Sally Washington

Tactics for navigating the political-administrative interface include codifying effective practices and building good working relationships.

Here’s how the public service can help ministers set a strategic policy program that articulates their manifesto promises.

How do we ensure ministers and their departments engage in the most productive way from the start of their working relationships? Sally Washington outlines how.

NZ’s government departments must produce regular long-term insights briefings. Sally Washington reports on the process, potential and possible pitfalls.

What is the ‘policy problem’ and what’s to be done about it? Find out, and how to make changes stick, at the Mandarin Live session on policy infrastructure, facilitated by Sally Washington and Michael Mintrom on 19 November.