Monitoring Relationships

Monitoring Relationships The Spectrum of Engagement The Spectrum of Community-Company Engagement is the framework for goal setting and monitoring progress toward building trustful and mutually beneficial relationships. Communities and companies use the Spectrum to track changing perceptions of their relationship.

The Community-Company Assessment

The Community-Company Assessment Priorities The CCA supplements typical assessment processes with inductive data gathering. This ensures that community and company priorities are determined by the two parties and not by the consultant. Qualitative Data Analysis A special capacity of BCS teams is the systematic collection, organization and analysis of large amounts of qualitative data gathered … Read more

Who We Are

BCS is a network of experts located around the world who are seeking to equalize power relations and enable a level playing field for the many actors affected by natural resources extraction, so there is net mutual benefit for companies and communities. BCS has its foundations in international development practice in the nonprofit sector—a context … Read more

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Business-Community Synergies (BCS) Business-Community Synergies (BCS) is a small, networked, international firm specializing in impact assessments, participatory research and evaluations, and capacity building services to public and private sector clients in the context of extractive industries’ operations. Our insights and know-how provide practical solutions to build long-term value for all stakeholders. We work with select … Read more

Our methodology

The BCS conceptual framework is centered on trust-building, achieved in practice through engagement in the Community-Company Assessment (CCA) process and monitored using the Spectrum of Engagement.BCS is unique in focusing on trust as the fulcrum of sustainable, mutually-beneficial relationships between communities and companies where they live and work. By making trust-building the basis for engagement, … Read more

Capacity Development

Capacity Development and Training Central to all BCS work is capacity building of different stakeholder groups to promote and support an even playing field amongst unequal actors. Our work has strengthened the capacity of corporate officials and donor agencies to interact constructively with communities and of community groups to negotiate effectively with large corporations and … Read more

Custom Solutions

Custom Solutions BCS leads special studies that answer pressing questions in the absence of sufficient or rigorous research to guide solutions. These studies have focused on transparency, accountability, best practice and participatory approaches. In Mali, BCS carried out a study for Oxfam America describing the process of gold mining and tracing the pathways of mining … Read more