With our depth of experience in Indigenous Peoples policy formulation, any project that has to design an approach to Indigenous Peoples issues can do no better than to contact CCCS.
CCCS has served on policy design teams for the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). We have co-written, edited and reviewed these institutions’ policy implementation guidebooks and staff training manuals. Putting policy into practice, we have also designed the social development strategies for projects now commonly cited as global Good Practice examples. CCCS has also helped to analyze operational parameters for use of Country Safeguard Systems, and has supplied the ADB, European Investment Bank (EIB) and IFC with policy recommendations for implementing the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent.
Similarly, Greg has written the Guidance Note for EBRD’s 2019 Indigenous Peoples policy, served on the ADB Indigenous Peoples policy team (including contributing analyses of operational parameters for FPIC) and written the ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement Guidebook on Indigenous Peoples. In 2025 Greg served as the co-author of the World Bank’s Implementing FPIC Stakeholder Engagement in Geothermal Projects: Technical Guidelines.
With an “insider” perspective, CCCS can efficiently help clients assess project social interventions and draft reporting documents against institutional and international standards. Perhaps more importantly, our close involvement in the drafting of Indigenous Peoples social safeguards policies and IFI implementation guidebooks gives us the unique capacity to go a step or two beyond project safeguard compliance, anticipating and helping clients to achieve recognition as international trend-setters.
Let CCCS serve your project by providing your management with the insights into social policy formation that experience brings.