EDD will achieve its aim and mandate by promoting economic policy development, coordination, planning, coherence and alignment: . on national economic policy development challenges and programmes; . through spatial economic development programmes; . through the mandates and work of state entities responsible for economic regulation and financing of economic development; . in interactions with business and organised labour to develop social consensus on economic development challenges, policies and responses; . in policy work that maximizes the economic development impact in the domestic economy in its interface with the global economy