1c. Choose appropriate interventions to achieve policy intent
Government can make a whole range of interventions to achieve policy goals, ranging from things like connecting and collaborating through to funding, forecasting, regulating and delivering services.
Policy Lab’s Government as a System Toolkit describes a full suite of 56 ‘actions’ that government can take.
Likely Lead Roles
Policy, policy design, service design
Sub-actions
1c. (i) Consider the full range of online and offline interventions
1c. (ii) Model outcomes of different interventions
(i) Consider the full range of online and offline interventions
Developing a new digital service may be one option from a range of possible levers or interventions that government can make. Often government is most effective when it pulls a few different complementary levers or follows a number of ‘styles of action’ in combination.
Environmental benefit:
Choosing the right intervention(s) gives us the best chance of delivering on any policy goals relating to sustainability.
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(ii) Model outcomes of different interventions
Modelling the impacts of a service and/or other interventions at an early stage may enable teams to better understand and predict the potential effects on the environment, economy, or society.
Where appropriate, modelling should include consideration of the systemic effects and impacts on behaviours, such as rebound effects from the use of technology. This insight can then inform decisions on which interventions are most appropriate, before a project or projects begin.
See Principle 3 ‘Measure and publish the impact of the service’.
Environmental benefit:
Insight from modelling can inform decisions on which interventions give us the best chance of delivering policy goals.