This report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director. The report was written by Heather Buisman, Marie Whelan and Antonis Stoufis, with the assistance of Joaquin Collao, Laura Corral and Gabriela Coddou, under the supervision of Piret Tõnurist, Claire Mc Evoy and Deniz Devrim. The work was conducted under the guidance of Marco Daglio, Head of the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation and Carlos Santiso, Head of the Innovation, Digital and Open Government Division. We extend our thanks to OECD colleagues who provided comments, including Toby Baker, Ignacio Paival, David Goessmann, Mauricio Mejia, Donal Mulligan, Egle Rimukte and Daniel Quadbeck.
This work would not be possible without the strong support of the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister’s Offices of Armenia, notably Viktorya Aydinyan, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Lilya Afrikyan, Open Government Agenda Coordinator and Project Manager. The OECD would also like to thank Harmick Azarian and Tsovinar Barseghyan for providing comments and contributing to the draft assessment. Furthermore, the OECD would like to thank the United Nations Development Programme SDG Innovation Lab of Armenia for their critical contributions to this project, notably, Nayiri Shorjian and Tigran Tshorokhyan.
This work was financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation through the project Democratic Institutions and Innovative Policy-Making in Armenia (DIPPA). The OECD would like to thank Hamazasp Danielyan, Senior National Programme Officer for Governance and Climate Change (SDC) for providing strategic guidance and steering on this project.