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Navigating Government Policy

Governments across all levels constantly face a range of challenges and pressures, from financial constraints to infrastructure demands, community engagement and regulatory issues.

Our team has extensive knowledge and expertise to assist governments across a range of issues, to drive change and achieve better outcomes for their communities.

What we do

Specialising in providing clear advice, robust research, and quantitative analysis of complex data. 

We are committed to helping our clients get to the bottom of tricky policy issues. 

Sapere offers consulting services to help governments of all sizes with the issues they face, including:

  • Policy and service design
  • Research
  • Economic development
  • Strategy
  • Investment assessments
  • Financial modelling
  • Environmental policy.

 

Our team has a strong track record of working with local, state and regional governments in both New Zealand and Australia. 

A large number of our experts have held senior positions in decision-making bodies and have invaluable first-hand perspectives working on challenging policy issues in political economies.

Examples of our work in State, Regional and Local Government

We have conducted a range of projects for decision-making bodies across New Zealand and Australia. 

  • A cost-benefit analysis for a range of investment options for the Auckland Central Library
  • Development of a business case for the proposed Fairfield Showground Regional Multi-Cultural and Indoor Sports Centre in NSW
  • Investigating the living wage and minimum wage for Napier and the wider Hawke’s Bay region in New Zealand
  • Estimating the economic costs of the Havelock North 2016 waterborne disease outbreak.
We are an approved All of Government provider in New Zealand and for whole of government panels in New South Wales and Victoria, as well as other government panels across Australia and New Zealand.

Key contacts

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Dr Vijaya Ramamurthy

Some of our recent articles of interest

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How can governments effectively assess and manage climate risk to ensure a sustainable future?

  • Client: Department of Treasury (Western Australia)
Sapere provided expert advice on the design of a Climate Risk Framework for the WA government, exploring options for a staged approach, and aligning with international standards for climate risk disclosure, to support Western Australia's climate resilience efforts.
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Financial management

What if every public sector officer could master financial management?

  • Client: Department of Treasury (Western Australia)
The Financial Management Act 2006 forms the backbone of financial management for the WA Government, yet many public sector officers lacked familiarity with its provisions. In response, the WA Treasury asked Sapere to develop a comprehensive training program to improve practice and behaviour.
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Utility pricing – to block or not to block

Rather than provide a volume discount, some utilities charge a higher rate for greater use. This approach, known as an inclining or rising block tariff, is often advocated as being a fair way to encourage conservation. But is this really the case? This article investigates.
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How low-density housing is making us poorer

Enabling a higher density of businesses and houses can bring many benefits to cities. It makes us as individuals, and as a society, richer – and not only in monetary terms. More choices of where to live, and less land per home, means lower house prices.
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Growing social housing—Building Financial Capacity of Housing Agencies program evaluation

  • Client: Department of Treasury and Finance (Victoria)
The Victorian Treasury offered A$1.1 billion in low-cost, long-term low-interest loans and state guarantees to community housing agencies. Our evaluation of this program managed the complexity of complementary social housing funding and financing programs in our analysis.
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Expanding Victoria’s Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) System

  • Client: Victorian Department of Health
SafeScript is the Victorian Government’s RTPM system. It enables prescribing registered medical practitioners, nurse practitioners and dispensing pharmacists to access accurate and up-to-date information regarding a patient’s medication history with respect to specific high-risk medicines in real time.
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The economic benefits of a circular economy in Auckland

  • Client: Sustainable Business Network
This report provides a view on the potential economic benefits of a more circular economy for Auckland. It has been commissioned by the Sustainable Business Network to inform its report on the circular economy opportunity for Auckland.
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The emissions footprint of broadband in New Zealand

  • Client: Chorus
This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.
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