This report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, Gillian Dorner, Deputy Director and Janos Bertok, Deputy Director. The development of this report has been led by Tatyana Teplova, Head of Division, OECD Public Governance Directorate, and Maaike de Langen, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Partnership, Inclusion and Justice Division.
The report was drafted by Maaike de Langen (chapters 1-4), Mark Weston (chapters 1-4), Melina Buckley (chapters 2-4), and Nick O’Brien (chapter 5). It benefitted from significant research support and drafted input from Cindy Boreillo, Marianna Stepanian, Alisa Jimenez, Anna-Sophie Kloppe, and Mariane Piccinin Barbieri. The report was edited by Mark Weston and coordination and editorial support was provided by Ciara Muller.
This publication builds on many years of research, analysis, peer learning and policy dialogue on public governance, trust in public institutions, access to justice and people-centred justice by the OECD and its members and partner countries, in the context of the Public Governance Committee, in the justice network and beyond. Special appreciation is due to the Members of the OECD Advisory Group on Access to Justice, as well as to all those who contributed to the 2024 OECD Global Roundtable on Access to Justice in Canada, for their ongoing engagement and support.
The OECDs work on justice and the rule of law benefits immensely from fruitful exchanges and productive collaboration with many partners, including the African Alliance for People-Centred Justice, the Council of Europe (in particular the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ)), COMJIB, the European Union (in particular the Reform and Investment Task Force (SG REFORM)), HiiL, the Ibero-American Justice Alliance, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures at the University of Strathclyde, the Justice Action Coalition, the Justice Data Observatory, the Mott Foundation, ODI Global, the Open Government Partnership, the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Bank, and the World Justice Project.
Additional thanks goes to our colleagues from the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV) for their valuable inputs and support: Miriam Allam, Sofia Blamey Andrusco, Matthieu Cahen, Marco Daglio, Maria Pascual Dapena, Paul Davidson, James Drummond, Renan Barbosa Fernandes, Jesper Johnson, Sarah Kups, Elizabeth Manning, Seong Ju Park, Pelagia Patsoule, Franciszek Ploch, Arnault Pretet, Mario Restuccia, Daniel Trnka, Andrea Uhrhammer, and of course, all colleagues of the Global Partnerships, Inclusion and Justice Division.