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These standards will help you assess and improve the quality of your agency's written policy and other advice, and whether it is fit for purpose. The advice may be for a minister, Cabinet or other decision makers, and may be jointly provided with other...

This is one of a suite of guidance resource on Long-term Insights Briefings (Briefings). It sets out the process and indicative timeframe for departments to follow in developing a Briefing. There are eight high-level steps in the development process and...

The Government is addressing how it engages with people and communities, so they can have a stronger voice in the design, development and implementation of policies and programmes that affect them. This is a recommendation of the Royal Commission report...

A case study on community engagement to establish a safe and effective justice system.

A case study on designing experiments to test the feasibility of new digital identity solutions.

A case study on engaging with farming communities to understand their lived experience of issues.

A guide for government agencies and policy advisors on inclusive community engagement in policy making.

Denny Kudrna from the Regulatory Stewardship Team at the Treasury delivered this presentation at the Policy Project's August 2021 forum on policy and law.

Matthew Green from the Legislation Design and Advisory Committee delivered this presentation at the August 2021 Policy Forum held by the Policy Project.

Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield from Policy Project in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet delivered this webinar in 2021. You can watch a video of the presentation at Webinar: Lifting the quality of policy advice on issues involving law reform....

In this workshop we took the first steps towards co-creating a policy specific skills framework by describing the knowledge and skills of the modern policy professional.

This paper outlines the  state of our policy system and suggests a direction of travel for ensuring our policy services are responsive today, help shape the future, and ultimately add value to the lives of New Zealanders. It is designed to support a...

The Policy Project collaborated with GEN to facilitate workshops on Day 2 of the conference where participants engaged with methods and experts in behavioural insights, design thinking and data analytics using a real example taken from the Ministry of...

This case study was written by Nehal Davison from the UK Institute for Government during a five week secondment to the Policy Project team in the New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC). The report tells the story of the Policy...

In the second of the Policy Project workshops with policy capability leads (people nominated by their agency to lead work to improve policy quality and capability), we discussed Policy Project work in progress, had a report back from the Tier 2 Policy...

Superu and the Victoria University School of Government hosted a roundtable for senior officials and experts with Dr Sarah Morton and Andrew Kibblewhite, Head of the Policy Profession. The aim of the roundtable was to share knowledge and experience of...

Stats NZ hosted the workshop on how to use open data for policy design. It was facilitated by Ellen Broad (Associate–Policy, Open Data Institute), and supported by the Department of Internal Affairs, who administer the open data platform (data.govt.nz),...

Scott Douglas, Assistant Professor of Public Management at Utrecht University School of Governance, shared his research findings and insights on making value (including public sector contributions to society) manageable.

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) hosted a workshop on citizen-centred policy, which was facilitated by MSD staff. Parts of it were delivered by staff from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

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 case study by Paul Barker outlines the key elements that have underscored the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's success as a top performing policy shop. 

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.

This user-friendly handbook is designed for those working in New Zealand's social sector, and beyond, who need to know more about how to measure and understand the effectiveness of their programmes. The handbook's introduction covers audience and...

This conversation tracker was developed from the seminar held by the Auckland Co-design Lab. The seminar explored the current state and opportunities for co-design of policy that improves its efficacy and outcomes for New Zealanders.

The purpose of the workshop was to explore different approaches to enabling policy practitioners to produce policy advice that is better informed by various forms of evidence – through the lenses of practice-based evidence and evidence-...

Behavioural insights has the potential to help us understand how people and organisations actually behave. We can use this evidence to implement more effective policies and to identify the best levers to use to effect change.

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. The forum explored the different...

Public policy is fundamentally about managing or resolving collective problems. There is widespread interest in devising better processes and instruments for problem-solving. Can we develop evidence-informed approaches that are rigorous while...

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. In Free and Frank Advice and the Official Information...

Making government rules machine consumable so they can be used by service delivery systems is fast becoming a key component in the digital transformation of governments, particularly as we seek to integrate service delivery, automate information exchange...

Brook Barrington spoke at the Public Service Commission’s Graduate Welcome Event about the future of public policy and programmes.

This roundtable provided an opportunity for policy leaders to draw on Brenton Caffin’s work at Nesta, in partnering with governments around the world to help build their innovation capacity. It explored how to create the conditions for experimentation in...

The Policy Project and the Auckland Co-design Lab co-organised two discovery workshops on 9 and 10 July 2019. The purpose of the workshops was to map the current state of practice within agencies, including the barriers, constraints and enablers to...

Agencies worked in groups to identify which skills in the Policy Skills Framework were both most important to improve, and most amenable to formal training.

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.