The report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV) under the leadership of Marcos Bonturi, as part of the work programme of the Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division, headed by Martin Forst.
The report was prepared under the strategic direction of Stephane Jacobzone, Head of Unit for Evidence, Monitoring and Policy Evaluation. Iván Stola, policy analyst, and Claire Salama, junior policy analyst, co-ordinated the report. Emma Cantera, policy analyst, and Lizeth Fúquene, drafted the first chapter. Iván Stola and Simon Schmitz, junior policy analyst, drafted the second chapter on the institutional underpinnings. Claire Salama drafted the third chapter on promoting quality and use with inputs from Anne-Pauline de Cler. General support was provided by Diego Millan, Shashwat Koirala, Jaylia Yan and Naoki Usuda.
The report was prepared following a data collection exercise, with a survey initiated by Eva Beuselinck, Head of Unit at the time, together with Iván Stola and Simon Schmitz. The survey also benefited from valuable comments from Daniel Acquah, Rebecca Schultz, as well as inputs from Alessandro Lupi, Zsuzsanna Lonti, Daniel Gerson and Santiago Gonzalez from the Public Governance Directorate. Claire Salama and Simon Schmitz conducted the quality assurance process of the data. The team would like to thank officials from Belgium and Mexico who helped to pilot the survey. The authors are also grateful to all the country representatives who participated in the survey and who provided valuable feedback on the data collected through the quality assurance process.
This report benefitted from insights and comments on the conceptual and methodological framework, and on the analysis from many experts, colleagues and country officials. In particular, the authors would like to thank all the participants and experts who took part in an expert meeting in September 2019 which reviewed preliminary results. The report also benefitted from the roundtable organised in the context of the Senior Budget Officials Network on Performance and Results, including Aline Pennisi and Alessandra de Lellis, Ministry of Finance Italy, Christine Minas from the Treasury Board Secretariat Canada. The authors are also grateful to Stephan Naundorff, Federal Chancellery Germany, Chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee, and to Diana Epstein, US Office of Management and Budget for their participation in the Public Governance Committee’s discussion in November 2019. At the OECD, the report benefitted from valuable insights from Christiane Arndt, Pauline Bertrand, Andrew Blazey, Monica Brezzi, Julio Bacio Terracino, Mariana Prats, Bagrat Tunyan, Barbara Ubaldi, Gregor Virant, Benjamin Welby in the Public Governance Directorate.