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

Infrastructure & Mobility

Collaboration for inclusive infrastructure delivery

Local Economic Development

Partnering for inclusive economic growth and employment

Safety

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

EDP PROGRAMMES

Infrastructure and Mobility

Collaboration for inclusive infrastructure planning and delivery

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.

Projects in this programme:

ReBuilt: regenerative built environments  

The concept of the regenerative built environment aims to reverse the devastating impacts of construction on natural ecosystems. This project sees the EDP team collaborating with Bauhaus Earth and the African Centre for Cities to host stakeholder workshops to test the relevance of this concept to a local context. One of the outcomes of these engagements will be a Changemakers guide, – a set of pathways for implementing built environment systems change in the local context. 

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.