Leading Processes for Change

Development requires change, and change can be difficult. The EDP is a public benefit collaborative intermediary organisation that supports diverse stakeholders to harness each other’s energy, knowledge and resources for collective impact and change.

Leading Processes for Change

Development requires change, and change can be difficult. The EDP is a public benefit collaborative intermediary organisation that supports diverse stakeholders to harness each other’s energy, knowledge and resources for collective impact and change.

Leading Processes for Change

Development requires change, and change can be difficult. The EDP is a public benefit collaborative intermediary organisation that supports diverse stakeholders to harness each other’s energy, knowledge and resources for collective impact and change.

Leading Processes for Change

Development requires change, and change can be difficult. The EDP is a public benefit collaborative intermediary organisation that supports diverse stakeholders to harness each other’s energy, knowledge and resources for collective impact and change.

Leading Processes for Change

Development requires change, and change can be difficult. The EDP is a public benefit collaborative intermediary organisation that supports diverse stakeholders to harness each other’s energy, knowledge and resources for collective impact and change.

Service Offering

We design, facilitate and enable collaboration and change processes that improve interventions to address society’s most pressing development challenges.

Adaptive Governance

Nurturing ways of governing that drive collaboration and innovation

Shared Learning

Creating trusted spaces for collective learning and reflection

Collaborative Implementation

Convening processes that move partners towards collective impact

Latest News

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

On 1 October 2025, partners and community members gathered in the Strand area for the Soet River Clean-Up. This initiative was coordinated by the City of Cape Town’s Communications and Partnerships Branch of the Water and Sanitation Directorate. Vusa Ncanywa attended this event and reflects here about how it was more than an environmental effort; this gathering was a moment of shared learning, collaboration and community pride between the City and community members.

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Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

On 1 October 2025, partners and community members gathered in the Strand area for the Soet River Clean-Up. This initiative was coordinated by the City of Cape Town’s Communications and Partnerships Branch of the Water and Sanitation Directorate. Vusa Ncanywa attended this event and reflects here about how it was more than an environmental effort; this gathering was a moment of shared learning, collaboration and community pride between the City and community members.

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Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

On 1 October 2025, partners and community members gathered in the Strand area for the Soet River Clean-Up. This initiative was coordinated by the City of Cape Town’s Communications and Partnerships Branch of the Water and Sanitation Directorate. Vusa Ncanywa attended this event and reflects here about how it was more than an environmental effort; this gathering was a moment of shared learning, collaboration and community pride between the City and community members.

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Our Programmes

Energy and Climate

Partnering for energy security, sustainability and equity

Water Resilience

Building water resilience to strengthen water security

Infrastructure & Mobility

Collaboration for inclusive infrastructure delivery

Employment & Economic Opportunity

Partnering for inclusive economic growth and employment

Food security

Building capabilities for food systems resilience

Spatial transformation

Addressing spatial inequality while maximizing development opportunities

Latest News

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

On 1 October 2025, partners and community members gathered in the Strand area for the Soet River Clean-Up. This initiative was coordinated by the City of Cape Town’s Communications and Partnerships Branch of the Water and Sanitation Directorate. Vusa Ncanywa attended this event and reflects here about how it was more than an environmental effort; this gathering was a moment of shared learning, collaboration and community pride between the City and community members.

read more
Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

On 1 October 2025, partners and community members gathered in the Strand area for the Soet River Clean-Up. This initiative was coordinated by the City of Cape Town’s Communications and Partnerships Branch of the Water and Sanitation Directorate. Vusa Ncanywa attended this event and reflects here about how it was more than an environmental effort; this gathering was a moment of shared learning, collaboration and community pride between the City and community members.

read more
Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

Beyond a clearer river: strengthening City and community partnering

On 1 October 2025, partners and community members gathered in the Strand area for the Soet River Clean-Up. This initiative was coordinated by the City of Cape Town’s Communications and Partnerships Branch of the Water and Sanitation Directorate. Vusa Ncanywa attended this event and reflects here about how it was more than an environmental effort; this gathering was a moment of shared learning, collaboration and community pride between the City and community members.

read more

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.

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.

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