This report is published by the Public Governance Directorate (GOV) of the OECD under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance, and overall supervision of Tatyana Teplova, Senior Counsellor for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness and Head of the Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Goals Division in GOV.
The report was co-ordinated by Giulia Morando and drafted by Kenza Ben Azouz. Contributions were provided by Giulia Morando, Réka Mihácsi, and Capucine Kerboas. The report benefitted from the comments of colleagues from the OECD Public Governance Directorate (Miriam Allam, Amira Tlili, and Guillaume Biganzoli), the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (Valerie Frey and Maja Gustafsson), and the OECD Development Centre (Hyeshin Park, Carolin Beck, and Estelle Loiseau). Editorial assistance and administrative support were provided by Melissa Sander and Luís Dias de Carvalho.
The OECD is grateful to public officials from the governments of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, and Tunisia for their participation to the OECD 2022 Survey on Strengthening Governance and Victim/survivor-centric Approaches to end Violence Against Women (VAW) in MENA Countries, their ongoing co-operation with the OECD, and their feedback on this report.
The OECD extends its sincerest thanks to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for its financial support to the project. In particular, the Organisation is grateful to Ambassador Luca Sabbatucci, Co-Chair of the MENA-OECD Governance Programme and Permanent Representative of Italy to the OECD.