This report was prepared by the Public Governance Directorate (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, and the direction of Jón Blöndal, Head of GOV’s Public Management and Budgeting (PMB) Division and Andrew Blazey, Deputy Head of Division. It was co‑ordinated by Sara Fyson, Senior Policy Analyst, Lead Centres of Government in PMB, and drafted by Sara Fyson, Daniel Gerson, Senior Policy Analyst, Ivan Stola, external consultant and Taylor Tang, junior policy analyst. Alana Baker, Policy Analyst, provided valuable contributions to the workshops in Estonia and Portugal. We would like to also gratefully acknowledge the inputs and comments provided by colleagues across the Public Governance Directorate including Andrew Blazey, Victor Lucy, Ricardo Zapata, Sarah Kups, Daniel Trnka, Donal Mulligan, Ernesto Soria Morales, Moritz Ader, Martins Krievins and Stéphane Jacobzone.
This publication was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument (TSI). The OECD acknowledges the excellent co‑operation throughout with Mina Sholeykova, Unit A4 Governance and Public Administration, Reform and Investment Task Force (SG Reform).
The authors would like to thank the representatives of the centres of government of all six participating countries for their leadership and engagement throughout this project and all participants in the project implementation for their insights. We would like to thank in particular: Milena Andreeva and Denitsa Goleva (Bulgaria), Ott Karulin and Marten Lauri (Estonia), Evi Dramalioti, Elisavet Kousina, Markella Stamou and Nana Filosidou (Greece), Elizabeth Canavan, Barry Vaughan and Anna Visser (Ireland), Dagmir Długosz, Piotr Gierlach, Mikołaj Stęszewski, Łukasz Świetlikowski, Jarosław Żukowski (Poland), and Pedro Saraiva, Maria Fernandes, Andre Ferreira and Tania Parreira (Portugal) for their valuable contributions throughout the implementation of the project. The authors would also like to thank the representatives from the Slovak Republic as observers to the project and in particular Valeria Bankoova, Kvetoslav Kmec and Peter Minarik. The OECD also gratefully acknowledges the contributions of peers who made themselves available at various points in the project to present their systems, challenges and tools including from Australia, Finland, Latvia, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
This report benefited from editorial assistance and was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik. It has been shared for comments with the OECD Public Governance Committee.