions from Bathylle Missika and Lorenzo Pavone. The report was co-ordinated by Gaëlle Ferrant, in collaboration with the OECD Development Centre Gender team: Laura Copete, Léa Fuiret and Alejandra Meneses. Additional support came from Mary Bortin, Linda Smiroldo Herda, Habib Karamoko, Elizabeth Nash and Wanda Ollis.
The OECD Development Centre would like to thank the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MoFA), 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 SIGI.
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 found at www.genderindex.org.