01160pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002800040245006400068260000900132300001200141362000800153520079900161650001800960773004800978180718b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMabin, Victoria, et al.  aPublic sector priority setting using decision support tools  c2001  ap.44-59  aJun  aThe public sector is in transition in many countries, including New Zealand, and many government departments have been restructured so as to increase transparency and accountability in their decision-making by implementing fundamental changes to governance, accountability regimes and information systems.  New frameworks are also needed for tasks such as priority setting, and this paper describes the framework developed to assist the then NZ Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) in setting priorities for the allocation of research funds.  This comprised a participative process including a series of workshops using both Group Systems software for electronic meeting support and Visual Interactive Sensitivity Analysis (VISA) software to facilitate a multi-criteria decision analysis. - Reproduced  aPublic sector  aAustralian Journal of Public Administration