Commonwealth Association of Planners

Viral Desai, CAP YP Co-ordinator shares his thoughts on the CAP Business Meeting and Planning Africa 2018

Cape Town and CAP’s involvement in the Planning Africa Conference was excellent. The CAP Business Meeting was interesting with the WUF and Commonwealth Summit in the next two years there is a lot of room to be expanding the Young Planners agenda, our activities and promoting the SDGs further in the Commonwealth...

What are the key issues, barriers and solutions in engaging young people in the development process? At the CAP Business Meeting and Planning Africa Conference in Cape Town South Africa CAP Young Planners launched a new Call for Practice and Examples. We would like to hear your examples and practice about how you have engaged Young People in the Development Process...

The unprecedented Commonwealth Women in Planning Manifesto was endorsed by the Commonwealth Association of Planners at the Biennial Business Meeting in Cape Town on October 14, 2018. Developed in collaboration with over 35 women representing 11 countries, and with input from UN-Habitat, Women in Cities International, Women Transforming Cities, and Women in Planning (UK), this Manifesto serves as a united voice for women living and working in the built environment in communities around the world.

The inaugural CAP awards were announced on 16/10 in Capetown during the SAPI Planning Africa Conference and CAP biennial Business Meeting. With nominations received from across the Commonwealth, the independent panels of judges reviewed the entries in detail and awarded 4 commendations and 1 overall award for excellence...

Following an excellent response to the call for entries to the inaugural CAP Awards for Outstanding Planning Achievement in the Commonwealth our three eminent Judges (Trudi Elliott CBE, Professor Barbara Norman and Emeritus Professor Cliff Hague OBE) have identified a short list of entries ...

The Commonwealth Women in Planning (CWIP) Network focuses on gender equality and the participation of women in shaping the built environment. With this goal in mind, CWIP members will exchange knowledge, expertise, and experience on the role of women in the planning profession and the impact of planning and design on women’s safety, prosperity, and empowerment. CWIP is seeking participation from CAP member organizations as we develop a manifesto for the Network...

The recent survey of planning capacity across Commonwealth countries was widely quoted at the High Level Political Forum at the United Nations in New York in July. Representing the United Kingdom Built Environment Advisory Group, former president of the Royal Town Planning Institute, Janet Askew, attended the forum, which is held annually to discuss progress on the Sustainable Development Goals...

We are very pleased to announce that JOANNA PATTON (Canadian Institute of Planners) and WESSEL STRYDOM (South African Planning Institute) are the winners of the GBP £1,000 grants to attend the CAP biennial Business Meeting and Planning Africa Conference 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa 14-17 October 2018...

Clive Harridge joined representatives from The Prince’s Foundation, the Commonwealth Association of Architects and the Commonwealth Local Government Forum in a meeting with The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth at Marlborough House, London to discuss the opportunity provided by urbanisation to help deliver the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals...

Welcome to a special newsletter celebrating the CAP involvement at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in April. The theme of CHOGM was ‘Towards a Common Future‘...