By Craft and Learning, APS Academy
The Capability Reinvestment Fund (The Fund) supports the APS Reform priority to be, ‘an APS with the capability to do its job well’. The Fund focuses on the genuine systemic challenges the APS faces. The Fund invests in initiatives to help strengthen the APS to deliver for the Australian community, now and into the future. Contributing to addressing whole of service capability gaps through a networked model and a ‘oneAPS’ approach.
Ten projects involving 14 agencies were funded as part of Round 1. Over the 2023-24 financial year the multi-agency project teams worked together to deliver impactful, scalable, and long-term initiatives that support the development of capability in the identified priority areas.
Round 1 of the Fund projects were required to meet 8 criteria according to guidelines that detailed the parameters for the allocation of the Fund in 2023-24. We take a closer look at six projects to understand better what they set out to achieve. These six projects are:
- MOSAIC: Promoting culturally and linguistically diverse capability.
- Policy Fit for the Future: Building APS Futures and Foresight Capability.
- Uplifting evaluation capability among policy officers.
- APS Indo-Pacific executive development program.
- Building gender analysis capability in the APS, through the NextGEN: Policy for a Gender Equal Nation project.
- Developing capability through microcredentials.
The program teams share some highlights from their projects.