Engagement and impact
APPI seeks to undertake activities and produce outcomes that promote holistic public value. We have developed a rigorous approach to capturing the impact of our work.
Highlights
hrs of facilitated collaboration between policymakers and researchers
projects tackling the biggest policy challenges facing Australia
direct engagements with policymakers, researchers and other experts
public policy professionals & researchers shared their expertise
solutions-oriented reports published
Impact stories
Delivering for the public good
APPI exists to support governments to deliver policy solutions on complex challenges, informed by leading research and diverse expertise, that have significant benefits for the people of Australia.
Working closely with a group of expert advisors across our university partners, we have developed a rigorous approach to capturing the impact of our work through a dedicated Impact Framework.
As a bridge between experts and policymakers, APPI catalyses real impact for people and communities through the development of better public policy. We monitor and communicate impact in a continually evolving manner, recognising the inherent challenges of measuring the impact of collaborations in the policymaking process.
We believe that we are most able to deliver value by pursuing complex challenges, and producing bold and innovative solutions that have the capacity to be implemented.
Professor Libby Hackett, CEO of APPI
Impact outcomes
APPI is committed to undertaking activities and producing outcomes for the public good.
Public policy changes produce beneficial social, economic, environmental and cultural outcomes, for individuals and communities, underpinned by the best available evidence.
APPI’s contribution:
- Government uses APPI’s evidence-based policy advice to drive policy change.
- This advice promotes a robust and multi-dimensional public good by integrating three kinds of expertise.
- Government integrates external expertise into more policy processes.
- Researchers, as well as community and industry colleagues, are equipped to contribute.
- Innovative policy ideas circulate and generate incremental progress.
Government collaboration with researchers, as well as industry and community actors, becomes mainstream in the development of public policy, and an evidence-based approach is embedded in policy development processes.
APPI’s contribution:
- Through work with APPI, government has increased demand for joint policy problem-solving, and integrates external expertise into a wider range of policy processes.
- Through work with APPI, university researchers and stakeholders in community and industry have pathways, skills, experience and confidence to engage government and impact policy for the public good.
Government is confident to engage with research, and researchers are more confident to engage in policy processes.
APPI’s contribution:
- Through work with APPI, government has clear pathways and skills for joint policy problem-solving and using an evidence-based approach.
- Through various kinds of engagement with APPI, academic researchers and stakeholders in community and industry have pathways, skills, experience and confidence to engage government and impact policy for the public good.
Actors across government, universities, industry and the community have their perspectives shaped by bold, evidence-based policy insights, which influences discourse.
APPI’s contribution:
- APPI produces and platforms bold, evidence-based policy ideas that the policy community accesses and discusses.
- APPI delivers trusted policy advice to government, and communicates relevant lessons to a wider policy audience.
- APPI’s integration of three kinds of expertise ensures its contributions are innovative and influential.
Mapping our impact area
Impact Framework
APPI’s Impact Framework sets out a theory of change that articulates how we use our resources and undertake activities to deliver outputs, and ultimately achieve our target outcomes. Each outcome has a range of qualitative and quantitative indicators, which seek to capture both the quality and impact of our work. While committed to capturing tangible data and insights, the Framework also recognises the inherent challenges of measuring the impact of complex collaborations in the policymaking process.
