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In this speech, hosted by IPANZ at Victoria University of Wellington’s new Auckland facility, Andrew Kibblewhite shared his views on what makes for quality policy advice (PDF 454 KB). “good policy advice hits the sweet spot between what is desirable (...

Nehal Davison, senior researcher from the United Kingdom’s Institute for Government, spent five weeks with the Policy Project team in late 2015. She produced a case study on the Policy Project to analyse its origins, progress and challenges against...

In this seminar, Jeanne Liedtka from the Darden Graduate School of Business discussed the application of design thinking to policy, with a particular focus on the social sector. Jeanne reached beyond the buzzwords to show how design thinking...

At an IPANZ seminar on free and frank policy advice, Andrew Kibblewhite discussed the infrastructure for providing free and frank policy advice. He suggested that 'the difference between knowing the rules and being skilled in the art of providing free...

The Tier 2 Policy Leaders Network were joined by the Head of the Policy Profession at a special session to identify longer term strategic policy questions. The challenge: what are the 5-10 top policy questions for the next 10 years? How might...

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. The workshop brought together two Policy Project cross-agency working groups; the...

Andrew Kibblewhite presented the IPANZ speech in his capacity as Head of the Policy Profession. Andrew discussed the state of the policy profession, what future policy success will look like and what the policy community needs to do to get...

The Policy managers forum included 39 policy managers from 20 agencies. Policy managers tested and iterated some key deliverables for the Policy Project including a common policy quality framework, and work to develop a high-performing policy...

The People capability workshop brought together a diverse range of perspectives (HR/OD/Policy) from across the public service to shape the Policy Project's people capability work stream. Participants identified opportunities and challenges with...

Andrew Kibblewhite attended the official launch of the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear 2015), a global initiative to promote evaluation and evidence-based policy making. The event was opened by the Hon Bill English, followed by speeches and...

Dave Snowden's seminar with the Tier 2 Policy Leaders Network (and a few other avid followers of his work) explored decision making and management practice in policy, among other things. He discussed using the Cynefin framework for making sense of what...

The Policy analyst forum was designed by analysts, for analysts. It provided an opportunity for 64 early career analysts from across the public service to share their ideas for improving policy capability, quality and performance. At the end of the...

Dr David Albury is a Director of the Innovation Unit Board. For almost two decades, David has consulted and advised on forming and implementing strategies and policies for transformation and innovation in education, healthcare and other public services...

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...

The Head of the Policy Profession hosted a roundtable for senior policy leaders with Professor Mark Moore from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The session was designed to learn about the concept of ‘public value’ and how policy...

The Head of the Policy Profession wants chief executives and their departments to understand and meet their policy stewardship responsibilities. Policy leaders (Tier 2s and strategic advisors) came together to discuss what success in policy...

A BIM (Briefing to the incoming Minister) gives a new Minister an overview of the priorities of their department or Ministry, and identifies some of the more significant issues and opportunities. This briefing was prepared for the Honourable...

This Plan describes the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s (DPMC) purpose, medium-term strategy, and how we plan to organise our resources over the next four financial years, to 2020/21. It also sets out how we will deliver on government...

The Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration (Nicky Wagner) has released the Cathedral Working Group (CWG) Recommendation Report. Cathedral Working Group recommendation reportpdf1.56 MB Appendix 1 - Cathedral Working...

Andrew Kibblewhite joined the Minister for Pacific Peoples, Alfred Ngaro and the Deputy Chief Executive Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) , Catherine Neill in launching MPP’s KAPASA – the Pacific Policy Analysis Tool. The diverse and unique...

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...

The Prime Minister Rt Hon Bill English has proactively released the Cabinet paper about the review of the Cabinet Manual. Three documents are published below: the Cabinet paper the revision-tracked version of the Cabinet Manual text that was...

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) plays a key role in monitoring and reporting on the overall progress of the regeneration of greater Christchurch. The report provides a summary of regeneration progress, drawing on numerous sources...

Greater Christchurch Group has released its Whole of Government report on the lessons from the Canterbury earthquake sequence. The report is a literature review of the published material related to the recovery from the Canterbury earthquake sequence,...

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...

On Thursday 17 August, the Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration, Nicky Wagner, presented the report of the Annual Review of the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Act 2016 (the Act) in Parliament. The Act came into effect on 19 April...

The Christchurch Stadium Trust’s pre-feasibility report for a Multi-Use Arena (MUA) in Christchurch considers the viability of an arena and outlines four options of varying size and cost. It reinforces the need for a multi-functional and flexible...

Christchurch City Council's Cranford Regeneration Plan was approved on 17 August 2017 by Hon Gerry Brownlee, acting on behalf of the Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration under section 38 of the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Act 2016...

Christchurch City Council's Cranford Regeneration Plan was approved on 17 August 2017 by Hon Gerry Brownlee, acting on behalf of the Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration under section 38 of the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Act 2016...

Public Service agency practices related to policy people capability and potential options for collective policy workforce initiatives. This report is part of the Policy Project people capability workstream, agreed by the Head of Policy Profession (...

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. Read the conversation tracker here: Policy...

This wallchart provides an easy guide to the transmission, handling, storage, and disposal of different classifications of Cabinet material. See the CabGuide for more information on the secure handling of Cabinet material.

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 (MBIE). See the conversation tracker...

This Privacy Policy describes how the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) will ensure that our staff, members of the public and the government retains the highest level of confidence in our ability to safeguard the personal information we...