The Strategy is based on the lessons learned so far during Slovenia’s 12-year long membership of the OECD and focuses on Slovenia's interests and national development priorities, taking into account the vision and current guidelines of the Organisation. Its aim is to use benchmarking and good practices from OECD Member countries to support domestic reform processes to achieve the digital and green transformation and realise Slovenia's development potential.

The OECD's place in the global institutional architecture has been strengthened in recent years. The Organisation is a key platform for providing substantive support to the G20 and G7. While a number of global forums operate within OECD committees, the Organisation also provides substantive support to some of the key global initiatives: from the Paris Climate Agreement to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and from the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes to the Global Privacy Assembly and the Global Blockchain Policy Forum.

The experience of Slovenia's membership confirms that active involvement in OECD discussions and preparation of analyses and studies, as well as in reviews of good practices in OECD Member countries, is extremely useful in the preparation of national development and strategic plans and promotes Slovenia's positions in the EU.

Key strategic documents for the OECD's work are OECD: The vision for the next decade and the Strategic Orientation of the Secretary-General for 2023 and 2024, which respond to challenges including environmental and climate issues, accelerated digitalisation and demographic changes.

Slovenia's activities in the OECD are in accordance with the general orientations of its Foreign Policy Strategy and OECD values. They support Slovenia’s candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council 2024–2025 and are aligned with Slovenia's activities as a member of ECOSOC in the 2023–2025 period.

Slovenia's work in the OECD is guided by the objectives pursued in its core strategic documents, such as the Slovenian Development Strategy 2030, the goal of which is to ensure quality of life for all. It can be achieved by balanced economic, social and environmental development that takes into account the limitations and capabilities of the planet and creates conditions and opportunities for the current and future generations. At the individual level, quality of life means good opportunities for work, education and creativity, a dignified, safe and active life, a clean and healthy environment, and participation in democratic decision-making and co-governance of society.

The active participation of ministries, other institutions and the Permanent Representation of Slovenia to the OECD has helped to define the conditions for Slovenia’s successful functioning in the OECD, Slovenia’s positions on the fundamental institutional issues of the OECD (enlargement, budget and representation of Slovenian citizens in the Secretariat) and certain key areas for Slovenia's cooperation with the Organisation:  

• Strengthening competitiveness and productivity and a knowledge-based society to create quality jobs:  Slovenia's goal is to become one of the 20 most competitive countries in the world and one of the top 10 countries on the Human Development Index.  To this end, Slovenia participates in the OECD Productivity Forum. In the area of employment, it will pursue the target of a 79.5% labour force participation rate by 2030 and aims to improve the active employment policy model in cooperation with the OECD.
• Health: At the national level, Slovenia intends to introduce a number of changes at the legislative and systemic levels in order to build, in cooperation with OECD experts, a safe, high-quality and efficient health system focused on the well-being of patients. Furthermore, Slovenia will be included in the OECD-PaRIS project, which assesses the experiences and outcomes of patients with chronic non-communicable diseases in family medicine outpatient clinics.
• Energy and climate change: Slovenia, taking into account the challenges in the energy sector and the importance of the use of nuclear power, will actively work in the framework of the Nuclear Energy Agency. Agriculture plays a key role in the green transformation, an area where the activities of the OECD and the EU are closely linked. The OECD will be involved in the evaluation of challenges and opportunities in the European Common Agricultural Policy reforms for the 2023–2027 period, in which Slovenia is actively participating. In the economic sphere, too, there is a need to achieve integration in sustainable development. Slovenia is participating in the update of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.
• Digitalisation and demographic changes: Slovenia pursues the objective of digital transformation based on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, paying attention to gender equality and respect for the rights of older persons, and responding effectively to demographic changes. Slovenia will continue to strengthen its role in the regulation and ethical use of artificial intelligence. It continues to support the work of the OECD Artificial Intelligence Observatory based on the signed Memorandum of Cooperation. It will participate in the OECD Trust Survey and work with OECD experts to develop a sustainable public administration strategy to 2030 and to implement the digital transformation of the public administration.
• International taxation: Slovenia has traditionally been an active participant in the OECD, which plays an important role globally in promoting common standards of taxation in cooperation with national tax administrations, including on base erosion and profit shifting and taxation of the digital economy, and through the Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches.
• Development cooperation: Slovenia will conduct a peer review in 2024 and integrate OECD expertise into the strategic and normative planning of the development cooperation and humanitarian aid system.