Development Planning Intelligence Management and Research
About Us:
The Directorate is responsible for providing a development planning intelligence, research and policy coordination service.
The service seeks to promote spatial transformation in order to bring about a resilient, sustainable, quality and inclusive living environment in support of human well-being.
Capacity building of municipalities and other stakeholders, to improve their development planning intelligence, is critical in achieving a more resilient and sustainable environment, that will also empower an inclusive and transformative spatial economy.
The Directorate partners with the other Directorates in the Department to achieve a cohesive working environment that promotes learning, sharing and innovation.
The Directorate was established in 2015 as a response to the implementation of a new planning regime and has a transversal and transformational agenda.
The Directorate conducts research, gathers and develops intelligence and builds knowledge management platforms to support evidence-based development planning in the Western Cape.
The Directorate Development Planning Intelligence Management and Research was tasked with the development of a system that can measure spatial transformation and that would bring a broader planning intelligence and knowledge base to decision making processes in the Western Cape. 
We build decision making capacity of stakeholders and partners by collecting, analysing and sharing development planning data and information. 
We have been on a journey over the past few years to actively engage and systematically deal with gender mainstreaming in our work environment and through all of our technical mandate areas. 
Improvement of service delivery and socio-economic conditions in the Province are some of the focus areas of our work. Population projections and estimates provide a cost-effective tool for providing relevant information that meets the needs of planners in various sectors to guide development planning. 
We collaborate with internal and external partners to monitor and evaluate land use policy formulation, review and implementation. We lead in the maintenance of a development planning policy database. 
We conduct development planning research and define and lead a common research agenda with stakeholders.
SERVICES
Manage Development Planning Intelligence
Collection, engineering, analysis and sharing of relevant development planning data and information, in order to build capacity of stakeholders and support informed decision making and planning.
Conduct Development Planning Research
Define and lead a common development planning research agenda with stakeholders.
Coordinate Land Use Planning Policy
Collaborate with internal and external partners to monitor and evaluate land use policy formulation, review and implementation. We lead in the maintenance of a development planning policy database.
Publications:
Collaborations
Resource Centre for Development Planning:
A SharePoint online platform dedicated to the dissemination of Development Planning information and data. The platform was established as a first-generation sharing environment, to aid in decision making, collaboration, policy alignment and spatial transformation throughout the Province. The main themes on the site include:
Urbanisation, Migration and Population
Research Agenda and Resource Library
Should you wish to gain access to this Resource Centre, please contact enquiries.eadp@westerncape.gov.za. In the test phase, the Centre will only be accessible to practitioners employed in Municipalities and the Western Cape Government.
Helpful links
Environmental and Development Planning Atlas
The following sites can be linked to from the platform: SANBI, CapeNature and Western Cape Department of Agriculture.
South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas
SARVA is an initiative of the Department of Science and Innovation and forms a 10-year Global Change Grand Challenge.
SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOMATICS: Article: Adapting the Dyna-CLUE model for simulating land use and land cover change in the Western Cape Province.
Disaster Management Decision Support Tool
The Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002, Section 30 (c) and 32 (b) makes it compulsory for a Provincial Disaster Management Centre to have a database that contains all data relevant to disaster management. It also prescribes that this data be disseminated to all disaster management stakeholders.
National Geospatial Information
Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information Geospatial Portal facility provides a Geographical User Interface (GUI) for CD: NGI clients to interact with geospatial data and to download data content made available in the portal.
Financing more inclusive cities: The National Land Value Capture Programme works towards the institutionalisation of Land Value Capture tools and strategies in South African metros.
CONTACT PERSON
Director: Helena Jacobs
Intelligence Management: Riëtte Fourie
Policy Coordination: Natasha Murray
Research: Dylan Johnstone