Department for International Development’s Approach to Value for Money: Guidance for external partners

This guidance comes from an international development context, but is helpful to anyone who wants to understand how to…


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Solution scanning as a key policy tool: Identifying management interventions to help maintain and enhance regulating ecosystem services

Especially in the area of resource management, identifying a range of options is key to the development of effective…


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Risk, wellbeing, and public policy

Risk is a long-standing consideration for policy professionals, behavioural economists, and others. It can also be…


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Kapasa: The Pacific Policy Analysis tool

The Kapasa tool supports policy professionals to include data and information about Pacific peoples in their analysis.…


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Getting the relationship right: Effective engagement with Ministers across the political/administrative interface

This article reports highlights from a panel discussion jointly hosted by the Institute of Public Administration New…


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Free and frank advice, and policy stewardship

Providing free and frank advice is integral to the development and delivery of policy stewardship, good policy…


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SIA’s Beginners’ Guide to the IDI

The Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) is a large research database curated by Stats NZ, containing matched,…


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How do government agencies give out money?

To do its job, a government agency often has to give out money: buying goods and services or providing funding for some…


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How do you write a strategy?

Strategies are one tool that governments use to achieve long-term goals - and if you're a policy professional, you'll…


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