Pragmatism and caffeine: lessons from cross-agency, cross-sector working

Authors

  • Jo Cribb
  • Robbie Lane
  • Heather Penny
  • Kylie van Delden
  • Kathie Irwin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v7i4.4399

Keywords:

Australian Public Service Commission, 'wicked problems', collaborative strategies for agencies, Green Paper for Vulnerable Children project, cross-agency teams, vulnerability, kaupapa Māori perspective

Abstract

The ways forward for addressing complex policy problems have been well documented and concepts like network leadership, collaboration and citizen engagement espoused. In reality, for those working in cross-agency, cross-sector teams, the way forward is messy, frustrating, and simultaneously exciting. This article shares the practical experience of a cross-agency, cross-sector project team in the hope that thinking is invested not only in the virtues of new ways of working, but in how to operationalise them.

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Policy Quarterly volume 7 number 4 2011

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Published

2011-11-01

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Vol. 7 No. 4 (2011): Policy Quarterly

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