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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

OBJECTIVES

The Strategic Partnerships program provides a focus for open and engaged partnerships to drive strategic projects across the national statistical system. It ensures the ABS remains relevant to the changing needs of its partners and supports the ABS's transformation into a more responsive and integral partner with government. Specifically, this new program will lead wide consultation on issues, opportunities and options to reshape the ABS's legislative and governance framework to meet changing national priorities more effectively. The program will work with all levels of government and the community, and will support other areas of the ABS that are engaging with its partners, to:

• develop a business case to modernise the legislative and governance framework of the ABS
• improve coordination across the statistical system and reduce duplication through coordination and the development of a National Statistics Policy
• develop and improve statistical infrastructure and capability
• coordinate and support jurisdictional activities for ABS programs and progress national statistical priorities.

• progressing, in a highly consultative way, the modernisation of the ABS's legislation and governance framework
• progressing strategic initiatives with partners to encourage investment in high quality statistics and statistical capability as public assets, as well as to improve access, sharing and use of official statistics which meet the high priority needs of users
• support for external statistical governance fora within and across jurisdictions to advance national priorities and the use of statistical information
• provision of advice and intelligence to ABS programs on relevant national and jurisdictional statistical priorities and emerging issues
• promoting the importance of the Census across all levels of government, and providing input into planning of the Census in intercensal years.
  

• revitalising stakeholder engagement as a central pillar of the ABS’s organisational culture as a key activity from the Capability Action Plan, guided by the ABS Engagement Strategy - due 2015-16
• making improvements to Australia's statistical system including finalising a National Statistics Policy - ongoing
• supporting open and engaged partnerships across governments and the statistical community to strengthen the national statistical system - ongoing
• unlocking the potential of key administrative data holdings held by governments to enhance the official statistics evidence base for decision-making purposes, for example, through data integration initiatives - ongoing
• strategically positioning external statistical governance fora to focus on priority areas and provide opportunities for engagement on key policy issues - ongoing.