Documents a roundtable for senior officials designed to understand what is meant by ‘co-production’ and how a co-production approach might be applied to various aspects of government activity – policy, regulation, service delivery – to build public value.

This tool has been designed to help policy practitioners articulate their policy skills profile. It can be used: When applying for jobs To support conversations with your manager (or others) about your development and training needs and your policy career progression Templates are provided to assess your current skills and to think about how you...

This tool has been designed for policy managers in the New Zealand public service. It can be used for: Planning: periodically diagnosing the skills make-up of your team and assessing any gaps and overlaps. Recruitment: as a reference menu to construct policy roles (recruit to specification); or ask candidates to articulate their policy skills profile...

The Policy Project collaborated with the Government Economics Network (GEN) committee to facilitate workshops following the 2016 GEN conference on ‘People and Policy – how to make better and smarter policies through behavioural insights, design thinking and better use of data’. This document records:

This paper tells the story of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s efforts to improve policy quality and capability. The purpose of the paper is to outline the key elements that have underscored MCH’s success as a top performing policy shop. There is no single formula for this, so what the author describes...