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

Decarbonising buildings in cities and regions

Accounting for nearly a third of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions globally, buildings are key to the low carbon transition and green COVID-19 recovery. The objective of the survey is to collect information on the trends, data and policies regarding energy efficiency in buildings across cities and regions in co-operation with the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), contributing to an international compendium that will help unlock the potential for energy efficiency in buildings.

Complete the survey by 3 October 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

The Social and Solidarity Economy

This OECD Global Action conference will bring together practitioners, experts and policy makers to discuss new evidence on the role of social and solidarity economy organisations in rebuilding better, by raising their visibility and providing the tools to achieve social impact, and to learn more about the issues to consider when designing legal frameworks and measuring social impact.

13-16 September 2021
Virtual event

OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum

While distributed systems may eventually displace existing governance structures, they also offer an opportunity to strengthen and streamline them. The 4th edition of this Policy Forum will take a balanced assessment of blockchain’s use and potential in supporting global markets and the rules and norms that underpin them.

15 September-1 October 2021
Virtual event

Equity in education

Organised on the back of the release of the OECD's Education at a Glance 2021, the panel will ask the most pressing questions: How can we ensure that the COVID-19 crisis reshapes both our practices and attitudes toward education at all ages, for all career paths, and how can we create lasting solutions to address education inequities?

17 September 2021
3-4:30 pm (CEST)

OECD Youth Week

This series of engaging discussions will highlight the urgent need to invest in young people as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. We will debate the challenges they face in the world of work, learning, and civic engagement and how we can work with them towards a brighter future. No matter how old you are, this is a chance to have your say and interact with experts working on issues impacting young people!

20-24 September 2021
Virtual events

Roundtable on financing water

Mobilising finance and investment is central to accelerating the transition to net zero carbon emissions and to strengthening climate resilience. In the lead up to the UNFCCC COP 26, this thematic meeting of the Roundtable on Financing Water focused on driving climate action is being organised in partnership with the U.S. Government.

23-24 September 2021
Virtual event

Forum on Green finance and Investment

This 8th Forum will be on "Rethinking the global climate agenda in the decade for delivery". COP26 comes at a critical crossroads, and is hoped to significantly raise ambition and accelerate action. As net-zero commitments and pledges increase, will they be enough to achieve the unprecedented levels of global emission reductions needed?

11-14 October 2021
Virtual event

Government beyond recovery

How can recovery serve as a launchpad for better governance? This conference will explore public governance possibilities as the world emerges from a period of crisis. How can governments leverage behavioural insights, co-creation, regulation, mission-oriented innovation, anticipatory innovation and strategic foresight to steer towards better futures?

18-19 October 2021
Virtual event

Apprenticeships and greener economies

Symposium to explore the links between apprenticeships and the transition towards greener economies and societies, as well as the implications for policy-making. Apprenticeships can provide opportunities to develop the right skills for the green transition, both for young people in initial education and for adults in need of upskilling or reskilling.

21-22 October 2021
Virtual event

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How best to equip student for their working lives

Concern rises over youth unemployment. What schools can do to prepare young people for their transitions through education into ultimate employment? Using statistical analysis, it has proved possible to identify work-related indicators of career readiness: teenage attitudes and experiences related to futures in work.

27-29 October 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