Stakeholder Engagement

Europe and the UK

Stakeholder Engagement forms an integral part of our Client's long-term biodiversity enhancement programme and goal to become a nature-positive organization.

IBC provided crucial technical guidance in the form of a Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement Process (SMEP) through which the Client gained an understanding of the purpose of such undertaking. The SMEP included an overview of the steps, tools, and methodologies necessary to conduct a sound pre-engagement analysis and determine the most suitable types of engagement to get data-based insights crucial to achieving the best possible outcomes for all stakeholders involved and/or affected by any planned undertaking or project.

Furthermore, our consultants worked closely with the client on a preliminary stakeholder analysis mapping matrix that contained components such as a stakeholder categorisation, classification, and scoring system.

Bahrain

IBC developed a stakeholder engagement framework and plan for a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) aligning to acceptable international standards from the IFC, World Bank and United Nations.

Stakeholder identification was initiated at the beginning of this project and was further developed and refined during this HRIA process. The criteria used in the stakeholder identification process included:

• Identifying the Project’s Area of Influence (AoI) in respect to human rights aspects taking into account areas of direct and indirect environmental and social influence
• Impacts that may occur during the Project’s life cycle
• Level of potential interest in the Project among local and national governmental authorities, and local/international NGOs; and
• Vulnerable groups requiring special engagement efforts.

Bioeconomies of the Amazon

World Bank Project

IBC are involved with providing technical services for a project focusing on bioeconomies of the Amazon region in South America involving a thorough stakeholder mapping process to determine locations of bioeconomies across Brazil, Columbia and Peru. IBC is providing technical inputs covering bioeconomies and biodiversity and ecology aspects.