Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (abbreviated to IPANZ) is a voluntary public administration

Public administration

Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....

 organisation. IPANZ states their goal is to

"promoting improvements in public policy and in administration and management in the public sector in New Zealand, and to increasing public understanding of the work undertaken in the public sector".

IPANZ publish a quarterly journal called Public Sector and run annual awards for the New Zealand public sector

State sector organisations in New Zealand

Public sector organisations in New Zealand include the State sector plus the organisations of local government.Within the State sector lies the State services, and within this, lies the core Public service....

 called the IPANZ GEN-I Public Sector Excellence Awards.

History

The "Public Service Administration Society" was established in Christchurch

Christchurch

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...

in 1934. Similar societies were then established in Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin, which were then merged in 1936 to form the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration.

External links

• http://www.ipanz.org.nz/
• IPANZ Awards