Resources

Services Australia’s Program Practice Frameworks can be used as standalone resources, or as suite of connected products to support staff when managing programs and projects, engaging with stakeholders and conducting analysis. The Frameworks feature focus areas which include a set of guidelines, applied tools, resources and links to other relevant and appropriate materials.

Supporting officials undertaking Commonwealth procurements, the Department of Finance provides a wealth of supporting tools and templates.

Providing a space for officials to collaborate, share best practice, and hear from industry and government experts, the Commonwealth Procurement and Contract Management Community of Practice is open to all Commonwealth officials.

The Office for Women supports the government’s gender equality priorities and steward gender responsive budgeting by supporting the APS to build gender analysis capability.

Building APS capability to use futures techniques in policymaking through horizon scanning, visioning and scenario planning.

Australia has the opportunity to make best use of our waste resources by recycling them to create new products. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water have created a Sustainable Procurement Guide to assist in this decision making.

A full list of resource management guides to support the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA) from the Department of Finance website.

When commissioning services, the Commonwealth Procurement Framework sets out the basic rules for all Commonwealth procurements and and the way entities undertake their own processes.

This resource guides users through methods to answer their evaluation questions and provides tools to plan and implement an evaluation.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention from the United States Government offers useful resources and insights into the discipline of evaluation.