Publication archive

What is your experience with innovation? What questions or need do you have? Download Brenton Caffin’s presentation to read how can governments better enable innovation to fuel growth and societal wellbeing.

We need to maximise collaboration between public servants and academics in evidence-based policy making. The conversation tracker is about how Paul Cairney discussed ways to encourage greater use of research evidence in policy through greater

The EngageTech Forum was an interactive event designed to help government staff understand the spectrum of technologies available for community consultation and stakeholder engagement both online and offline.

Carl Billington from IPANZ takes a closer look at the convention of free and frank advice, why it matters to both ministers and public servants, and what it means for the future.

To what extent can and should public servants expect their advice to ministers to remain confidential, ask Andrew Kibblewhite and Peter Boshier in a co-authored article in the May Policy Quarterly.

Ministry for the Environment staff have initiated the Behavioural Insights Community of Practice, to build a public service network of people who can share their experiences and identify opportunities for using behavioural insights.

This document outlines how to apply the Start Right approach to initiating a policy project, so it's set up for quality and success.

The Policy Project is working on building public service demand and capability for advice that in informed by evidence and insights.

The purpose of the workshop was to understand futures thinking and tools, as well as impart tips for putting these into practice in a policy setting.

The workshop focused on policy people capability, including a discussion on survey findings and analysis of the policy workforce, pathways to improve capability, and collective formal training initiatives.

This document outlines how to apply the Start Right approach to initiating a policy project, so it's set up for quality and success.

Stats NZ hosted the workshop on how to use open data for policy design.