The Government of Ireland will this week (September 28th to 30th) host the 13th OECD Rural Development Conference 2022 on the theme of Building Sustainable, Resilient, and Thriving Rural Places.
The Conference will bring more than 400 delegates including Ministers, policy-makers, and practitioners from right across the OECD region to Ireland to consider the theme of ‘Building Sustainable, Resilient and Thriving Rural Places’.
It is the first time that Ireland has hosted such a conference and follows on from the publication of the Government’s rural development policy, Our Rural Future.
As the OECD Member States contend with multiple policy challenges, Ireland will welcome the in-person participation of Ministers, senior policymakers and civil society for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of rural places.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 38 Member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
It is a forum of countries committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices, and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members.
The OECD Rural Conference is a high-profile international policy and political forum for OECD Member countries to discuss rural development in a holistic manner, with each conference having a specific thematic focus. The OECD has organised 12 conferences thus far, most recently in Korea in 2019 which focused on Rural Well-being.
The Conferences typically attract in the region of 300 delegates with target participants being Ministers and other senior policy-makers from OECD member and partner countries, as well as practitioners from national, regional, and local levels, international experts, and representatives from the private sector and from civil society.