The SIGI 2020 Regional Report for Latin America and the Caribbean was prepared by the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary General on Development and Bathylle Missika, Head of the Network, Partnerships and Gender Division. The Gender team was led by Hyeshin Park, Economist and Gender Programme Co‑ordinator, and the report was drafted by Pierre de Boisséson, Estelle Loiseau, Alejandra Meneses, Hyeshin Park and Gabrielle Woleske. The production of the report was co‑ordinated by Alejandra Meneses, Policy Analyst with the Gender Programme. The report was edited by Brenda O’Hanlon. Many thanks go to the OECD Development Centre’s Publications and Communications team, Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Aida Buendia and Irit Perry.
The OECD Development Centre is grateful for the strong and long-standing support of the SIGI from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The report benefitted from the financial support of the European Union through the Joint Project on Gender undertaken in the context of the EU Regional Facility for Development in Transition, led by the European Commission, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the OECD Development Centre.
The report benefited from insights from several OECD colleagues who contributed through their valuable comments. We would like to highlight the support of Gaëlle Ferrant (OECD), Elizabeth Holbourne (OECD), Lorenzo Pavone (OECD), Sarah Kups (OECD), Bathylle Missika (OECD) and Alessandro Goglio (OECD).
The report also benefitted from constructive inputs and updates by OECD Development Centre Member countries, in particular from Argentina (Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity and the Directorate of Women and Gender Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Brazil (Embassy of Brazil in France), Costa Rica (National Institute for Women) the Dominican Republic (Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development) and Mexico (National Institute for Women and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography).
The OECD Development Centre would also like to extend its gratitude to the members of the SIGI Technical Group: Fareda Banda, Shailaja Chandra, Jacques Charmes, Andrea Den Boer, Geske Dijkstra, Caroline Harper, Stefan Klasen, Inaki Permanyer and Amber Peterman. Particular thanks go to Professor Eduardo Zambrano, California Polytechnic State University, for revising the methodological framework in partnership with the OECD Development Centre’s Gender Team.
Finally, the OECD Development Centre expresses its thanks to colleagues within and outside the OECD who provided comments on the revised conceptual and methodological frameworks and on the SIGI country notes. The Centre also thanks the country profile authors and validators, as well as the SIGI National Focal Points. The full list of these individuals and institutions can be found at www.genderindex.org.