What We Do

The company’s work falls into four broad categories:

Policy support

We assist our clients to develop policies, which in the past have included:

national and municipal infrastructure investment and finance,
income, tariff and subsidy policies,
municipal performance management, and
municipal service regulation.

Strategic planning

We assist clients with strategic planning, including:

economic planning,
infrastructure investment and financial planning,
regulatory strategies,
development planning, and
environmental management.

Management Support

The company provides management support to clients, in, amongst others, the areas of:

public-private partnerships,
establishment of new business practices,
institutional and organisational transformation and corporatisation, and
financial planning.

Research

The company undertakes research in the fields of water and sanitation, infrastructure economics, and public finance. This emphasis on research makes PDG unusual for a private firm, influencing its work profile and the structure of its organisation. The professional staff is highly qualified and the company has established relationships with a number of universities.

The sectors in which we work are explained in our Practice Areas.

“There's an ideological commitment that goes through the work they do and how they relate to other stakeholders, a strong commitment to working in partnership that you don't always get with consultancies. They have an appreciation that they can benefit from engagement and partnership with others, that’s a key thing I like.”

PDG Client Survey, 2011

“They’re on their own in their class. If you want a job done well, accurately and quickly you go to PDG. I’m not a fan of consultants, but PDG consistently deliver high quality under pressure.”

PDG Client Survey 2007

"They are knowledgeable, they understand the municipal markets and can link disparate initiatives together. .”

PDG Client Survey, 2011

"The ability to deliver a quality product in a turbulent context in an engaging and stimulating way. …. If it wasn’t for their input the whole project would have collapsed – they were appointed at a very difficult time and their work ramped us up to another level.”

PDG Client Survey, 2011

"They try to leverage the linkages, to make sure it actually works in a development context.”

PDG Client Survey, 2011