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Full Policy Quality Framework
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 28 Jun 2019These 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...
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Long-term Insights Briefings – High-level development process
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 9 Apr 2021This 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...
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Policy Community Engagement Tool
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 28 Jan 2022The 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...
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Case Study: Criminal Justice Reform Programme
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 30 Oct 2020A case study on community engagement to establish a safe and effective justice system.
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Case Study: Digital Identity Transition Programme
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 30 Oct 2020A case study on designing experiments to test the feasibility of new digital identity solutions.
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Case Study: Farming Systems Change Project
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 30 Oct 2020A case study on engaging with farming communities to understand their lived experience of issues.
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Guide to Inclusive Community Engagement
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 30 Oct 2020A guide for government agencies and policy advisors on inclusive community engagement in policy making.
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Overview of the interim evaluation of the Policy Project
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Regulatory Stewardship: legislative tools for the adaptation of regulatory systems
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 29 Mar 2022Denny Kudrna from the Regulatory Stewardship Team at the Treasury delivered this presentation at the Policy Project's August 2021 forum on policy and law.
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Legislation Design and Advisory Committee: What you need to know
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 29 Mar 2022Matthew Green from the Legislation Design and Advisory Committee delivered this presentation at the August 2021 Policy Forum held by the Policy Project.
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Lifting the quality of policy advice on issues involving law reform
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 29 Mar 2022Eliza 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....
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Policy skills framework: Co-design workshop
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 24 Jun 2015In 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.
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The Policy Project: Narrative and direction of travel – Feb 2015
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 25 Feb 2015This 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...
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People-centred policy: Andrew Kibblewhite speech to GEN Conference – Dec 2016
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 6 Dec 2016The 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...
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Lifting the policy game across the system: The case of 'The Policy Project' – Nehal Davison case study
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 15 Dec 2015This 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...
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Agency Policy Capability Leads – 17 May 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 17 May 2017In 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...
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Use of evidence in public policy – June 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 21 Jun 2017Superu 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...
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Using Open Data for Policy – June 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 29 Jun 2017Stats 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),...
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Making Value Manageable – August 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 8 Aug 2017Scott 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.
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Citizen-centred policy – June 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 25 Sep 2017The 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.
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Policy people capability workshop – August 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 31 Aug 2017The 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.
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Building policy capability in the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 21 Jun 2017This 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.
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Futures Tools workshop – October 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 26 Oct 2017The 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.
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Making sense of evaluation: a handbook for everyone
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 8 Mar 2018This 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...
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Policy by Design seminar – November 2018
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 25 Jul 2019This 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.
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Policy By Design Workshop – November 2018
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 25 Jul 2019The 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-...
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Behavioural Insights Community of Practice - embedding the use of behavioural insights
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 25 Jul 2019Behavioural 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.
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EngageTech Forum – August 2018
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 10 Oct 2018The 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...
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Behavioural Insights Community of Practice: The establishment of behavioural insights units in three Australian governments – April 2019
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 2 May 2019Public 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...
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Free and Frank Advice and the Official Information Act
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 14 May 2018To 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...
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Behavioural Insights Community of Practice: Behavioural Science Service Update – 6 November 2019
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 26 Nov 2019Making 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...
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Future of Public Policy and Programmes: Graduates Welcome Event – Brook Barrington speech (18 October 2019)
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 4 Nov 2019Brook Barrington spoke at the Public Service Commission’s Graduate Welcome Event about the future of public policy and programmes.
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Creating the conditions for innovation: Brenton Caffin – 24 October 2019
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 25 Oct 2019This 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...
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Public participation in policy making: Discovery workshops – July 2019
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 20 Dec 2019The 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...
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Capability-building through training – October 2017
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 1 Dec 2017Agencies worked in groups to identify which skills in the Policy Skills Framework were both most important to improve, and most amenable to formal training.
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Innovation Seminar: Brenton Caffin – 11 February 2019
Publication or ResourceIssue date: 13 Feb 2019What 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.