| How well is the public sector improving the lives of New Zealanders? |
| Achieving reductions in family violence |
- Performance in achieving reductions in family violence – Community voices research
- Joint venture governance and building our understanding of the family violence system
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| Improving housing outcomes |
- Overview of the housing system
- Extended annual audit work on KiwiBuild
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| Improving health outcomes |
- Health sector reform
- Health system leadership and sustainability
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| Improving education outcomes |
- Helping children at risk of disadvantage or disengagement to succeed in their education – overview
- Underlying financial sustainability of tertiary education institutions and international comparisons
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| Improving outcomes for Māori |
- Māori perspectives on accountability
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| How well is the public accountability system working as a whole? |
| Influencing improvement performance and accountability |
- Making performance reporting more effective
- Landscape of the public accountability system: Second report
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| Implementing a well-being focus |
- Progress towards implementing the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals
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| Resilience and climate change |
- Resilience to climate change: Local government – Long-term plans
- Local government risk management: Stocktake of approach and reporting results
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| Integrity in our public sector |
- Developing integrity tools and supporting resources:
- publish the integrity framework
- develop a self-assessment tool or survey
- internal resources and training
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| Procurement |
- Effectiveness of panels of suppliers
- Provincial Growth Fund: Management, monitoring, and evaluation of the Fund
- NZTA: Maintaining safe and reliable state highways through network outcomes contracts
- Review of Defence Major Projects Report 2019
- Understanding and managing the risk of service disruption from the failure of strategic suppliers
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| Processes underpinning significant government investments |
- Inland Revenue Department: Benefits from the Business Transformation programme
- Systems and processes underpinning government decisions on major infrastructure investment
- Provincial Growth Fund: Reset of the Provincial Growth Fund and reprioritisation of investments
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| Keeping New Zealanders informed about public sector performance and accountability |
| Influencing improvement performance and accountability |
- Report on the progress of public entities in implementing the Auditor-General's recommendations from previous reports:
- Using information to improve social housing services
- Accident Compensation Corporation: Using a case management approach to rehabilitation
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| Our regular reporting |
- 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
- Auckland Council review of service performance: Disaster resilience and preparedness
- Commentary on the Treasury's statement on New Zealand's long-term fiscal position
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| Sharing insights about what "good" looks like |
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- 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
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- Supporting audit and risk committees:
- Review and update our good practice guidance for audit and risk committees
- Expand our Audit and Risk Committee Chair forums
- Engage more with audit and risk committee chairpersons
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- Understanding performance and supporting the role of monitoring agencies
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| Providing assurance to Parliament and the public on the Covid-19 pandemic response and recovery |
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- Focus on what happened:
- Understanding the centralised response
- Case studies on public sector business continuity
- Understanding what has been spent
- The wage subsidy scheme
- Annual audit work
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