OECD has released the Strategic Foresight Toolkit for Resilient Public Policy, designed to help policymakers anticipate and navigate future challenges and opportunities.

By exploring 25 potential disruptions across environmental, technological, economic, social, and geopolitical domains, the Toolkit equips governments with a practical, five-step foresight methodology to challenge assumptions, create scenarios, stress-test strategies, and develop future-ready policies. It includes facilitation guides, case studies, and actionable insights to support resilience in an uncertain world.

In this webinar, OECD together with the Government of Flanders will launch the blueprint for strategic foresight and discuss with experts on how other public organisations can also integrate strategic foresight into their systems.

Across OECD countries, strategic foresight has become an essential approach for governments to better anticipate and prepare for complex and volatile policy contexts and build resilience in policymaking. Strategic foresight helps to create shared goals, reframe policy issues, act as an early warning system, stress-test current policies and innovate for better policy outcomes.

Over the course of 2022-2023 OECD worked together with the Government of Flanders to assess its strategic foresight capacity. As the result of the work OECD co-designed a blueprint for strategic foresight for the Government of Flanders. The blueprint sets a strategic direction to integrate strategic foresight into policymaking through specific actions, new roles and functions in government.

In this webinar, OECD together with the Government of Flanders will launch the blueprint and discuss with experts on how other public organisations can also integrate strategic foresight into their systems.