Commonwealth Association of Planners

The discount codes for the CAP book, Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation and the Commonwealth: The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Past, Present and Future, have been extended and can now be used on the Routledge website until 31 December 2023.

CAP members can use code PSUC30 for 30% off your purchase.
Non-members can use code PSUC20 for 20% off your purchase.

The 2016 CAP Conference is now underway, see below link for news/updates...

CAP has been supporting a pilot project by the Prince’s Foundation for Building Communities (PFBC) to develop a toolkit to help planners in cities in developing countries across the commonwealth and beyond. This led to a very successful workshop that took place in Sierra Leone on 4th and 5th December 2017...

Traditional planning has to change and change quickly. This is the message that opens a new, free-to-download book. Leading Change: Delivering the New Urban Agenda through Urban and Territorial Planning was launched at the Ninth World Urban Forum in February 2018. It provides a short, easy to read advocacy of the way that planning practice can contribute to addressing some of the major challenges that the Commonwealth, and so also the world, faces in the 21st century...

CAP is currently in the process of electing our new President and members of the Board of Trustees. While this is a closed election, all of the candidates are extremely qualified and impressive and we wanted to give everyone a chance to get to know the potential new members of our leadership team.

Below, you will find the statements from all of our candidates, first from those running for the position of President, and next from those running for a position on the Board of Trustees...

IFHP is hosting an Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) in Belfast - incl. Dublin trip - to assist with the implementation of the UN Habitat's New Urban Agenda. They are delivering this UTC with their partners as part of the World Urban Campaign (WUC) .

Clive Harridge will representing CAP at the 'Urban Lab 3' event during the campus on the 1st of June...

The CAP Executive is very excited to announce that 3 new member institutes have joined our association. Welcome to the planners from the Zambia Institute of Planners, St Lucia Institute of Land Use Planners and the Planner’s Association of Dominica. In other news, preparations continue for United Nations Habitat 3 in October in Ecuador and details of the CAP 2016 Conference have been announced for 7-10 November in Fiji. It’s also been conference season around the world so updates from Canada, Caribbean, South Africa and the United Kingdom are ...

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...

At its biennial Business Meeting on 23rd – 25th November 2020, the CAP membership elected Eleanor Mohammed of Canada as its new President. Eleanor has worked alongside the outgoing President, Dyan Currie for the past six years in her role as President of CIP/ICU, the Canadian Institute of Planners. Eleanor is CAP’s first Canadian President. Congratulations to Eleanor!

Read more for details of the Business Meeting.

President Dyan Currie met with UN Habitat Executive Director General Maimunah Mohd Sharif recently while in Russia on 31/10 for the UN Habitat World Cities Day Observance. Ms Sharif is a planner by trade and was the Mayor of the City Council of Penang Malaysia before commencing office in UNH in 2018. Ms Sharif and President Currie were discussing the role of Stakeholders in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. President Currie is also the Co-Chair of the Stakeholder Advisory Group which was created in May as an global level consultative body and advisory body to the Executive Director.