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This is one of a suite of Long-term Insights Briefings guidance resources. It sets out the requirements on departmental chief executives to develop a Long-term Insights Briefing (Briefing) and recommendations for how these Briefings should best be...

This is one of a suite of guidance resource on Long-term Insights Briefings (Briefings). It provides guidance to support agencies in undertaking the necessary activities that form each of the eight steps in the development process for a Briefing, and...

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...

Quality Standards for written policy and other advice 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...

This checklist can be used when reviewing a paper that you (or someone else) are developing. The Policy Quality Framework sets out four standards of quality policy analysis and advice. Detailed characteristics sit under each of these standards. ...

About this guide This guide contains advice on how to run a panel-based assessment of policy and other advice papers after their delivery (an ex-post assessment process) using the Policy Quality Framework. It also explains how to score advice papers...

This paper-scoring template can be used by policy quality panel members to record their preliminary assessment of each paper they read. This document is an editable PDF. It can be completed electronically and then printed, or you can print it out and...

This guide contains advice on how to run a panel-based assessment of policy and other advice papers after their delivery (an ex-post assessment process) using the Policy Quality Framework. It also explains how to score advice papers using the Policy...

This is one of a suite of guidance resource on Long-term Insights Briefings (Briefings). The Checklist provides a list of questions based on good practice that can be considered during each step of the development process for a Briefing. It sets out...

Policy Skills Framework The Policy Skills Framework describes the mix of knowledge, skills and behaviours a modern policy practitioner requires – to be able to deliver quality policy advice.  Each element of the Framework is described at varying...

This resource describes the main features of the Policy Capability Framework and explains how to apply the review tool to improve policy capability.    

This light-touch review tool presents the related ‘lines of inquiry’ from the full framework, to help you and your colleagues assess your organisation's policy capability. For the full version with indicators and maturity ratings to help with...

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...