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This White Paper provides an overview of the upcoming reform of the health and disability system .

These fact sheets are published in English as part of the  Health and Disability System Review .

These fact sheets are published in Te Reo Māori as part of the  Health and Disability System Review .

This resource describes the main features of the Policy Capability Framework and explains how to apply the review tool to improve policy capability.    

The Policy Skills Framework describes the knowledge, applied skills, practices, and behaviours policy practitioners require to be able to produce quality advice. This A3 tool has been designed to help policy practitioners assess their policy skills…

The Policy Skills Framework describes the knowledge, applied skills, practices, and behaviours expected of policy practitioners. This tool has been designed to help policy managers assess the skills of their team against the Policy Skills Framework. It…

Improving policy capability, A case study of Inland Revenue’s experience of applying the Policy Capability Framework, and their commitment to using it as a health check every six months. Key points: In 2017, Inland Revenue (IR) embarked on a five-year…

A case study on designing experiments to test the feasibility of new digital identity solutions.

A case study on community engagement to establish a safe and effective justice system.

A case study on engaging with farming communities to understand their lived experience of issues.

Reporting on the child poverty related indicators, New Zealand should be a place where all children and young people are loved, confident, happy and healthy, and are empowered to reach their full potential. Too many children and young people live in…

This light-touch review tool presents the related ‘lines of inquiry’ from the full framework, to help you and your colleagues assess your organisation's policy capability. For the full version with indicators and maturity ratings to help with detailed…

What is the Policy Capability Framework? , The  Policy Capability Framework  (PCF) is a performance improvement tool. It aims to help agencies review and improve the overall policy capability of their organisations. It describes the key components of…

Checklist for reviewing papers in development, This checklist can be used when reviewing a paper that you (or someone else) are developing. The Policy Quality Framework sets out four standards of quality policy analysis and advice. Detailed…

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…

This handbook sets out New Zealand’s arrangements with respect to both to the governance of national security and in response to a potential, emerging or actual national security crisis. As of 2025, it has been superseded by the National Resilience…

This conversation tracker is a record of the July 2014 Policy Leaders Forum, which provided an opportunity for 83 policy professionals (from 23 agencies) and thought leaders from across the public service to co-design the roadmap and programme of work for…