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Development Action Group (DAG)
DAG, a leading NGO in the urban sector, was established in 1986 when a group of built environment professionals and development practitioners came together to establish an organisation offering technical and professional advice to Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and community groups threatened with forced removal in Cape Town. DAG has three integrated programmatic result areas - participatory urban governance; housing and human settlements; and capacity building. These are implemented through a seven-step methodology: building strategic partnerships; citizen mobilisation; capacity building; research; advocacy/lobbying; demonstration projects; and learning from practice.
Our legal status
- DAG is a Non-Profit Company without Members (Registration number: 1993/006859/08)
- DAG is a registered Non-Profit Organisation (Registration number: 006-194 NPO)
- DAG is an Approved Public Benefit Organisation with South African tax exemption (Registration number: 930016961)
Our Staff and Board
As at March 2014, DAG had 22 permanent staff members (55% female and 45% male); 72% of DAG staff members are black; 60% of DAG's Board of Directors is black, 40% of who are female. As a learning and capacity building organisation, DAG offers numerous internships to young graduates who work alongside our staff on dedicated project teams to gain hands on experience in the urban development sector.
Our programmes
By its very nature, DAG’s work is predominantly oriented towards the most vulnerable and marginalised people in society, i.e. those earning less than 250 GBP per month who qualify for the PHP housing subsidy. With an unambiguous pro-poor agenda, our programmes and projects seek far-reaching integration (class, ethnicity, gender and youth), improved accessibility (access to public transport, employment and other higher order amenities and facilities), sustainability (city compactions /densification, triple-bottom-line approaches and ecological sensitive design) and democratic urban governance (improved processes around citizenship and participation). Our programmes are designed to effect redistributive justice, the reversal of apartheid spatial patterns and planning practices and exclusionary land management, so that all South African citizens, especially the more marginalised urban citizens (particularly vulnerable groups and women) can claim a ‘right to the city’ that translates into more vibrant, re-imagined human settlements and equitable access to social, economic and cultural opportunities in post- Apartheid South Africa.
