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The New Zealand Royal Honours System The King's Service Order and The King's Service Medal Nominating for a New Zealand Royal Honour About Recipients of Honours As a Recipient of an Honour   The New Zealand Royal Honours System  , What type of honours are…

Policy agencies need to keep pace with current issues and prepare for the challenges ahead. Investing in continuous improvement enables maintaining their capability to produce good policy advice. The Policy Capability Framework is an organisational…

The New Zealand Public Service has a duty of stewardship, to look ahead and provide advice on future challenges and opportunities. Good policy advice is informed by a strategic view on what’s important in the medium to long term – it takes a stewardship…

Laws should give effect to the policy intent while upholding legal and constitutional principles. Careful policy analysis and early consideration of legislative design helps achieve this outcome. It’s important for the policy process to consider legal…

Free and frank advice underpins our system of government. Policy practitioners giving free and frank advice to their Ministers (and Cabinet as whole) is one of the principal tenets of our system of government. It demonstrates and upholds the impartiality…

Public problems are increasingly complex and connected, which requires policy practitioners to tap into creative answers. The business case for innovation is well known. Faced with increasing citizen expectations, technological change, and the complexity…

Good quality engagement by government can solve complex problems, can lead to better solutions and build enduring relationships with individuals and groups in the community. Good engagement practice and ensuring a focus on engagement capability are…

Evidence, Good policy advice is underpinned by good evidence. This means that the advice is informed by up-to-date data, contextual and other knowledge, people’s experiences and research from New Zealand and overseas. Achieving evidence-informed policy…

To be a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit:, DANESH-MEYER, Professor Helen Victoria, CNZM, For services to ophthalmology Professor Helen Danesh-Meyer is New Zealand’s pre-eminent authority, and an internationally recognised leader in the…

To be a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit:, DIXON, Mr Scott Ronald Glyndwr, CNZM, For services to motorsport Mr Scott Dixon is New Zealand’s most successful modern motorsport champion and has continued to compete since his appointment as…

To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit:, BARCLAY, Mr Gregor John (Greg), For services to sports governance Mr Greg Barclay has held influential roles in sports administration and governance since the 2000s and was the Independent Chairperson…

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit:, ALLAN, Reverend Dr Patricia Ann, For services to survivors of abuse The Reverend Dr Patricia Allan has shown outstanding leadership for four decades, advocating for justice for victims of sexual abuse…

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit:, BURGESS, Mr Kevin John, For services to governance, the community and sport Mr Kevin Burgess has been a prominent leader, contributor and advocate for Cambridge and the Waipā region for more than 30 years…

To be a Companion of the King’s Service Order:, HARAWIRA, Mr Mark Joseph (Joe), For services to Māori education, arts and conservation Mr Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Maniapoto, Tūhourangi) has advanced te ao Māori through education,…

The King's Service Medal:, ANGLAND, Ms Carol, For services to the community and theatre Ms Carol Angland has actively served her South Canterbury community for more than 50 years. Ms Angland has been a volunteer member of the South Canterbury Drama League…

The New Zealand Distinguished Service Decoration:, BROWN, Commodore Andrew Gilchrist, For services to the New Zealand Defence Force Commodore Andrew Brown was the Senior National Representative for New Zealand’s response to the grounding and sinking of…

The Strategic Crisis Management Directorate leads, coordinates and supports the Officials’ Committee for Domestic and External Security Coordination (ODESC system) of strategic crisis management to deliver a secure and resilient New Zealand.  The…

The National Assessments Bureau is New Zealand's lead agency for intelligence assessment., What the New Zealand Intelligence and Security Act 2017 does, Sets out the role of the National Assessments Bureau (NAB) in legislation for the first time., NAB’s…

A coordinated, effective counter‑terrorism system is fundamental to a resilient, prosperous New Zealand. This strategy drives delivery and system maturity around four priority areas of prevent, protect, disrupt and respond, designed to respond to New…

The New Zealand Bravery Decoration:, ISAAKO, Mr Junior Faamalosi (Losi), Citation, Mr Losi Isaako was asleep at his home in a residential area of Flaxmere on the morning of 20 June 2025, when he was awoken by the sound of loud arguing. Moving outside, he…

The New Zealand Bravery Medal:, BRACEY, Sergeant Richard Mervyn, New Zealand Police, Citation, Early in the afternoon of 14 July 2024, Sergeant Richard Bracey attended a Police response to a family harm incident at a two-bedroom house in Clover Park,…

A list of those who have been awarded a New Zealand Bravery Award. In order of level of award, then alphabetical by surname., THE NEW ZEALAND CROSS, For acts of great bravery in situations of extreme danger.    , NZC, Awarded, AMEY, Jacinda Margaret 23…

  Behavioural insights involves the study of human behaviour, often drawing on empirical research in fields including economics, psychology and sociology. On this page: Why you should use it What it involves What you'll get out of it Ideal circumstances…

A summary of the different behavioural change models On this page: Nudge, system-thinking, and peripheral- and central-thinking models The theory of planned behaviour and related models of rational decision-making Motivated reasoning and cognition, and…

  The New Zealand Public Service has a duty of stewardship, to look ahead and provide advice on future challenges and opportunities. This requires a Public Service that values foresight – to think, anticipate, and act in the future interests of people in…

Achieving the multiple dimensions of quality policy advice can be challenging. Here you will find information on how to develop and deliver policy advice effectively, and what good practice in key dimensions means. Over the years, a number of themes have…

The Policy Project has developed useful, practical resources that policy managers can use to develop their policy skills and produce great policy analysis and advice.    , Start Right Guide, Start Right is about initiating policy projects to be set up for…

As part of our commitment to accountability and transparency, agencies include information in their Estimates and Annual Reports on: the quality of their policy advice the satisfaction of their ministers with the policy support provided by the agency.…

If you're working on an agency level, we've developed a range of resources for you.     , Policy Capability Framework: review tool, This is a resource to help you conduct an in-depth review of your agency’s policy capability and to develop action plans…

    A structured process of looking for early signs of change that could disrupt the issue you are studying in unexpected ways. On this page: Why you should use it What it involves What you'll get out of it Ideal circumstances for use Limitations…

    Stories that describe alternative ways the external environment might develop in the future. Why you should use it What it involves What you'll get out of it Ideal circumstances for use Limitations References, guides and key readings, Why you should…

    Also known as stress-testing, this method tests the robustness of policy options against a set of scenarios to see how well they stand up against a range of external conditions. On this page: Why you should use it What it involves What you'll get out…