• Goals and objectives of public policy design
• Nature and scope of the public issue and interest
• What are the interests, authorities and capacities of government(s)?
• Appropriate tools of intervention to achieve valid public goals
• Impact of policy culture on tools selected
• Horizontal impacts and implications, and how they should be managed
• Examples, practical insights and experience in framing and addressing policy

It’s no secret that often new policies are a hard sell. We can spend an inordinate amount of time justifying our policies to other stakeholders, trying to get buy-in. But in many cases that effort is avoidable if we word the policy differently.

• Properly distinguishing policy from procedure
• Leveraging the organization’s values
• How corporate culture is reflected in policy wording
• Integrating the value of “respect for others”

• The MHCC and mental health policy in Canada
• The role of policy analysis work at the Commission
• Applying foundational cross-cutting principles to mental health policy work: Importance of health equity, lived and living experiences, and collaboration
• Lessons learned from the MHCC’s COVID-19 Policy Response Project
  • Taking stock of national mental health and substance use health impacts through polling and research
  • Building collaborative capacity in the sector through the Mental Health and Substance Use Health Policy Network
  • Influencing policy action through knowledge mobilization

• How consumer spending trend data can be used to influence  policy and decision making by all levels of government
• Regional and national insights used to assist in making policy decisions relating to business development, impact of Covid restrictions on the business community, public transit, etc. (use case review)
• Economic impacts on infrastructure projects on the local business communities
• How spending data helps informs research studies and forecasting models

• How does the evaluation function provide an opportunity to rigorously examine considerations related to GBA+
• How can an evaluation provide ways to further improve design and implementation of the policy or program?
• What is the role of evaluation in the project management cycle and GBA+?
  • Integrating GBA+ into the approach and methodology
  • Considering diverse target population groups
  • Addressing gender and other intersecting factors
  • Identifying any limitations related to GBA+, the impact of those limitations, and how they could have been mitigated to ensure the validity and reliability of finding
  • Identifying areas for action and impact on diverse target population groups
• From the evaluator’s perspective: Developing capacity in the evaluation function for GBA+
• From the evaluator’s perspective: Challenges and ways forward

• The Background to Every Policy:  Deepening VUCA-driven Cultural Incoherence.
• Making Reliable and Explicit Sense of It All:  A New Requirement.
• Will better Public Policy be enough?
• When and Why was Public Policy Invented?
• What does sound Public Policy do for us?
• Strategic Foresight 2.0 is to Policy what Policy is to Operations.
• The Emerging Focus on Differing Worldviews/Forms of Civilization
• What future does most of today’s Public Policy anticipate?
• Differing Mindsets:  Strategic Foresight 2.0, Policy Development and Procedures.
• Practical Advice from the Front Lines.