Resilience Handover and Dual Accountability
Most community agreements are built to be signed, not to last. The negotiating team pushes hard for months, the ceremony happens, the photographs are...
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Most community agreements are built to be signed, not to last. The negotiating team pushes hard for months, the ceremony happens, the photographs are...
A mining company will sign many agreements over the life of a project. The ones it actually keeps are the ones the community watches, and the ones written...
Treat every promise a mining company makes as worthless until it carries a number, a date, and a consequence. That sounds harsh.
A community agreement signed fast to hit a financing window is not a settlement. It is a postponement, and the bill comes due later at a higher price.
A 30-minute call is enough for me to understand the situation and tell you honestly whether I can help. Active opposition, a social license problem, an FPIC process that needs an independent facilitator, a negotiation a community has to prepare for, or a conflict that is not public yet but will be. It makes no difference which side of the table you are on. No obligation, no generalist pitch.
Every first conversation is confidential.