The report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), headed by Elsa Pilichowski. It was developed under the strategic direction of Martin Forst, Head of the Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division in GOV, and of Miriam Allam, Deputy Head of Division.
The report was led by Moritz Ader, who co-ordinates the OECD’s work on Youth Empowerment and Intergenerational Justice, and co-authored by Ollin Pérez-Raynaud (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, and contributions to Chapter 3), Gamze Igroglu and Aysegul Bayar (contributions to Chapter 2 and 3), Karen Smith and Patrick Lee (contributions to Chapters 4 and 5), as well as Giulia Morando, Cindy Boreillo, and Fabian Keske in the Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Goals Division in GOV (Chapter 7 and contributions to Chapter 1 and 8). Other co-authors include Grainne Dirwan and Olivier Thevenon from the Child Well-Being Unit in the Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) who prepared Chapter 6, and contributed to Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 7. Finally, Veerle Miranda and Martina García Aisa from the Social Policy Division in the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) provided contributions to Chapters 1, 3, 7, and 8. Ciara Muller with support from Francesca Romani prepared the manuscript for publication and conducted quality control.
The report benefitted from comments of colleagues from the OECD Public Governance Directorate, including Andrea Uhrhammer (Director’s Office), Misha Kaur (Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division), Tatyana Teplova (Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Goals Division), and Daniel Trnka (Regulatory Policy Division).
The OECD would like to thank European Commission’s DG REFORM for its financial support and guidance throughout the project, in particular Elisa Gomez Aleman. The Secretariat would also like to acknowledge the excellent collaboration with Bryan Patten and Clare Farrell from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in Ireland, which has been instrumental to the success of this project and report. The report has also greatly benefited from the information, assessments and feedback received from many stakeholders in Ireland, in particular representatives from government departments including the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Social Protection, the Department of Education, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, the Department of Health, the Department of Justice, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Department of Rural and Community Development, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The OECD also wishes to express its gratitude to representatives from agencies including Tusla – the Child and Family Agency, the Health Service Executive (HSE), an Garda Síochána and the Central Statistics Office. The report also benefited from inputs from sub-national government bodies including Local Community Development Committees, Local Authorities and the Children and Young People’s Services Committees (CYPSC). Feedback also was received from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office, the National Economic and Social Council, Irish experts in social, legal, and economic protection for children and young people, and non-governmental associations working with children and young people.
The co-authors would also like to express gratitude to the Child Wellbeing and Poverty Reduction Group, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in New Zealand, the National Child Strategy Unit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland, and the Sub-Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Policies and Institute of Youth of the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 of Spain for sharing good practices and lessons learned as peers, which have informed this report.
This report was reviewed by the Public Governance Committee [as document GOV/PGC(2024)6] and by the Working Party on Social Policy of the Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs Committee [as document WISE/ELSA/WP1(2024)1] on 22 March 2024 and prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat.