Statement of forecast service performance
Output Class 3 Service Performance:
Intelligence assessments on developments overseas
Description
This class of outputs involves:
- the provision of information and reports on events and trends overseas affecting New Zealand’s interests
- the collection, collation, evaluation and analysis of information on topics likely to affect New Zealand’s foreign relations and
external interests
- the preparation of intelligence assessments and reports on political, economic, environmental, biographic, strategic, military, and scientific subjects as required.
Intelligence assessments
- Ensure the effective provision of high-quality, accurate and succinct assessments of overseas developments that are of policy relevance to New Zealand.
Performance standards are:
- All assessments and reports are factually correct, comprehensive (they take into account all available information), concise (they are no longer than necessary for conveying the information), and pertinent and informative (they reflect national priorities and address topics requested by readers).
- Feedback from the readers of assessments and reports is positive (no more than five per cent of readers make substantive complaints about correctness, comprehensiveness, conciseness, pertinence, and informativeness).
- Ninety per cent of assessments submitted to the National Assessments Committee require no more than minor revision.
- Assessments and reports are appropriate to the Prime Minister’s requirements.
All assessments and reports are delivered in a timeframe useful to policy makers.
Performance measures are:
- regular feedback sought from the Prime Minister
- weekly documenting, by EAB management, of the National Assessments Committee’s consideration of assessments
- an annual report on work output (including the number of assessments and their nature and comparative historical data) provided to senior officials.
Cost
Intelligence assessments on developments overseas will be produced within the appropriated sum of $3.097 million, to be funded by revenue: Crown.
