All posts by Mia Hunt

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  Most US federal government headquarters buildings less than a quarter full, official report finds

  Most of the major US federal agencies’ buildings are a quarter full or less, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO measured employees’ attendance at

  • Posted July 19, 2023
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  Out of adversity comes opportunity: COVID-19 and the future of healthcare

  Healthcare authorities were right at the forefront of the COVID crisis. It was a torrid time, but with it came lessons that have the potential to change care provision for

  • Posted July 10, 2023
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  Officials warn UK may miss climate funding pledge; Janice Charette calls for ‘wellness’ focus: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. UK will damage global standing if it fails to meet £11.6bn climate pledge, officials warn

  • Posted July 6, 2023
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  ‘Find your references, your mirrors and your mentors’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with the Spanish government’s deputy director of learning, Israel Pastor Sainz-Pardo

  In this episode of Leading Questions, podcast host Siobhan Benita speaks know-how and knock-backs with the deputy director of learning at Spain’s National Institute of Public Administration. Israel Pastor has

  • Posted June 29, 2023
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  Record number of women hired to Japanese civil service – but proportion remains low

  The number of women appointed to roles in Japan’s national civil service has reached a record high of 38.7% in 2022-23, official figures show. The percentage translates to women accounting

  • Posted June 28, 2023
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  Mission critical: building diverse teams to improve government outcomes

  Truly diverse and inclusive government organisations are better placed to innovate, to identify risk, and to deliver improved services for citizens than those that aren’t. But there remain barriers to

  • Posted June 25, 2023
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  One third of Canadian public servants consider leaving government over return-to-office rules

  More than a third of Canadian public servants are so unhappy with the federal government’s return-to-office approach that they are considering leaving their roles, according to a survey by the

  • Posted June 20, 2023
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  Australia’s defence department sets 50% recruitment target for women in STEM

  Australia’s Department of Defence is working towards doubling the number of women hired through science, technology, engineering and mathematics recruitment programmes. The 50% target announced last week will apply to

  • Posted June 14, 2023
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  US Congress agrees debt deal, freezing agency spend but reducing shutdown threat

  President Joe Biden has signed into law the lifting of the USA’s borrowing limit, just days before the government was due to default on its debt, which could have had

  • Posted June 6, 2023
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  ‘Empowering people with a sense of possibility’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with New Zealand’s former public service chief Iain Rennie

  Global Government Forum’s latest Leading Questions podcast features Iain Rennie, whose decades-long public service career culminated in eight years as New Zealand’s state services commissioner. In this episode, Iain tells

  • Posted June 1, 2023
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