Publications

December 2023

Meri Kirihimete!

The Policy Project team wishes you and your policy colleagues a lovely Christmas break and a Happy New Year.

Welcome to the Policy Project’s Autumn update. 

The Development Pathways Tool identifies the actions that can be taken take to develop the range of skills needed by policy practitioners.

The Development Pathways Tool identifies the actions that can be taken take to develop the range of skills needed by policy practitioners.

The Development Pathways Tool identifies the actions that can be taken take to develop the range of skills needed by policy practitioners.

This document contains guidance on different types of communication with ministers and Cabinet.

Where did this request come from?

Why this task? Why now?

What’s the big picture? What’s the history of this issue? What are the linkages to other work?

Government departments have started work on their inaugural Long-term Insights Briefings. The political term, news cycle, and demand for immediate action ca

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.

The paper:

Indicative timeframe: April to May 2024

Development steps

Indicative timeframe

1. Gather information about the future

April to May 2024

A guide on panels and processes for assessing policy 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 PDF is editable and be completed electronically, or printed blank and filled out by hand. 

This report presents the findings of an independent panel set up in November 2022 to assess whether the Policy Quality Framework is fit for purpose and being applied consistently in the Public Service. 

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet undertook a review of the first round of Long-term Insights Briefings (Briefings) in July and August 2023.

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

Allen + Clarke Policy and Regulatory Specialists performed an interim evaluation of the Policy Project from March to September 2021. The interim evaluation was commissioned in late 2020 by the Head of the Policy Profession, when it was decided that

In November 2022, Justice David Goddard made the presentation below on ‘Making Laws that Work’ to a Policy Forum for policy managers and principal advisors from across the Public Service.

This set of checklists can help policy advisers and law makers with the development and review of legislative reform.

Good policy decisions, informed by free and frank advice, optimise services and results for New Zealanders, including future generations.

In 2017, Sally Washington (Inaugural Director of the Policy Project) and Michael Mintrom

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.

On 23 August 2016, the Prime Minister and the Head of the Policy Profession officially launched the Policy Project’s three policy improvement frameworks.

Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield from Policy Project in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet delivered this webinar in 2021. The slides are attached below, and you can watch a video of the presentation here:

Matthew Green from the Legislation Design and Advisory Committee delivered this presentation at the August 2021 Policy Forum held by the Policy Project.

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.

In December 2020, a report was released by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch Masjidain.

The Auckland City Council's presentation on encouraging sustainable food choices.