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Project

Missions

Our missions work looks at how government can work across departments and levels of government to deliver on long-term policy issues.

Government has consistently struggled to deliver policies and objectives that do not fit neatly into government structures and silos. We analyse how governments can change this and deliver on missions, bold and difficult objectives that have proven difficult to solve in the past. This includes how to better design policy with implementation in mind, the organisation of the centre of government, funding models, and how to better work across different levels of government in order to deliver on missions.

Our work looks at what missions government is, how similar objectives have been completed in the past, and how future governments will be able to deliver on missions.
 

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