Isandla Institute facilitated a series of open-ended dialogues with former political activists to commemorate ten years of political freedom and signal what a more expansive and holistic development approach should entail. This resulted in a book project and the publication Voices of the Transition, which was published by Heinemann in 2004.

Voices of the Transition (2004) - ISBN-10: 0796209707; ISBN-13: 978-0796209702

A series of reports were drafted for the Cape Metropolitan Council, setting out how urban poverty can best be defined and understood, 1998-1999.

: Isandla Institute coordinated a report for the Unicity Commission on a 15-year development framework for the Cape Town Metropolitan Area, 2000.

Isandla Institute drafted a national policy framework on local economic development designed to increase the capacity of municipalities to work with local stakeholders and establish economic development strategies. The input paper was used as a basis by DPLG to draft the official government policy, 1999-2000.