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DIAC Session 3, November 18 2010 Developing and presenting the policy

DIAC Session 3, November 18 2010 Developing and presenting the policy. Professor Adam Graycar Centre for Policy Innovation. Understand budget cycle Before going to Cabinet, Finance must agree all costings Costs are often required to be offset. Budget cycle. 2. Developing the policy.

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DIAC Session 3, November 18 2010 Developing and presenting the policy

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  1. DIAC Session 3, November 18 2010Developing and presenting the policy Professor Adam Graycar Centre for Policy Innovation

  2. Understand budget cycle • Before going to Cabinet, Finance must agree all costings • Costs are often required to be offset adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  3. Budget cycle 2

  4. Developing the policy • What do you want to say? • How would you shape it and communicate your contribution? •  How would you sell the idea in your department? •  How would you to sell it to the Minister and to anybody else? •  How would you further develop, implement and evaluate it? adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  5. Written brief - Headings • Purpose • Background • Discussion • Consultation • Options • Budget implications • Implementation & risk management • Summary • Recommendation adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  6. Purpose • To brief Minister/ Secretary/ other • To make aware of current issue • To make a change for efficiency/ effectiveness/ equity adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  7. Background • Why is this a problem that needs fixing • What have been the effects/ problems of the status quo adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  8. Discussion • What are the drivers/ what is the evidence • Who is the target group • Which other players are in the mix • What policies/ practices shape the issue • What existing policies/ practices are in play adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  9. Consultation • Who has been consulted - where do they stand • Stakeholder management adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  10. Options • From do nothing to major change • What is feasible • What is desirable • What trade-offs adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  11. Budget implications • Implementation & risk management • Summary • Recommendation adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  12. Pitfalls in presenting • Over qualifying • Showing off all you know • Listing without explaining • Assuming your section/ agency is the only one with a handle/ solution to the problem • Don’t ramble in setting the scene. Start with the conclusion adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

  13. Telling the story • Explaining • $20 note - new and plausible • Tell your story in one minute • Explain to a lay person • Keep logical and systematic adam.graycar@anu.edu.au

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