The SIGI 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia was prepared by the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary General on Development and Bathylle Missika, Head of the Network, Partnerships and Gender Division. The Gender team was led by Hyeshin Park, Economist and Gender Programme Co-ordinator and the report was drafted by Pierre de Boisséson, Alejandra Meneses, Gabrielle Naumann-Woleske and Hyeshin Park. The production of the report was co-ordinated by Alejandra Meneses, Policy Analyst with the Gender Programme. The report was edited by Brenda O’Hanlon. Many thanks go to the OECD Development Centre’s Publication and Communications team, Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Mélodie Descours and Irit Perry.
The OECD Development Centre is grateful for the strong and long-standing support of the SIGI from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). This publication benefited from the financial support of the Korean Delegation to the OECD.
The report benefited from insights from several OECD colleagues who contributed through their valuable comments. We would like to highlight the support of Gaëlle Ferrant (OECD), Alessandro Goglio (OECD), Elizabeth Holbourne (OECD), Bathylle Missika (OECD) and Lorenzo Pavone (OECD). The report also benefited from constructive inputs and updates from the Philippine Commission on Women.
The OECD Development Centre would also like to extend its gratitude 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.
Finally, the OECD Development Centre expresses its thanks 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 thanks 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.