Publications & Documents

OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains

As the demand for food increases, agriculture will continue to attract investment and new actors may be confronted with ethical dilemmas and find it difficult to implement responsible business conduct in their practices. In this context the OECD and the FAO are working together to develop due diligence guidance to help enterprises observe existing widely-supported standards for RBC along agricultural supply chains.

Fostering Business Development and Digitalisation in Georgia

Conference: Investment treaties, the Paris Agreement and Net Zero - Towards alignment?

11/04/23 - The eighth annual OECD Investment Treaty Conference addressed investment treaties and the climate crisis, a defining challenge for government policy makers and our societies.

2023 Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains

The 16th Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains is hosted by the OECD as a hybrid event on 24-28 April 2023 and brings together representatives from government, business, and civil society.

OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum

30 March-1 April 2022 - This OECD-hosted forum is the premium annual public event on integrity and anti-corruption worldwide. The 2022 edition will explore the unique challenges provoked by the COVID-19 crisis and how stakeholders across all policy communities can fight corruption and reinforce trust and integrity in multiple domains.

Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector

Adopted in 2017, the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector establishes a common understanding of due diligence in the sector to help companies meet the due diligence expectations laid out in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

Designing and delivering public services in the digital age

OECD and the Blue Dot Network

The Blue Dot Network is an initiative founded by the United States, Australia and Japan to promote the quality infrastructure investment vital to support sustainable growth and a resilient economic recovery. The OECD Trust in Business Initiative promotes the implementation of internationally recognised standards and best practices for quality infrastructure investment by providing technical support to the Blue Dot Network.

The Blue Dot Network: A proposal for a global certification framework for quality infrastructure investment

21 March 2022 - The Blue Dot Network represents an innovative solution to help mobilise private sector investment by identifying and encouraging market-driven, transparent and sustainable infrastructure projects. This document presents an evidence-based proposal for a credible, efficient, transparent and sustainable certification framework that can provide a basis for operationalising the Blue Dot Network.

The OECD proposes a prototype for the Blue Dot Network to operationalise quality infrastructure projects

The OECD has released a proposal for a prototype of the Blue Dot Network certification framework for infrastructure projects that are economically, environmentally and socially sustainable, resilient, open and transparent.