Chili
The paper is the first in a series of two papers mapping young people’s environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries that were prepared as background for the forthcoming OECD Skills Outlook 2023 publication. The papers are the results of a collaboration between the OECD Centre for Skills and the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (Unit B4) on students’ environmental sustainability competence. The second paper is titled: ‘The environmental sustainability competence toolbox: From leaving a better planet to our children to leaving better children for our planet’.
This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical framework used to assess innovation skills and capabilities in Chile’s public sector and maps the institutional landscape for public sector innovation and human resource management. The analytical framework identifies three elements that public employees in Chile require: abilities, motivations and opportunities to contribute to innovation in their public organisations. Chile’s interest in building innovation capabilities in its public sector builds on decades of public sector modernisation initiatives. However, the complexity of governance challenges and low citizen trust in government institutions calls for new approaches to policy making and service delivery. The Laboratorio de Gobierno, along with the National Civil Service Directorate, are two important institutions with the potential to contribute to a more innovative Chilean public sector.
Chile has been growing in a sustained and relatively stable manner since the 1990s, thanks to effective macroeconomic management and its open economy. Today the Chilean model requires an “update” if it is to capture the gains offered by global technological and geopolitical changes and to meet the aspirations of its growing middle classes. Finding new sources of growth and broadening its economic base will be crucial for achieving shared prosperity. This chapter reviews Chile’s economic transformation and identifies four structural weaknesses that will need to be overcome to benefit from the window of opportunity opened in today’s global context.
Audit reports issued by Supreme Audit Institutions are key in generating impact, as they are the main vehicle through which audits can induce change in the public sector. As such, implementation rates of audit recommendations from audit reports are instrumental to achieve impact. This chapter provides a brief overview on the various factors that help explaining the implementation rate of audit recommendations before focusing in detail on relevant behavioural drivers of both auditors and auditees.
The management of water resources has important economic, environmental and social consequences for Chile. This chapter examines pressures and trends related to the country’s water resources, focusing on water quantity and quality, the impact of climate change, and the state of water and sanitation services. It subsequently analyses water strategies, river basin plans, and institutional arrangements. The chapter concludes with a discussion of policy instruments such as water allocation, water quality standards and regulations, data and information, economic instruments, and finance and investment for infrastructure. Throughout the chapter, good practices in other OECD member countries, such as Israel and Spain, are highlighted.
This chapter considers the nature and functions of Chilean tertiary institutions in the light of their history and evolution. It considers a range of issues, including which tertiary institutions should have the authority to award degrees; how the system as a whole is governed; and institutional governance and management, including the different governance models of public and private institutions.