SERVICES

LP assists companies, governments, financial institutions, and non-governmental organizations in identifying and realizing strategies and plans to govern and guide investment in regions, sectors, projects, and municipalities, impacted by the development of large scale projects. In particular, we specialize in grappling with the complicated challenges confronting rapidly changing regions and communities and help clients visualize, assess and manage change. Our strategies and plans culminate from engagement with stakeholder groups, indigenous communities, and the public. Success of these strategies and plans is measured by consensus-building and alignment at the corporate, community and project level. Our strategies and plans range from traditional urbanplanning and design to community readiness Initiatives.

Everything we do builds from a broad, inclusive and continuous process of relationship-building between a client and its stakeholders. This process includes a range of activities from community forums and participatory planning activities to group-specific workshops and informal dialogue, and is designed to span an entire project life cycle. In many cases, we lead our client’s engagement process on the ground, including forming and facilitating regional working groups and negotiations committees. To this end, LP strives to deliver improved community benefits through enhanced community participation, improved information flows, increased understanding of community perceptions of projects, and increased understanding of project information to stakeholders and the public. We also partner to analyze big data ranging from Social Media and Google to Mobile Device tracking to give our clients a clear view of perceptions locally and nationally. Our insights provide clients and communities the unprecedented ability to target the right issues with the right solutions, rather than using “scattershot” approaches to community relations. Lastly, we have led Duty to Consult processes in support of our projects.

LP assists its clients to better understand the risk and opportunitieswithin business and associated project-based investment. We also assistorganizations and impacted communities negotiate benefits associatedwith projects. We undertake socio-economic and spatial analysisincluding assessment of demographic, market and development trendsand scenarios of projects and associated economic multipliers at local,municipal and regional scales. Furthermore, we utilize project-basedsocial and economic data for the purposes of informing communityinvestment in support of acquiring a Social License to Operate.

We prepare and implement social management plans to help clients address specific impacts or risks in a comprehensive manner and in accordance with 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 adept at combining regulatory requirements with aspirational components of Social License to Operate within project governance, mitigation and consultation to streamline project approvals.