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Communicating advice effectively to a decision-maker relies on the art of good story telling. To tell your story well you need to: know your audience (usually a minister) how best to engage with your audience set the scene or context for...

Public problems are increasingly complex and connected, which requires policy practitioners to tap into creative answers. The business case for innovation is well known. Faced with increasing citizen expectations, technological change, and...

Personas are research-based characters that you create to understand the real experiences of people who will use your service or be affected by a policy. On this page: Why you should use it What it involves What you will get out of it...

Journey mapping helps you to understand a person’s experiences by creating a map of their interactions with the system. On this page: Why you should use it What it involves What you will get out of it Ideal circumstances for use...

Design thinking is also known as human-centred design, co-design and participatory design. On this page: Design thinking for policy Why you should use it What it involves What you will get out of it Ideal circumstances for use...

Policy Capability Leads are people nominated by their agency to lead work on improving policy quality and capability. The Policy Project hosts workshops with Policy Capability Leads to discuss agency experiences using the Policy Project’s frameworks,...

Good policy advice depends on skilled policy practitioners with the right knowledge and tools to do the job. The Policy Project has developed useful, practical resources that policy practitioners can use to develop their policy skills and...

Free and frank advice underpins our system of government. Policy practitioners giving free and frank advice to their Ministers (and Cabinet as whole) is one of the principal tenets of our system of government. It demonstrates and upholds the...

This page collects policy-related publications and resources from past events, including conversation trackers, slide packs, videos, and publications. These events include those hosted by the Policy Project and a range of other organisations. They are...

As part of our commitment to accountability and transparency, agencies include information in their Estimates and Annual Reports on: the quality of their policy advice and the satisfaction of their minister/s with the policy support provided by the...

The Policy Project has built links to its counterparts in other jurisdictions, particularly Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Australian policy professionals There are more than 7000 policy advisors in the Australian Public Service. Their...

There are lots of ways for you to connect with your policy colleagues across the New Zealand public service and overseas. You can find here ways to connect with the New Zealand policy community and the international policy community.

A summary of the different behavioural change models On this page: Nudge, system-thinking, and peripheral - and central-thinking models The theory of planned behaviour and related models of rational decision-making Motivated reasoning and cognition,...

The Response Steering Group (RSG) supports the coordination and delivery of the work programme for the Government’s response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry report into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain. The Group is an advisory and...

The Policy Project’s newsletter View our latest newsletter to stay up to date with developments in the policy community. Email us at policy.project@dpmc.govt.nz to go on our mailing list. Policy forums The Policy Project regularly holds policy forums...

Legislation administered by Ministers and Departments as authorised by the Prime Minister. As at 12 October 2020. Contents Register of Assigned Legislation Part 1: Ministers of the Crown Part 2: Departments of State Register of Assigned...

Work is underway on an approach to measure the success of the Government’s response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry. In November 2021, Cabinet undertook to develop an approach to monitoring the Government’s response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry...

He Whenua Taurikura is New Zealand’s National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. He Whenua Taurikura translates to ‘a country at peace’. He Whenua Taurikura was established in...

Alphabetical by surname. This list is updated from time to time to reflect new appointments and deaths of holders of the title. Please contact the Honours Unit if you have any queries about the list. Her Majesty The Queen has approved the use and...

The Health and Disability Review Transition Unit (Transition Unit) was established by Cabinet in September 2020 following consideration of the Health and Disability System Review / Hauora Manaaki Ki Aotearoa Whānui (the Review). The Transition Unit led...

As well as the many tools and resources we provide on these webpages, we also offer a range of services to help the New Zealand government improve its policy performance. Please contact us at policy.project@dpmc.govt.nz if you’d like to talk about the...

DPMC is a mid-sized agency of nine business units based in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. We have a unique role as the trusted advisor, leader, and steward of our system of executive government. We are unified by an overarching...

New Zealand’s engagement in the new United Nations process to negotiate an international cybercrime treaty Aotearoa New Zealand is currently engaged in the new United Nations process to negotiate an international cybercrime treaty. On this page you will...

Why does community engagement matter when creating policy, and how do we make sure it’s done well? Across the public sector, we recognise that community engagement is no longer an optional extra. It’s also not enough to put a discussion document online...

Work is underway on developing a Strategic Framework for preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalisation across Aotearoa New Zealand. This work is partially in response to Recommendation 4 of the Royal Commission, which states that...

Enduring partnerships between government and communities, Māori, civil society, academia, local government, and the private sector are essential to effectively counter terrorism and violent extremism, strengthen national security and foster social...

The Kāpuia Pānui newsletter is a regular digest of information of interest to Kāpuia members. Kāpuia members typically receive these Pānui via email in between their scheduled hui meetings. The table below documents the Kāpuia Panui for 2022....

Royal Commission of Inquiry Report The report of Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain was released on Tuesday 8 December 2020. The report, Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei, made 44 recommendations covering both...

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is working on a National Security Strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand, to protect New Zealand and its people, today and into the future.  To help develop this strategy, we want to hear your...

Rolls of the Orders Current members (by honour, then alphabetical by surname) The Order of St Michael and St George (1818)    DATE APPOINTED Knight and Dame Grand Cross (GCMG...