Civil society

Let's work together for better lives

At the OECD, we believe that engaging with civil society helps improve our policy recommendations and our impact on society.

Governments and policymakers are accountable to a wide array of policy shapers, including civil society. With its subject-matter expertise and field experience, civil society brings vital knowledge to help advance policy change.

As public participation, civic engagement, activism and mobilisation evolve, we aim to provide spaces for dialogue, and avenues for civil society contributions.

How to engage with us

Contribute

The OECD regularly organises public consultations and other calls for contribution, but also asks for your opinion through campaigns and surveys.

Contribute

Participate

Civil society organisations are welcome to join our many conferences, meetings and workshops as well as webinars.

Participate

Explore

The OECD provides analysis through reports and data, but also a variety of tools allowing to help you support your work.

Explore

Contribute to our consultations

Youth-led social enterprises

Youth-led social enterprises can play an important role in providing youth with job opportunities while enabling them to have an impact on society and the way we do business. The OECD is looking for best practice examples of successful youth-led social enterprises and policies supporting them.

Complete the survey by 30 November 2021

Adult learning in cities

Labour markets are changing. How is adult learning in cities preparing individuals, firms and local economies for this challenge? In collaboration with partners, the OECD is collecting examples of innovative adult learning programmes in cities to support policies.

Share your stories by 31 December 2021

Empower students around climate action

Transforming how our next generation thinks and acts about the environment and the world requires profound changes in teaching and learning. How can we empower students in our classrooms and school to have a real voice and an active role in this pressing issue for our future?

Share your initiatives and projects

Innovative government responses to COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis has kick-started a need for new approaches. Governments are working hard to rally resources and unify experts from across all sectors toward a common goal. We are issuing a call out to gather innovative, digital and open government solutions, projects and initiatives.

Submit your ideas

Past consultations

Public consultations and calls for input now closed that have taken place since 2014 are listed for ease of reference.

Access past public consultations

Participate in our events

Launch of the OECD Economic Outlook

Follow the press conference for the launch of the Economic Outlook with OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann and Chief Economist Laurence Boone who will present the latest analysis and projections for the world economy, OECD member countries and key partners, as well as G20 countries .

1 December 2021
11 am (CET)

Watch

Energy Efficiency Hub Launch

15 countries and the European Commission, representing over 60% of global primary energy use, have together founded the Energy Efficiency Hub as a platform for global collaboration to pursue energy efficiency solutions, informing Members’ policy-making and communicating emerging best practices.

1 December 2021
12-13:30 pm (CET)

Business for Youth Roundtable

This Roundtable by Business at OECD (BIAC) will showcase why there is a business case for youth, highlighting specific initiatives its member organizations and companies have taken to address the youth challenge, and their policy takeaways. Participants will also explore the role the OECD could play in this field going forward.

2 December 2021
2-3:30 pm (CET)

Global Forum on Competition

Competition can be a powerful force for economic development, growth and productivity. Both competition and trade policies can play a role in harnessing competition for these purposes, but the interaction between the two is not often considered. This 20th anniversary's edition will be on Trade, development and competition.

6 December 2021
Day 1 open to the public

Watch

Technology in and for society

How can we innovate both more and well for inclusive transitions? The conference seeks to develop a policy agenda to pair the transformative potential of emerging technology with the necessity of good governance and to explore values and design principles for leveraging good governance for critical sociotechnical transformations.

6-7 December 2021
Virtual event

Well-being and mental health

The conference will explore the interrelationships between mental health and people’s economic, social, environmental and relational well-being, taking stock of existing work on the social determinants of population mental health, considering measurement challenges and examining lessons learned from integrated policy approaches so far.

6-9 December 2021
Online conference

Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Second OECD Ministerial Summit on Governance of the Regional Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean will focus on rebuilding public trust during, and in the aftermath of, COVID-19: "Government Integrity and Citizen Trust".

8-10 December 2021
Virtual event

Evidence for action against corruption

The OECD Public Integrity Indicators (OECD PII) establish a new OECD benchmark for government resilience to corruption risks and for strengthening public integrity. Based on primary data sources and validated by governments, the OECD PII will help bolster global efforts against corruption.

9 December 2021
11:30-12:30 pm (CET)

A labour market that works for all

How to move beyond the COVID-19 crisis and build back an inclusive labour market? The policy forum will focus on changes in the workplace in a post-pandemic world, as well as the opportunities and challenges posed by progress in the field of artificial intelligence and their interaction with the labour market.

13-14 December 2021
Virtual event

Explore our new tools

Tackling coronavirus (COVID-19)

The OECD is compiling data, information, analysis and recommendations regarding the health, economic, financial and societal challenges posed by the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Please visit our dedicated page for a full suite of coronavirus-related information.

Browse the COVID-19 Hub

Compare your income

This updated web tool allows you to see whether your perception is in line with reality, where you fit in your country's income distribution and how it impacts your willingness to support redistribution initiatives. It also allows you to help your government align its COVID-19 recovery strategy.

Share your priorities for public spending

Country Policy Tracker

What are countries doing to contain the spread of the coronavirus? How are countries helping people, small businesses and the economy to weather the crisis and beyond? New initiatives also allow you to track specifically tax, health as well as science and innovation policies by country.

Navigate the global response

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Observatory

AI could have good and bad effects on our lives. OECD.AI helps encourage, nurture and monitor the responsible development of trustworthy AI systems for the benefit of society. It provides multidisciplinary, evidence-based policy analysis and facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue.

Shape AI public policy

Going Digital Toolkit

How can we realise the immense promises of digital technologies and data for growth and well-being in a fast evolving world? This Going Digital toolkit helps countries assess their state of digital development and formulate policy strategies and approaches in response.

Explore by countries, dimensions and themes

#ClimateAction for better lives

Acting now means we can improve our health, well-being and prosperity. By focusing on 5 sectors, we can tackle up to 90% of emissions. We have the knowledge and the tools to make it happen. We have the financial resources. It’s time to deliver on climate commitments.

25 actions that can get us on track by 2025

PISA test with 2018 reading questions

Some 600,000 students completed the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018, representing about 32 million 15-year-olds in the schools of the 79 participating countries and economies.

Take the PISA test yourself