Stewardship (Practising)

Works collaboratively to steward policy systems that can
provide advice for the benefit of current and future
generations and Māori Crown relationships.

• Understands the relationship between stewardship and maintaining the Public Service’s capability to provide high-quality policy advice to successive governments.
• Applies a whole-of-system and long-term perspective by incorporating futures thinking into policy development.
• Contributes to stewardship processes and regulatory levers for monitoring the policy system.

70% on-the-job learning

• Read the regulatory stewardship resources from MBIE and The Treasury, including the recording of the launch event which features a panel discussion on regulatory stewardship: Starting out with regulatory stewardship: A resource.
• Learn about why foresight is a useful tool and how it’s done in the ForLearn Guide produced by the European Commission.
• Read about futures thinking in the Policy Project’s Policy Methods Toolbox.
• Be familiar with your own agency’s strategies and become familiar with other agencies’ strategies and system level documents relevant to your domain.
• Review the Policy Quality Framework to see what it says about how taking a stewardship perspective can strengthen your advice.
• Learn about regulatory systems and the difference between regulations and regulation as a broad concept.

20% learning from others

• Join one of the regulatory stewardship Communities of Practice co-convened by G-REG and The Treasury.
• Review any relevant Legislation Design and Advisory Committee submissions and examinations of Bills to select committees.
• Read the latest Long-term Insights Briefings produced by your agency and sector on the page Published Briefings.
• Join or observe a Regulatory Assessment Panel review panel in action.

10% formal learning

• Take a course in futures thinking and strategic foresight.
• Visit the YouTube channel of the Government Regulatory Practice Initiative and watch some of their webinars – including some specifically on regulatory stewardship.
• Become familiar with the Regulatory Impact Analysis system course at the Treasury (online module coming soon). Join or observe a review panel in action and read through some regulatory impact statements.
• Attend any events, webinars, or courses run by your own agency’s teams responsible for regulatory stewardship and systems governance, or talk to those teams about the agency’s processes for regulatory change.