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Helping you deliver social benefits

Since 2000, we've been helping companies, governments and community-based organisations around the world enhance the social impacts of large-scale development projects.

Strengthening the
role of business

Whether it's conducting a social impact and risk assessment or developing a resettlement action plan, we are passionate about the potential a company can have in a community, in a nation's economy and in the world.

Since 2000, 233 projects across 70 countries

At home in challenging, emerging markets, a good portion of our work centres on the natural resources sector, but our thought leadership and implementation skills have wide application to many fields.

Deepening REIPPPP's Community Development Impact

What can, and must be learned to improve community development in the REIPPPP, the largest renewable energy programme ever undertaken in South Africa?

Enlarging your team’s capacity

From training community relations practitioners in the extractives industry to in-house workshops on human rights, we're passionate about helping people connect theory and practice.

Community Relations Connect

Community Relations Connect is an emerging network for community relations and social performance practitioners throughout Africa. It is a community of practice for people to come together to share, learn and improve their practices.

New directions in social impact assessment

Conceptual and methodological advances

By: Paul Kapelus, Emily Richards and Hope Sherwin

Edited by Frank Vanclay, Professor of Cultural Geography,

University of Groningen, The Netherlands and

Ana M. Esteves – Director, Community Insights, The Netherlands