This presentation was made by Moritz ADER, OECD, at the OECD-MENA meeting dedicated to Budgeting for Societal Outcomes: Gender, Youth and Sustainable Development Goals Budgeting, held in Caserta, Italy, on 18-19 July 2019

1. Towards Youth Budgeting?
Evidence from the OECD
Moritz Ader, Policy Analyst, Public Governance Directorate

2. Key facts about youth in MENA
– Highest unemployment levels worldwide as a region
– Barriers to youth entrepreneurship (e.g. limited access to
financial means)
– Lack of trust among young people in government institutions
– Limited opportunities to shape policy priorities and outcomes
 MENA-OECD Governance Programme works with MENA countries on a
broader governance agenda
Relevance

3. Embedding mainstreaming tools into a whole-of-government strategy

4. Governance pillars for positive youth outcomes

5. Youth-sensitive budgeting is one among several governance
tools to mainstream youth concerns in policy making and
service delivery
– Youth checks
– Systematic youth engagement/consultation
– National youth laws
– Youth-sensitive budgeting
Mainstreaming tools

6. Proposed definition by OECD:
“integrate a clear youth perspective within the overall context of the
budget process, through the use of special processes and analytical tools,
with a view to promoting youth-responsive policies.”
(OECD Youth Stocktaking Report, 2018)
 It is not about promoting separate budgets for every sub-group in society
Youth-sensitive budgeting

7. • “Youth-sensitive budgeting” suggests that:
1. Budget information should be provided in a way young people can
access and understand it and hold government accountable
2. Opportunities exist for youth to shape public expenditure
decisions
3. Tools exists to analyse the “youth share”/ inter-generational
impact of public expenditures to ensure inter-generational equity
4. Programmes exist to foster financial education and financial
literacy among young people
Youth-sensitive budgeting

8. Evidence from the Youth Stocktaking Report
1. Youth-friendly budget information
Slovenia: using infographics on public expenditure to present the budget
in a youth-friendly way

9. Evidence from the Youth Stocktaking Report
2. Youth shaping public expenditure decisions
Portugal: First country-wide participatory youth budgeting initiative:
Orcamento Participativo Jovem Portugal (OPJP)

10. Evidence from the Youth Stocktaking Report
3. Analysing the inter-generational impact
Canada: Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)
presents expected inter-generational impacts

11. Evidence from the Youth Stocktaking Report
3. Analysing the child-share of public expenditures
Mexico: adopted a law introducing “child spending markers” to estimate and
create a baseline of government spending on children

12. 4. Financial education and financial literacy
OECD report on financial education in schools (2012): explains why and how
children should be prepared to take charge of their own financial future
Evidence from the OECD

13. • 52 participating countries
• Explores at global scale the performance of governments
and public administrations in delivering deliver youth-
responsive policies and services
The way forward: OECD Youth Governance Survey

14. • Budget-related questions:
– Share of annual public budget going to
ministry in charge of (coordinating) youth
affairs
– Share of budget available for national
youth strategy
– Budget actually used for youth policies
and services - depends on institutional
structure of ministry
– Cases of participatory budgeting targeting
youth
The way forward: OECD Youth Governance Survey

15. https://www.oecd.org/gov/
youth-stocktaking-
report.pdf
OECD data collection exercises

16. Moritz.Ader@oecd.org
http://www.oecd.org/mena/governance/promoting-youth-inclusion-and-empowerment/
Thank you