Good policy making for child well-being calls for government ministries, agencies
and other service providers to better collaborate and focus on a small number of key
child well-being issues.
"Integrated policy making for child well-being: Common approaches and challenges ahead"
takes stock of OECD countries’ recent initiatives to strengthen the integration of
child well-being policies. It documents OECD countries’ experiences of implementing
integrated policy plans for child well-being and child-specific policy tools, specifically
child indicator sets, child impact assessments and child budgeting. It lays out the
challenges facing countries as they work to push the child well-being policy agenda
forward and discusses what countries can do to become more effective.
Pursuing efforts to strengthen the integration of child well-being policies is costly.
Accordingly, it’s important for countries to proactively consider the arising challenges
and to look at options to overcome or avoid altogether the common pitfalls.
Published on July 18, 2023
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