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Capability Reinvestment Fund

The Capability Reinvestment Fund has facilitated investment in organisational capability, ensuring the APS is fit-for-purpose to deliver government priorities and address service-wide challenges. It has implemented scalable and impactful activities to help all agencies prepare for current and future challenges.

APS agencies collaborated on 9 Capability Reinvestment Fund projects in 2024 ꟷ 25, the Fund’s second and final year.

Twenty-four agencies worked together to design and deliver the Round 2 projects, sharing $6.5 million of funding:

  • AI CoLab, facilitating co-design and testing of safe and responsible AI tools to support integrated and inclusive policy across the APS.
  • Many Cultures, One APS: CALD Employee Journeys, sharing personal stories of culturally and linguistically diverse and non-CALD employees, and their experiences of migration, life in Australia, family and employment.
  • Greening government microcredentials, advancing APS capability to achieve the Government’s climate and sustainability commitments through two nationally-focused trials.
  • Building safety and integrity capability across the APS, driving positive behaviour change to support psychological safety across the APS.
  • APS Data Integrity Framework, to support accurate, reliable and secure use of integrity data in the APS.
  • Uplifting APS capability to work effectively with First Nations data and evidence, to better integrate First Nations approaches in APS policy and program design.
  • Digital Map of Human Services, piloting a digital service mapping tool, for ensuring decisions are informed by an ecosystem view of human services delivery.
  • APS Integrated Unconscious Bias training program, to build employee confidence in identifying and addressing unconscious bias in the APS.
  • Futures exercises for developing Asia and the Pacific expertise, to enhance the long-term policy development and strategic planning capability of the APS in the context of the Indo-Pacific region.

These projects build on the success of Round 1 projects, completed in June 2024, sharing $8.4 million of funding.

The APS Academy has supported the initiative, ensuring a focus on service-wide capability improvements, monitoring delivery, and reporting on progress to the Minister for the Public Service and Secretaries Board.

Find out more

Australian Government (2024) APS Capability Reinvestment Fund 2024ꟷ25, APS Reform website, accessed 15 July 2025.

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The APSC acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.