Social Management Plans

We prepare and implement a variety of social management plans to help clients manage specific impacts or risks in a comprehensive manner and in accordance with international best practices.

Our plans typically reflect extensive stakeholder engagement activities, including a range of disclosure, consultation, participatory planning and - where appropriate - negotiation activities. We are committed to communities and to restoring livelihoods in areas affected by natural resources projects. We have extensive experience developing and implementing livelihood plans as a component of overall community development.

Our services include the preparation and implementation of the following:

Stakeholder engagement plans that actively develop and sustain constructive relationships with affected communities and other stakeholders throughout the project.

Land management and resettlement plans that set out the policies, procedures, compensation rates, mitigation measures and schedule for the compensation and, if applicable, resettlement of project-affected people. These plans are developed in collaboration with communities and government representatives and with the participation of other key stakeholders.

Community health and safety plans that guide the client, government and community members in managing the health and safety risks to the project workforce and area communities.

Data collection and management plans that collect and manage socio-economic data in a comprehensive manner, using state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS).

Community development plans that maximize the project's impact as a catalyst for the broad-based, sustainable development of the local area, in large part by incorporating stakeholder input in the identification of problems, challenges and implementable solutions. Community development plans aim at restoring the livelihoods of the economically displaced to at least an equivalent level as before their displacement.

Worker housing plans that meet client needs for healthy, innovative, low-cost housing solutions and community needs for positive or mitigated social, economic and environmental impacts.

Influx and speculation management plans that mitigate the causes and consequences of in-migration directly linked to project activities, in order to reduce the risk to project security and community stability.

Local employment plans that maximize local capture of the direct, indirect and induced employment generated by a project.

Monitoring and evaluation plans that provide project managers, project affected people, communities and project financiers with timely, concise information on whether a project's social management plans are on track to achieve their goals or in need of adjustment.