Multi-level Governance, Public Investment and Subnational Finance
We help governments design adaptive multi-level governance systems and innovative finance tools, foster partnerships, and ensure more effective public investment outcomes, including to meet climate objectives in regions and cities.
Did you know?
OECD subnational governments are responsible for 57% of total public investment and 40% of total public expenditure.
Areas of Work
Project Highlights
Making Decentralisation Work: A Handbook for Policy-makers
The OECD identifies 10 guidelines for making decentralisation work. In addition, the report proposes concrete tools for policy-makers, including detailed sets of recommendations, checklists, pitfalls to avoid and examples of good practices in unitary and federal countries.
OECD Recommendation on Effective Public Investment across Levels of Government
The outcomes of public investment largely depend on how it is managed. The OECD developed the Recommendation with 12 Principles for Action to support all levels of governments deliver public investment for regional development. To date, 39 countries have adhered to this Recommendation. The OECD regularly monitors how countries are implementing these Principles.
Recommendation | Online Toolkit | Monitoring Report | Implementation brochure
Rethinking Regional Development Policy-making
This report identifies cross-cutting lessons to help policy-makers manage common trade-offs when designing public expenditure and investment programmes for the development of regions and cities. It brings together frontier economic theory and country practices and creating and implementing performance frameworks, financial instruments, policy conditionalities, contractual arrangements and behavioural insights for regional policy.
Country/Region Reviews
Key publications
Activities
Events
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Expert Group Webinar: Tracking and Measuring Subnational Climate Finance 13 October, 2021, 15:30-17:30 (CEST) This expert group webinar (virtual) will gather subnational government representatives, international partners and climate finance stakeholders engaged in tracking and measuring subnational climate finance worldwide. The event consists of two sessions featuring keynote presentations from the OECD followed by roundtable discussions to discuss the preliminary findings of the project. |
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Trust in Government: Understanding its Territorial Divides: 7 July, 2021 (Virtual) On 7 July 2021, the OECD organised this webinar, which brought together experts from around the world to build the knowledge base and promote international dialogue on
The Webinar explored whether local characteristics and socio-economic conditions can influence trust in government, as well as the role of place-based policies and multi-level governance mechanisms in addressing the underlying determinants of trust and mistrust. |
First Pilot Meeting on Multi-level Governance and Public Investment for Regional Development 17 November, 2020 (Virtual) This Pilot Meeting gathered representatives and experts from 30 countries and international organisations to discuss how multi-level governance instruments or reforms can support recovery across levels of government and help generate more resilient territorial development post-COVID-19. |
Partnerships with other organisations
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OECD and European Committee of the Regions (CoR) The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the OECD conducted a survey in June/July 2020: The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on regional and local governments: governance, finance and recovery plans, carried out among representatives of subnational governments of the European Union. Answers were received from 300 subnational government respondents representing 24 countries. |
OECD and United Cities and Local Government (UCLG) SNG-WOFI was launched in November 2017, as a joint endeavour of the OECD and UCLG. This initiative is the world’s leading source of internationally comparable data and analysis on subnational government structure and finance, covering over 120 countries and territories. |
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