PROGRAMMES

Key development systems

The EDP works to achieve a better quality of life for all through sustainable development. Our team enhances the capabilities of civil society and government to engage in collaborative and adaptive governance within specific key development systems. These key systems -reflected in the EDP’s programmes - abound in opportunities to partner and have a high payoff of collaboration.

Energy & Climate

Partnering for energy security, sustainability and equity

Water Resilience

Building water resilience to strengthen water security

Built Environment

Collaboration for inclusive infrastructure delivery

Local Economic Development

Partnering for inclusive economic growth and employment

Wellbeing & Safety

Enhancing safety boosts economic growth and promotes community well-being.

EDP PROGRAMMES

Built Environment

South Africa continues to experience fractured infrastructure management and delivery, compounded by the country’s current energy crisis and infrastructure deficit. The National Development Plan (2013) calls for partnerships and greater experimentation between public and private sectors to maximise infrastructure delivery. The EDP aims to improve infrastructure planning and delivery for public benefit through inclusive partnering platforms and boosting capability to address structural problems across sectors.

Examples of our work:
ReBuilt: regenerative built environments
Regenerative built environment principles can reverse environmental damage from construction. Partnering with Bauhaus Earth and the African Centre for Cities, the EDP secured workshops to test this concept locally, producing a Changemakers Guide with pathways for systemic change in South Africa’s building and urban development sectors.
Enabling Green Procurement for Human Settlements

The EDP supports City of Cape Town’s Human Settlements Directorate to integrate green procurement into housing delivery. Developing an action-learning report and roadmap through workshops, bilateral meetings and focus groups will help mainstream sustainable procurement practices and unlock high-impact priority projects to advance environmentally responsible urban development.

Partnering across Cape Town industry for economic growth

The City of Cape Town’s Growth Coalitions strengthen public–private partnerships to drive economic development. The EDP pilots the Food & Beverage Sector Growth Coalition, promoting skills development, job creation, and sector growth, while supporting inclusive economic opportunities and unlocking breakout growth in Cape Town’s food and beverage industry.

A group of built environment stakeholders explore the concept of the regenerative built environment and how it applies to their contexts. Credit: Ashraf Hendricks.

The EDP facilitates a session with a group of stakeholders. Credit: Ashraf Hendricks.  

Will it work? Stakeholders from the mobilising environment discuss what partnerships would be necessary to make a regenerative built environments possible in a local context. Credit: Ashraf Hendricks.  

Insights from this programme