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Policy development and analysis

Collective Wisdom provides research, evaluation and consulting services in public policy to clients in public sector agencies at the national and provincial and the non-profit sector.

Our focus is on topics and sectors related to business and economic development, trends, models and best practices in a diverse range of policy fields.

Work is undertaken throughout the policy cycle, from problem identification, advice on policy formulation and strategy development, through to support for policy implementation, evaluation and impact assessment.

Engagements make use of the best available data and empirical evidence. They benefit from the broad sector experience and multi-disciplinary nature of the Collective Wisdom team and its wide range of academic backgrounds.

Collective Wisdoms’s approach to policy development and analysis is driven by a strong interest in improving social and economic conditions through better informed public policies.

Our work is informed and guided by an appreciation of the connections between broader policy goals and objectives and the diverse interests of stakeholders recognizing the likelihood and need for trade-offs and win-wins when making policy and related resource allocation decisions.

Policy development engagements typically involve aspects of other services like Research, Evaluation and Strategic Planning. Related activities typically involve:

• Thought leadership
• Visioning
• Scenario building
• Trend analysis
• Economic modeling
• Knowledge transfer

An important aspect is identifying transferable good practice and effective policy at the provincial, national and international level in other jurisdictions.

Recognizing that policy is only effective when properly communicated, Collective Wisdom has extensive experience in communication through a variety of mechanisms and works with clients to design and implement a communications strategy, prepare content, advise on knowledge management and facilitating the exchange of experience.