Tools
Every tool is a working document, not a worksheet: a blank template, a worked example, and the caveats that matter when you adapt it to your own country.
0 of 15 published. The rest are being written. Each will be downloadable and fillable, under an open licence, with the version and review date on the file itself.
Public interest impact note
Who benefits, who pays, who is excluded, and how future generations are affected.
Common coreIn preparationPolicy evidence canvas
What is known, what is assumed, and what would disprove the policy theory.
Common coreIn preparationState–party boundary map
What belongs to the enduring state, and what an elected government may legitimately change.
Nationhood and Democratic PoliticsIn preparationNational diagnosis
Facts on people, institutions, economy, geography, risks and public services, with gaps declared.
National Direction and ContinuityIn preparationNational outcomes canvas
A small number of generational outcomes, stated so they can be measured.
National Direction and ContinuityIn preparationRoadmap milestone matrix
Turning long-horizon outcomes into ten-year, five-year and annual milestones with owners.
National Direction and ContinuityIn preparationDelivery chain map
From cabinet decision to frontline service: owners, dependencies and failure points.
Delivery and Public ServicesIn preparationCabinet selection rubric
Judging candidates on capability and integrity alongside political balance.
Public Leadership and JudgementIn preparationTransition checklist
What a transition team must establish, secure and publish in its first weeks.
The First 100 DaysIn preparationInherited commitments register
Contracts, guarantees and projects inherited from the previous administration, with fiscal risk.
The First 100 DaysIn preparationPublic investment appraisal questions
What to ask before committing public money to a capital project.
Public Money and Economic StatecraftIn preparationNegotiation mandate
The public objective, the team, the red lines, the alternatives and the approvals map.
Negotiation and National InterestIn preparationDeal risk matrix
Who bears construction, demand, currency, environmental and political risk, and what it is worth.
Negotiation and National InterestIn preparationConflict of interest declaration
Interests, gifts, relationships and recusals, recorded before a decision rather than after.
Common coreIn preparationInstitutional handover pack
Records, capabilities, rules and succession arrangements that should outlast the officeholder.
Ethical Exit and LegacyIn preparation