Services

We offer comprehensive services to address challenges and opportunities for Indigenous Nations, industry, and government clients across four critical areas.

Negotiation

Our negotiation services provide expert advice and understanding of all the pieces required to ensure an effective and strategic negotiation approach to enhance long-lasting partnerships:
  • Identification of Host Communities: Identify key communities of interest to de-risk your project.
  • Protocol/Budget Development: Craft process and funding agreements, as well as development and management of budgets.
  • Team Assembly: Advisory support on assembling the best team of subject-matter experts to align with your approach.
  • Logistics and Documentation Support: Handle meeting logistics and document control, including minutes and tracking action items.
  • Lead or Advisory Support: Support your negotiation team as negotiators or advisors.
  • Budget Management: Oversee budgets and financial reporting.
  • Alignment with Project Team: Coordinate with the Project Team to align strategy and ensure that negotiation progress advances on a parallel track to consultation.
  • Business Relationships: Foster mutually beneficial business relationships for communities, contractors and suppliers through effective joint ventures and other partnerships.

Implementation

We provide practical advice and strategies for implementing agreement commitments.
  • Gap Assessment: Conduct comprehensive gap assessments to identify compliance risks and opportunities.
  • Capacity: Help leaders and teams understand and implement agreement commitments. 
  • Compliance Support: Co-develop roadmaps and work plans to resolve compliance gaps. 

Consultation & Engagement

Our engagement and consultation services facilitate constructive, strategic decision-making and create collaborative community engagement.
  • Stakeholder Communications: Develop inclusive communication strategies, including messaging, content, delivery, and methods.
  • Consultation Strategy and Support: Develop and implement strategies for meaningful consultation, including creating Consultation Records for permitting and regulatory compliance.
  • Community Engagement: Organizing community engagement, briefing project and technical teams, producing clear meeting summaries and records, and tracking and documenting issue resolution.  
  • Policies: Formulate strategies and procedures for managing social risk, impacts and opportunities, such as Community Investment Programs.

Opportunity & Risk Assessment

We offer experienced advice to help you understand project-specific community risks and opportunities and facilitate strategic decision-making regarding activities, including mergers and acquisitions.
  • Engagement Document Discovery: Assess and organize all engagement records to better understand engagement chronology and critical decisions affecting community relationships.
  • Review of Agreements: Our team’s expertise in reviewing existing agreements ensures a deep understanding of signatory commitments, relationship expectations, and implementation.
  • Strategy: Support the development of engagement and relationship strategy based on engagement history, best-practice and regional benchmarks.

We can help you:

  • spark meaningful dialogue
  • foster stronger partnerships
  • negotiate impactful agreements
  • turn agreements into action
  • implement and fulfill commitments

Let’s connect and explore how Civita can transform and support your community relations strategy.

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