This report was prepared in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) under the senior leadership of Stefano Scarpetta (Director of ELS), Mark Pearson (Deputy Director of ELS), and Monika Queisser (Senior Counsellor of ELS and Head of the Social Policy Division). Valerie Frey (Senior Economist, Social Policy Division) co-ordinated the report.
The report was written by Valerie Frey, Maja Gustafsson, and Nancy Napolitano. Dorothy Adams and Hlöðver Hákonarson made valuable contributions, including in questionnaire implementation and data collection.
Natalie Corry, Lucy Hulett, Jayne Maddock, Eva Rauser, Hanna Varkki, and Alastair Wood were instrumental in formatting the report for publication and supporting its dissemination.
This report was generously financed by a voluntary contribution from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)). The authors are grateful to BMFSFJ, State Secretary Juliane Seifert, Ambassador Michaela Spaeth, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS)), and many helpful colleagues in the German government who contributed to this report.
The authors would like to thank the following reviewers for their valuable suggestions and comments on different sections of the report: Willem Adema, Ariane Aumaitre, Alana Baker, Ali Bargu, Eliana Barrenho, Carolin Beck, Pierre de Boisséson, Christopher Clarke, Grainne Dirwan, Pinar Guven, Philip Haywood, Capucine Kerboas, Chloé Lelievre, Ana Llena Nozal, Réka Mihácsi, Bathylle Missika, Hyeshin Park, Valentina Patrini, Mark Pearson, Marissa Plouin, Mariana Prats, Monika Queisser, Stefano Scarpetta, Meeta Tarani, Tatyana Teplova, Olivier Thévenon, and Doron Wijker.
The authors are grateful for the questionnaire responses and helpful feedback provided by the many Delegates in the OECD Employment Working Party for Social Policy (WPSP), the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee (ELSAC), and the OECD Working Party on Gender Mainstreaming and Governance (GMG).
Finally, the authors thank Pascale Franck and Bert Groen of the European Family Justice Center Alliance (EFJCA), Charlotte Kneer of the organisation “I Choose Freedom”, and the many non-governmental service providers who gave generously of their time to participate in the non-governmental consultation informing this report. Their advocacy and support of victims/survivors are crucial to ensuring that, one day, intimate partner violence will finally end.