Session 1 of the virtual event series on Implementing a well-being approach to policy and international partnerships in Latin America, 28-30 June 2022, More information at: https://www.oecd.org/wise/lac-well-being-metrics.htm

1. Implementing a well-
being approach to policy
and international
partnerships
Sebastián Nieto Parra
 Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit, OECD
(Development Centre)
Katherine Scrivens
 Policy Analyst and Project Manager, OECD Centre for Well-
being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE)

2. Implementing a well-being
approach to policy and
international partnerships
Virtual event series
28-30 JUNE 2022
Sebastian Nieto-Parra
Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit, OECD
(Development Centre)
Katherine Scrivens
Policy Analyst and Project Manager, OECD Centre for
Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal
Opportunity (WISE)

3. Implementing a well-
being approach to
policy and international
partnerships
Virtual event series
28-30 JUNE 2022
Sebastian Nieto-Parra
Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit,
OECD (Development Centre)
Katherine Scrivens
Policy Analyst and Project Manager, OECD
Centre for Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability
and Equal Opportunity (WISE)

4. There is a need to adopt a multidumensional approach
to responde to structural challenges aggravated by the
COVID-19 crisis and the invasion of Ukraine
Poverty increased by 3p.p. in
2020 to 34%. Similarly,
inequality increased by 2.9%.
Most jobs created in the
incipient recovery are
informal
Business closures and job
losses have led to lower
potential material conditions
Social discontent remains
high and satisfaction with
public services deteriorated
with Covid-19
This crisis brings with an
opportunity to reinvent a
development model that
incorporates sustainability
criteria
Source: OCDE et al. (2019), Latin American Economic Outlook 2019: Development in Transition, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/g2g9ff1a-es.

5. OECD reports series
2011
2020
2019-2021
2008
2021
How’s Life?
Measuring well-being
Latin American
Economic Outlook

6. The OECD Well-being Framework (adapted
to LAC priorities)
• Focuses on people (i.e. individuals and
households), their situation and how
they relate to others in the community
where they live and work.
• Concentrates on both current well-being
outcomes and the resources
underpinning well-being in the future
(sustainability).
• Considers vertical and horizontal
inequalities across well-being
dimensions.
• Looks at both objective and
subjective aspects of well-being.
• Aggregate at society level
• Do not tell much about future sustainability
• Do not tell much about inequalities
• Do not tell much about subjective aspects
Traditional
metrics
= material conditions = quality of life

7. Over three years, the project has provided a platform for dialogue
between international stakeholders, national governments, statistical offices,
planning agencies, and experts:
• International Conference on the Policy Uses of Well-being and
Sustainable Development Indicators in LAC
23 - 24 October 2019, Bogota, Colombia
• Towards a Comprehensive Measurement of Well-being: Series of invited
lectures, 26 June – 31 July 2020
26 de June- 31 July 2020
• Webinar series: Measuring people's perceptions, evaluations and experiences
September - October 2020
• Putting well-being at the heart of policymaking in LAC, Development in
Transition: Dialogues to chart new paths for LAC
7 July 2021
• Launch of the final report “How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring well-being
for policy making”
28 october 2022
Much more than just a report to
measure well-being…
Project Website: https://www.oecd.org/wise/lac-well-being-metrics.htm

8. Embedding a multidimensional approach
to every stage of the policy cycle
Source: OECD (2021), How’s Life in Latin America?: Measuring Well-being for Policy Making, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/2965f4fe-en.

9. Next steps: how to implement the new
well-being measurement approaches
From dashboards to decision-making: adapting complex
information on well-being for policy use
As well-being approaches for informing decisions making have a greater
breadth in policy analysis, they need to minimise complexity.
Tuesday 28
June 2022

10. Next steps: how to implement the new
well-being measurement approaches
From dashboards to decision-making: adapting complex
information on well-being for policy use
As well-being approaches for informing decisions making have a greater
breadth in policy analysis, they need to minimise complexity.
Tuesday 28
June 2022
Linking well-being evidence across the policy cycle and
across different timeframes: from long-term vision to
planning to budgeting and action
Connecting steps in the policy process: aligning budgeting and resource
allocation with long- and medium-term planning priorities.
Wednesday 29
June 2022

11. Next steps: how to implement the new
well-being measurement approaches
From dashboards to decision-making: adapting complex
information on well-being for policy use
As well-being approaches for informing decisions making have a greater
breadth in policy analysis, they need to minimise complexity.
Tuesday 28
June 2022
Linking well-being evidence across the policy cycle and
across different timeframes: from long-term vision to
planning to budgeting and action
Connecting steps in the policy process: aligning budgeting and resource
allocation with long- and medium-term planning priorities.
Wednesday 29
June 2022
Thursday 30
June 2022
Exploring the potential of well-being metrics for supporting
new international partnerships
An opportunity for broadening the range of metrics for informing
transformative global partnerships.

12. Implementing a well-being approach to policy
and international partnerships
Virtual event series
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Katherine.SCRIVENS@oecd.org
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