CCCS SERVICES

International Development

CCCS provides expert development consultation services with grounded sensitivity to local cultures, languages, and political environments according to international standards.

We help to mitigate adverse social and environmental impacts, especially those impacting on, indigenous groups, ethic minority populations, and other vulnerable groups by:

• advising private investors on environmental impact and social impact assessments and on their remediation and consultation plans and activities;
• providing assistance to governments to deal with negative environmental and social legacies;
• using best practice approaches and partnerships to develop consensus and best practices in the application of international laws and corporate guidelines before, during, and in follow-up to, project implementation;
• encouraging the preparation of strategic studies to assess the environmental and social costs of potential investment in a given area and to analyze potential alternatives.

Our consultants have decades of experience providing services to international development institutions, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and to the private corporate sector.

We specialize in:

• Indigenous Peoples Development Plans (IPDP)
• policy work, such as implementation guidelines and training
• Social Impact Analysis (SIA) and Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA)
• multi-stakeholder facilitations and conflict mediation

For all of these tasks we provide quality social research, analysis, and document preparation that are finely tuned both to local cultural and socio-political contexts as well as to “Good Practice” international social science standards. All CCCS reports are guaranteed to be written clearly, and (mostly!) absent of social science jargon.

CCCS can currently provide experts with the following language capabilities:

Cross-Cultural Brokering

CCCS Development Consultants are trained to perform specialized brokering services for situations where cultures collide, with special expertise on Asian and European cultures. Our consultants are trained to appraise ‘conflict’ situations and to facilitate dialogue, mitigation, and, ultimately, problem resolution.

Our brokering services include:

• Cross-Cultural Communication Workshops
• Diversity Seminars
• Corporate Conflict Resolution

Aware of the cultural differences that may create tension in professional workplaces, CCCS also provides the following services for multinational partnerships and collaborations:

• cultural / political / contextual research analysis
• cultural brokering for business contexts
• community-level field research (qualitative and quantitative)
• community workshop and focus-group facilitation

For examples of how CCCS has put our services into action, please refer to our projects section.