WISE main accomplishments for ISQOLS award July 2025.pdf
- 1. OECD CENTRE ON WELL-BEING, INCLUSION, SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (WISE) CEREMONY FOR THE AWARD FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE HUMAN CONDITION 25 JULY 2025 ROMINA BOARINI, DIRECTOR
- 2. © OECD | 2 2 A few key facts about WISE… 30 partners 40K stakeholders 30 events per year 34 staff 15 nationalities 5 reports & 15 papers per year OUR MISSION Generate new evidence, tools and policy solutions to enhance: • People’s Well-being • Inclusion & Equal Opportunities • Sustainability
- 3. © OECD | REPORTS EVENTS 27 136 PAPERS DIGITAL 66 33 10 flagship reports 7 translated flagship reports 10 reports 13policy papers 32 working papers 21 policy insights briefs 1International Forum 14high-level launches 83conferences 23 internal events 15 expert groups, advisory boards & informal group meetings 15 web portals, platforms, dashboards & country note sets 18database updates WISE in numbers since its creation…
- 4. © OECD | WISE’s ecosystem Supporting governments and mobilising all sectors to foster meaningful partnerships 4 BV GOVERNMENTS BUSINESSES Society & Organizations (S&O) Institute High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (HLEG) ACADEMIA Member and partner countries, and more… Katsuiku Education Foundation CIVIL SOCIETY
- 5. © OECD | WISE’s journey so far… Statistical Legacy New Foundations for Policy New Challenges and Risks New Tools and Frameworks 2020 Established as a prominent hub for knowledge and expertise in WISE topics 2025
- 6. © OECD | • Redefining progress through well-being and equity metrics: the OECD longstanding contribution to the Beyond GDP, Inclusive Growth and 2030 agenda • Developing global measurement standards for dimensions of multidimensional well-being where statistical practices differ widely across countries • Improving the availability of WISE data Building on the legacy of data and statistics
- 7. © OECD | • Newly created: Working Party on Well-Being Statistics will build capacity for measuring multidimensional (people-centred) outcomes of economic and societal transformations (with 32 OECD countries, 5 non-members, and the EU) • Connecting dots on Beyond GDP within the international statistical community: ❖ Contribution to the UNECE Guidelines on Measurement of Well-Being ❖ Part of the UN Friends of Chair on Social and Demographic Statistics ❖ Support to the UN High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP ❖ Global Alliance on Beyond GDP – launched at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development Building on the legacy of data and statistics
- 8. © OECD | Establishing new foundations for policy Re-prioritise Re-design Re-align Re-connect Putting a Well-Being Lens to Policy
- 9. © OECD | Establishing new foundations for policy 960+ participants, including… • 100+ speakers • 330+ foreign participants from 54 countries In the news… 1100+ articles in 54 countries in 16 languages
- 10. © OECD | Addressing and foreseeing new challenges and risks for societies’ well-being – AI, tech and digital engagement FRAMING THE ISSUES: • Which aspects of people’s lives does the digital technology influence, and how and for whom? IDENTIFYING RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES: • Where is the “sweet break-even point” when benefits of digitalisation are maximised? How can positives become liabilities, compromising people’s well-being? MEASURING THE IMPACT: • How does the availability and use of new technologies influence different aspects of well-being? • How to gather insights from people on their lived experiences and perceptions on digital well-being? • How to identify and measure/estimate the impact of technology use on well-being?
- 11. © OECD | Addressing and foreseeing new challenges and risks for well-being – climate change Welfare growth Economic growth Economic damages National inequality contribution SSP 1 "Sustainability" 1.9 2.0 -0.3 0.2 SSP 2 "Middle of the road" 0.9 1.7 -0.9 0.1 SSP 3 "Regional rivalry" -1.1 0.7 -1.6 -0.2 SSP 4 "Inequality" 0.2 1.3 -1.0 -0.1 SSP 5 "Fossil-fuel" 1.5 2.6 -1.3 0.2 Source: OECD (2021), "The inequalities- environment nexus: Towards a people-centred green transition", OECD Green Growth Papers, No. 2021/01, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/ca9d8479-en How is climate change going to impact countries, and where should they invest? Assessing and mapping climate change impacts to identify most vulnerable groups and territories How to make the transition acceptable to all? How to best combine carbon pricing, environmental regulation, adaptation and innovation spending as well as social policies (redistribution), to reach emission targets and minimize socio-economic adverse effects (loss in competitiveness, distributional impacts) Map of 5-year damages in SSP5 Global welfare annual growth 2020-2100
- 12. © OECD | Pioneering and piloting new tools to respond to the emerging challenges: making policy reforms acceptable by design Case study: The 2023 French pension reform Relative importance of the different dimensions of the OECD Public Acceptability Tool in public debates (measured by the number of weekly media articles)
- 13. © OECD | Pioneering and piloting new tools to respond to the emerging challenges – mapping well-being in the workplace Content: ▪ Introduction to well-being ▪ Applications: impact management ▪ Employee well-being wheel ▪ Dimension-specific results Indicator lenses: ▪Averages ▪Vulnerabilities ▪Inequalities ▪+ Benchmarks with 4-company average
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