All posts tagged "New Zealand"

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  Civil servants confident in their organisations’ agility but barriers to progress remain, study finds

  Four in five civil servants across nine countries say their organisation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has helped it to develop significant new capabilities, according to a major new survey

  • Posted November 9, 2021
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  UK and Singapore open digital trade talks

  The UK has become the first European country to begin negotiations with Singapore on a Digital Economy Agreement (DEA), following a model under which the Asian nation seeks to foster

  • Posted June 29, 2021
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  Public trust in government isn’t only essential to service delivery – it restores the public sector too

  Opinion: Trust strengthens links with communities, and those bonds help to attract broader talent into public service, writes former New Zealand civil service chief Iain Rennie. After COVID-19, we must seize the

  • Posted June 2, 2021
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  New Zealand sets out 2021 budget with new inclusive wellbeing framework

  New Zealand has published its annual Budget, setting out an updated approach to wellbeing, explaining how it plans to rebuild the country’s economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, and allocating funds

  • Posted May 20, 2021
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  A new breed of public servants: skills and staffing after the pandemic

  Civil servants have broken new ground during the COVID-19 pandemic – using hackathons, scientific advisory groups and private sector volunteers to shape policy and deliver services, for example. But at

  • Posted May 10, 2021
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  The race to protect: how COVID-19 supercharged civil service delivery

  When the pandemic arrived, civil services acted rapidly to protect citizens. At the Global Government Summit, national leaders discussed some of the lessons they’d learned – and looked ahead to

  • Posted April 28, 2021
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  Trust in public services soars in New Zealand due to handling of COVID-19

  Trust in New Zealand’s public sector surged between December 2019 and December 2020 following the government’s successful response to COVID-19, according to results from an online survey. More than two-thirds

  • Posted February 23, 2021
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  Five big thoughts on 2020: the year’s best interviews

  It’s been a hell of a year – and one presenting huge challenges for civil servants around the world. Our interviews explore how senior leaders have faced those challenges: in

  • Posted December 28, 2020
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  Civil service leaders share the career tips that helped them up the ladder

  There’s an awful lot of career advice around – but how to know whether it’s any good? We asked 12 leading national officials to name the tips they found most

  • Posted December 22, 2020
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  Finance and governance are not the gatekeepers of innovation

  At a recent event, senior leaders discussed how governance and processes can support new thinking. While siloes can be problematic, COVID has shown that collaboration is key. Adam Branson reports

  • Posted December 18, 2020
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