Practice Areas
PDG undertakes national scale public finance policy work; assists provinces to better support municipalities; and carries out financial planning and strategy work directly for municipalities. At national level, we have conducted research and analysis to support policy development with respect to tariffs, property rates, capital and operating grant mechanisms, as well as supporting clients with the roll-out of policy. Our work directly for municipalities is typically based on a set of financial models, developed and refined over the years, including long term financial planning tools and financial viability models for individual municipal services. Over the past decade, we have built up specific experience with tariff setting and the affordability of services, including the development of tools to set tariffs and to test their affordability. |
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PUBLIC FINANCE
MONITORING & EVALUATION | PDG’s M&E Practice Area focuses on strengthening monitoring and evaluation in the public sector to facilitate evidence-based learning, performance improvement and broader societal accountability. PDG has contributed to the development of public sector evaluation practice by designing a national quality assessment system and an evaluation management information system and through undertaking flagship evaluations for national and provincial government. Through our in-depth understanding of the local government environment we have acquired unique expertise in municipal M&E systems. Our staff are active members of the South African Monitoring & Evaluation Association (SAMEA). |
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MONITORING & EVALUATION
URBAN ECONOMIES | The Urban Economies Practice Area prides itself in its expertise in looking ‘under the bonnet’ of observed sectoral and system-wide trends by harnessing a wide array of administrative, operational and 3rd party data and, by means of bespoke interaction models, create the evidence-base for supporting decision-making in the public interest. PDG provides analytical support in a range of fields requiring a longer-term perspective, such as spatial planning and land use management, economic development, property development and urban management, and transport and related infrastructure planning. |
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URBAN ECONOMIES
MUNICIPAL SERVICES | The Municipal Services Practice Area focuses on the engineering services of water, sanitation, electricity, roads, stormwater and solid waste, as well as the interactions between these services. The objective of the practice area is ultimately to improve the speed, scale and quality of municipal services through providing evidence and facilitating strategic processes to support decision making around how municipalities provide their mandated services. We work at the local scale providing research, analysis and planning work for metro, local and district municipalities, as well undertaking policy work at national and provincial scales. |
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MUNICIPAL SERVICES
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT | PDG has a strong track record in environmental economics and management services to public sector clients. More recently, our services included providing technical advice for mainstreaming climate resilience into catalytic land development programmes and infrastructure investments to support cities. With the anticipated promulgation of the Climate Change Act, municipalities will require support to understand their new mandate and to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation resilience into their development planning. Harnessing its extensive experience at the local government level, PDG’s vision is to support municipalities integrate climate change responses into their municipal planning and municipal budgets, develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess climate related programmes and improve municipal access to climate finance. Partnering with our network of experts and specialist subconsultants, we can apply a multi-disciplinary approach to address the complexity of the challenges our clients face in this field. |
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CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
PUBLIC FINANCE
PDG undertakes national scale public finance policy work; assists provinces to better support municipalities; and carries out financial planning and strategy work directly for municipalities. At national level, we have conducted research and analysis to support policy development with respect to tariffs, property rates, capital and operating grant mechanisms, as well as supporting clients with the roll-out of policy. Our work directly for municipalities is typically based on a set of financial models, developed and refined over the years, including long term financial planning tools and financial viability models for individual municipal services. Over the past decade, we have built up specific experience with tariff setting and the affordability of services, including the development of tools to set tariffs and to test their affordability.
PUBLIC FINANCE
MONITORING & EVALUATION
PDG’s M&E Practice Area focuses on strengthening monitoring and evaluation in the public sector to facilitate evidence-based learning, performance improvement and broader societal accountability. PDG has contributed to the development of public sector evaluation practice by designing a national quality assessment system and an evaluation management information system and through undertaking flagship evaluations for national and provincial government. Through our in-depth understanding of the local government environment we have acquired unique expertise in municipal M&E systems. Our staff are active members of the South African Monitoring & Evaluation Association (SAMEA).MONITORING & EVALUATION
URBAN ECONOMIES
The Municipal Services Practice Area focuses on the engineering services of water, sanitation, electricity, roads, stormwater and solid waste, as well as the interactions between these services. The objective of the practice area is ultimately to improve the speed, scale and quality of municipal services through providing evidence and facilitating strategic processes to support decision making around how municipalities provide their mandated services. We work at the local scale providing research, analysis and planning work for metro, local and district municipalities, as well undertaking policy work at national and provincial scales.
URBAN ECONOMIES
MUNICIPAL SERVICES
PDG supports the evolution of a sound framework for public institutions with specific attention to the relationships between them, and between state institutions and the private sector. PDG builds on considerable experience with intergovernmental relations and the powers and functions of the spheres and tiers and government with effective regulation being a central part of the framework. Municipalities play a central role in the functioning of the government system and PDG supports this through policy development relating to the inter-governmental system, regulation of local government activities, the role of parastatals and the interface with the private sector and civil societyMUNICIPAL SERVICES
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Urban Economies Practice Area prides itself in its expertise in looking under the bonnet’ of observed sectoral and system-wide trends by harnessing a wide array of administrative, operational and 3rd party data and, by means of bespoke interaction models, create the evidence-base for supporting decision-making in the public interest. PDG provides analytical support in a range of fields requiring a longer-term perspective, such as spatial planning and land use management, economic development, property development and urban management, and transport and related infrastructure planning.
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
PDG has a strong track record in environmental economics and management services to public sector clients. More recently, our services included providing technical advice for mainstreaming climate resilience into catalytic land development programmes and infrastructure investments to support cities. With the anticipated promulgation of the Climate Change Act, municipalities will require support to understand their new mandate and to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation resilience into their development planning. Harnessing its extensive experience at the local government level, PDG’s vision is to support municipalities integrate climate change responses into their municipal planning and municipal budgets, develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess climate related programmes and improve municipal access to climate finance. Partnering with our network of experts and specialist subconsultants, we can apply a multi-disciplinary approach to address the complexity of the challenges our clients face in this field.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT