Our Courses | Akoranga

The customisation of programmes is a mainstay of the Institute’s ability to meet the needs of public sector agencies. While mentoring and study visits are by their nature tailored to each client, established courses can also be customised to improve their effectiveness for a client’s context, including delivery in the client’s home-country.

Course Types

  •  Workshops and Seminars
  •  Professional Development
  •  Short term training
  •  Mentoring and Coaching
  •  Public Service Announcements
  •  Study Visits and Tours

 

The Institute offers training and capacity strengthening in areas in which Aotearoa New Zealand is renowned, including:

Cybersecurity in the Public Sector:

As developing nations invest in digital government, they simultaneously create vulnerabilities that are actively exploited by malicious actors – often with severe consequences for public services and citizen trust. This programme equips government leaders with the governance frameworks, risk management tools, and incident response capabilities needed to protect their nation’s critical systems and data.

Trade Negotiations in a Multi-Polar World:

As the global trading system fragments, developing nations without skilled negotiators and clear trade strategies risk being marginalised by the new architectures shaped by larger powers. Drawing on New Zealand’s exceptional track record at the international trade table, this programme builds the strategic knowledge and practical negotiating skills needed to secure agreements that genuinely serve national development interests.

The Public Service in National Development Planning:

The gap between the ambitions of national development plans and outcomes on the ground is persistent – and above all, it is a public service challenge. Grounded in New Zealand’s wellbeing-based planning experience, this programme strengthens participants’ capacity across the full planning cycle, from coherent plan design and cross-agency implementation through to monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive management.

Other Course Topics

  •  New Models of Governance
  •  Transparency and Anti-Corruption measures
  •  DBPS Systems (Delivering Better Public Services)
  •  Functional Leadership for the State Sector
  •  Mobile Outreach
  •  Sourcing Strategies and Management
  •  Public Sector Change Management
  •  Civil Service Reform
  •  Managing the Estate
  •  Digital learning, AI, and education technology for education leaders
  •  Education leadership for systemic improvement
  •  Climate change adaptation, resilience, and climate-risk planning
  •  Environmental compliance, monitoring, and enforcement
  •  Climate-smart agriculture and food security
  •  Agricultural technology and extension modernisation
  •  Digital transformation and public-service innovation
  •  Cybersecurity and data governance for the public sector
  •  Public financial management and fiscal resilience
  •  Green finance, climate budgeting, and sustainable investment
  •  Cybercrime, digital evidence, and technology-enabled policing
  •  Community policing, public trust, and crisis response
  •  Health-system strengthening and public-health emergency preparedness
  •  Digital health, health data, and AI-supported service delivery
  •  Modern official statistics, survey modernisation, integration, and analytics
  •  Population, climate, agriculture, and SDG data systems
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