The EDP is a public benefit collaborative intermediary organisation that supports diverse stakeholders to harness each other’s energy, knowledge and resources for collective impact and change to improve development outcomes. The EDP designs, facilitates and enables processes for change which help partners develop capabilities to deal with complex societal issues which involve many stakeholders, diverging interests, polarised environments and uncertainty. Specifically, the EDP builds and strengthens relationships between state and society to enable effective communication and collaboration and to strengthen state capacity, based on its experience of working within diverse public sector environments.