Appendix 2: Summary of our Annual Plan 2020/21 multi-year work programme

• Joint venture governance and building our understanding of the family violence system

• Joint venture: How well are agencies working together on policy and intervention design?

• Joint venture: How well are interventions being implemented, and what is the performance of service delivery more generally?

Improving housing outcomes

• Overview of the housing system
• Extended annual audit work on KiwiBuild

• Homelessness
• Housing system oversight
• Planning of significant housing and urban development projects

• Healthy homes

• Health and disability sector reform
• Health system leadership and sustainability

• Access to health services
• Information and communications technology (ICT) systems and services

• Monitoring and managing the delivery of health services

• Helping children at risk of disadvantage or disengagement to succeed in their education: Overview
• Underlying financial sustainability of tertiary education institutions and international comparisons

• Helping children at risk of disadvantage or disengagement to succeed in their education: Review of one or two sector initiatives
• Tertiary education system performance: Work will be informed by our work in 2020/21

• Helping children at risk of disadvantage or disengagement to succeed in their education: Review of further sector initiatives
• Tertiary education system performance: Effectiveness of the Government's 2020 review of vocational education

• Whānau Ora*
• Māori perspectives on accountability

• Are public organisations effectively planning and delivering the Treaty settlement obligations they are responsible for?

• To what extent is the public sector meeting its Treaty and other obligations to Māori, and developing and maintaining its capability to engage with Māori and understand Māori perspectives?

• Progress towards implementing the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals

• Embedding well-being into public sector planning: Part 1: Central government
• Monitoring progress of public sector planning for well-being: Part 2: Local government

• Treasury well-being report and investment statement

• Resilience to climate change: Local government – Long-term plans
• Local government risk management: Stocktake of approach and reporting results
• Canterbury earthquakes: 10 years on, lessons learned*

• Resilience to climate change: Local government – Long-term plans (complete analysis and report our findings)
• Preparedness for response and planning for recovery: Central and local government

• Resilience to climate change: National leadership – Zero Carbon Act
• Risk and resilience planning: Central government

• Performance audit work on integrity:
  • local government sector
• Developing integrity tools and supporting resources:
  • publish the integrity framework
  • develop a self-assessment tool
  • internal resources and training
• Creating discussion and promoting good practice: Exploring different avenues to get the integrity message out*

• Performance audit work on integrity: Central government agency leadership by integrity agencies in the public sector
• Developing integrity tools and supporting resources:
  • uptake of integrity tools and resources
  • proactive inquiries and other review work
  • build integrity checks into our annual audit work
• Creating discussion and promoting good practice: Building discussion on integrity using different platforms

• Performance audit work on integrity:
  • central government and government-funded organisations
• Developing integrity tools and supporting resources:
  • training and guidance on integrity tools
• Creating discussion and promoting good practice: Case studies of integrity progress

Procurement

• Partnerships with the private sector to deliver public sector outcomes*
• Governance of the Auckland city rail link project*
• Understanding and managing the risk of service disruption from the failure of strategic suppliers

• Review of New Zealand Defence Force processes and capability for managing significant services contracts
• Procurement of assets to support effective health care
• Reflections on our procurement work

• Systems and processes underpinning government decisions on major infrastructure investment
• Provincial Growth Fund: Reset of the Provincial Growth Fund and reprioritisation of investments

• Provincial Growth Fund: Realising benefits

• Community accountability*

• Community accountability pilots
• Regional economic development – Examination of MBIE’s progress with Regional Skills Leadership Groups
• Regional service delivery – Examination of a service/initiative in the Auckland region

• Community accountability portal development
• Regional economic development/regional service delivery

• Sector-based reports:
  • Results of the 2019/20 port company audits
  • Central government: Results of the 2019/20 audits
  • Summary of results of the 2019/20 central government audits for chief executives
  • Results of the 2019 school audits
  • Results of the 2019 audits of tertiary education institutions
  • Results of the 2019/20 district health board audits
  • Local government: Results of the 2019/20 audits
• Other reports:
  • Controller updates
  • Follow-up reporting on public entities' implementation of the Auditor-General’s recommendations: Whānau Ora*, Canterbury recovery*
  • Auckland Council review of service performance: Disaster resilience and preparedness
  • Commentary on the Treasury's statement on New Zealand's long-term fiscal position

• Sector-based reports:
  • Central government: Results of the 2020/21 audits
  • Summary of results of the 2020/21 central government audits for chief executives
  • Results of the 2020 school audits
  • Results of the 2020 audits of tertiary education institutions
  • Results of the 2020/21 district health board audits
  • Local government: Results of the 2020/21 audits
  • Matters arising from our audits of the 2021-31 local authority long-term plans and consultation documents
• Other reports:
  • Controller updates
  • Follow-up reporting on public entities' implementation of the Auditor-General’s recommendations (programme of work to be determined)

• Sector-based reports:
  • Central government: Results of the 2021/22 audits
  • Summary of results of the 2021/22 central government audits for chief executives
  • Results of the 2021 school audits
  • Results of the 2021 audits of tertiary education institutions
  • Results of the 2021/22 district health board audits
  • Local government: Results of the 2021/22 audits
• Other reports:
  • Controller updates
  • Follow-up reporting on public entities' implementation of the Auditor-General’s recommendations (programme of work to be determined)

• Review of good practice guidance:
  • Procurement guidance for public entities
  • Public sector purchases, grants, and gifts: Managing funding arrangements with external parties
  • Charging fees for public sector goods and services
  • Controlling sensitive expenditure: Guidelines for public entities
• Supporting audit and risk committees:
  • good practice guidance for audit committees
  • expand Audit and Risk Committee Chair forums
  • engage with audit and risk committee chairpersons
• Understanding performance and supporting the role of monitoring agencies

• Good practice guidance and supplementary resources:
  • develop other good practice resources
• Supporting audit and risk committees:
  • develop a broader induction package for new audit and risk committee chairpersons

• Good practice guidance and supplementary resources:
  • continue to develop good practice resources, and implement approaches for sharing insights about what "good" looks like

• Focus on what happened:
  • Understanding the centralised response
  • Understanding what has been spent
  • Case studies on public sector business continuity*
  • The Wage Subsidy Scheme
  • Annual audit work

• Evaluating the response:
  • How well co-ordinated was the response?
  • Examining specific aspects of the response
  • Value for money of significant areas of expenditure

• Focus on recovery:
  • Key aspects of the recovery plan
  • Drawing together lessons learned
  • International comparisons