Building good practice
The Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector (OCVS) promotes good practice by government agencies in their interaction with community and voluntary organisations. The focus of this work is improving funding arrangements and participation in policy development.
On this page:
Community-engagement courses for public servants
Guidelines for distributing information through Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB)
Good practice in action
There are currently two elements to the ‘Good practice in action’ programme:
- Two online toolkits that provide guidance to government agencies when they are funding and developing relationships with non-profit organisations.
» Go to the ‘Good Practice Funding’ toolkit.
» Go to the ‘Good Practice Participate’ toolkit.
- A series of interactive seminars to promote the sharing of information and good practice between government agencies. Output from these seminars will be incorporated into the ‘Good Practice Funding’ and ‘Good Practice Participate’ toolkits.
» For more information, go to the ‘Good practice in action’ page.
Community engagement courses for public servants
The OCVS can provide information on training courses available to enhance the skills of public servants when they engage with community groups.
Contact: Diana Suggate
Guidelines for distributing information through Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB)
The OCVS has created guidelines for central government agencies that distribute information through New Zealand’s network of 87 Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB). These guidelines will be provided to all government agencies that distribute, or may distribute information through CAB in the future. The guidelines will ensure that agencies communicate regularly with the NZ Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (NZACAB) about new and updated information. The guidelines will also help to reduce the NZACAB’s administrative costs in this area, allowing the CAB network to focus on its core role of providing information and advice to the community.
» Download the 'Guidelines for distributing information through Citzens Advice Bureaux' - Word - 45kb
Contact: Glenda McCallum
Policy Development Toolkit introduced on Public Sector Intranet
The new Policy Development Toolkit is a single point of access to New Zealand policy development guidance documents and websites. The Toolkit is primarily aimed at New Zealand public sector policy analysts, so it is hosted on the public sector intranet. The Toolkit is still in a developmental stage, so many improvements and changes will be made over the next few months. If you have ideas about content, e-mail the team putting it together (details on the PSI). Public servants can access the toolkit.