- Framing the problem you are trying to solve to improve focus.
- Understanding the drivers for current program structures/approaches, including legislative, regulatory, economic and social drivers.
- Understanding the current policy and political environment that makes up the strategic environment for your program.
- Examining your data and understanding trends.
- Looking to others across the world to identify emerging trends and quantify relevant evidence.
- Listening to clients, staff and stakeholders to understand their needs and experiences.
Services
Policy
Your current settings don’t meet contemporary need: what can you do to create public value?
Policy change is incremental; achieving change means it needs to be ambitious and pragmatic.
Developing policy responses requires both the right technical expertise such as being able to understand issues and evidence, and deep experience in navigating public decision-making processes and stakeholder positions and judgement about what works when. We are expert at working across different sectors and with different stakeholder groups in the development of new policy responses. We support clients through all stages of the policy development process delivering a product that supports robust decision making.
Our approach might include
Examples of our policy work include
- Homelessness and health needs analysis for Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network, to identify needs and design evidence-driven responses.
- Review of national regulatory policy for Early Childhood Education and Care sector to identify areas requiring change (NSW Department of Education)
- Review and redesign of government grants programs to increase impact and reduce unnecessary red tape. Examples include programs aimed at seniors, carers, women and communities.
- Statutory review of the NSW Disability Inclusion Act 2014 to test its continued relevance and appropriateness. (NSW Department of Communities and Justice)
- Facilitating ‘think tank’ work including workshops and scenario development for a redesign of the NSW Government Resources Efficiency Program.
