Other services

We apply our expertise to a range of additional services including:

• Cost benefit analysis
• Industry and sectoral research
• Impact assessments (including human rights, gender impacts)
• Governance reviews
• Capacity and capability reviews
• Performance audit
• Process design and simplification
• Compliance reviews and evaluation
• Policy effectiveness evaluation
• Social and Economic Impact Assessments (gaming venues)
• Analysis to support licensing and registration applications
• Probity advice and audits and procurement strategy advice

Some previous projects have included:

Policy Reviews & Evaluations

• Review of Home Schooling Regulation in Victoria
• Advice on facilitating new energy transmission projects in Victoria
• Advice on strengthening enforcement of safety zones for timber harvesting
• Advice to the Victorian Government on its response to the independent Review of Electricity and Gas Retail Markets in Victoria
• Review of Procurement Policy: Social, Environmental and Economic
  Sustainability  (Banyule Council)
• Simplifying fee arrangements for Tourism Operator Licences
•  Measurement of the efficiency improvements at Land Victoria 2000-2013
•  Assessing the Building Surveyor Reforms
•  Councils Reforming Business Program Evaluation
•  Planned Burning Policy Impact Assessment Project
•  Cost-benefit Analysis of reducing Fully Integrated Carbon Model (FullCAM) uncertainty
•  Effectiveness of Voluntary Environmental Agreements Report
•  Future Coasts Economic Analysis of Adaptation Options Manual
•  Review of legislative framework for managing spatial information in Victoria
•  Advice on the development of models for funding corporate costs in Catchment Management Authorities, 2009-11
•  Development of performance indicators and instruments for Victoria’s environmental agencies, 2009-10

Governance Reviews

•  Review of the Bellarine Bayside Foreshore Committee of Management
•  Capacity and Capability Review of the Metropolitan Waste Management Group
•  Review of proposed institutional reforms in environmental agencies, for the Victorian Government’s Land and Biodiversity White Paper, 2009-10