Partnering For Impact

The EDP is a collaborative intermediary organisation for public benefit. We convene diverse stakeholders for collective change. We support our stakeholders in addressing complex problems in contested and uncertain environments across sectors through partnering, adaptation and learning.

Partnering For Impact

The EDP is a collaborative intermediary organisation for public benefit. We convene diverse stakeholders for collective change. We support our stakeholders in addressing complex problems in contested and uncertain environments across sectors through partnering, adaptation and learning.

Partnering For Impact

The EDP is a collaborative intermediary organisation for public benefit. We convene diverse stakeholders for collective change. We support our stakeholders in addressing complex problems in contested and uncertain environments across sectors through partnering, adaptation and learning.

Partnering For Impact

The EDP is a collaborative intermediary organisation for public benefit. We convene diverse stakeholders for collective change. We support our stakeholders in addressing complex problems in contested and uncertain environments across sectors through partnering, adaptation and learning.

Partnering For Impact

The EDP is a collaborative intermediary organisation for public benefit. We convene diverse stakeholders for collective change. We support our stakeholders in addressing complex problems in contested and uncertain environments across sectors through partnering, adaptation and learning.

Programmes

Partnering is essential for effective solutions to our most complex problems. EDP’s work focuses on navigating Energy & Climate Change, ensuring Water Resilience, bolstering Infrastructure & Mobility, enhancing Local Economic Development, and securing Safety.

Partnering method

The EDP has over a decade of experience in partnering with diverse stakeholders in contested spaces to galvanise collective action. Explore what we’ve learned so far.

Creating Change, Together

In 2022, the EDP marked ten years working as a collaborative intermediary organisation in the Western Cape economic development ecosystem and beyond. In this publication, we look back on the many challenges faced and lessons learned, and forward to a new era of growth and change.

Collectively, the EDP team represents a diverse range of disciplines, all underpinned by excellence in systems mapping and cross-sector collaboration facilitation.

The EDP’s origin is over a cup of coffee. Learn how we’ve evolved since then into the partnering organisation we are today.

Insights

The EDP Partnering Blog is a space for the EDP’s partnering practitioners to reflect on broader development and societal issues, innovative practices, and fresh approaches to building collaborative practices for more inclusive, sustainable development outcomes.

Partners

Partnering in action  

The impact of our work is deep and takes time to develop, making it locally-embedded and sustainable. The EDP model for partnering ensures our clients are equipped to take full ownership of their collaborative processes and reach their intended goals, as demonstrated in these case studies of partnering in action.