Benefits for stakeholders include:
• Higher quality decision-making
• Increased efficiency in and effectiveness of service
delivery
• Improved risk management practices – allowing
risks to be identified and considered earlier,
thereby reducing future costs
• Streamlined policy and program development
processes
• Greater engagement with stakeholder interests –
ensuring services are delivered in collaboration
with stakeholders and provide outcomes which
meet community needs
• Enhanced community confidence in projects
undertaken
• Enhanced capacity to innovate
• Greater opportunities to contribute directly to policy
and program development
• More open and transparent lines of communication
– increasing the accountability of Government and
driving innovation
• Improved access to decision-making processes,
resulting in the delivery of more efficient and
responsive services
• Early identification of synergies between stakeholder
and Government work, encouraging integrated and
comprehensive solutions to complex policy issues