School of Government sponsors Public Sector Engagement award
Gisborne District Council wins Deloitte IPANZ Public Sector Engagement award for their 'WTF Tairawhiti' district plan campaign
The School of Government sponsored the Public Sector Engagement award at the 2018 Deloitte IPANZ Public Sector Excellence Awards which were held in Wellington on 25 July.
This year the award was won by Gisborne District Council for their project 'WTF Tairawhiti: Long term plan early engagement campaign'.
Judges said WTF (What's the FutureTairawhiti) was a great example of full-on engagement.
“The community was involved at all stages, the initiatives involved were immersive, and it had a significant success rate of 700 percent improvement in participation.
“It used creativity and humour, organisational bravery and a real sense of values and commitment to those values,” judges said.
Professor Girol Karacaoglu, Head of the School of Government presented the award to Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann and customer engagement manager Anita Reedy-Holthausen.
The overall Prime Minister’s Awards for Public Sector Excellence was won by a multi-agency project by Ministry of Education, Tertiary Education Commission, Ministry of Social Development, Inland Revenue to deliver fees-free tertiary education. It also won the Achieving Collective Impact award.
The judges said that this project was, “An outstanding example of innovation and cross-agency delivery, taking complex new policy from concept to design and implementation in just six weeks; delivering a fast, stable service under the pressure of high demand.”
Full list of the award finalists and winners on the IPANZ website.