ENABLING A COHERENT STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT 

Implementing projects for sustainable growth

astoneco management delivers expertise and guidance in the implementation of multi-stakeholder multi-disciplinary projects in partnership with boards of directors, management teams and relevant stakeholders. This results in strategies, plans and programs that enable sustainable business development, while ensuring the responsible management of community, stakeholder, environment, society and communication risks and opportunities.  

When facilitating the implementation of projects and/or organisational capacity building, the minimum perspectives considered are:

•   Company / organisation, 
•   Community, and
•   Authorities.  

 

Services include:

=> Management consulting for business clarity,

=> Stakeholders interaction risk assessment, including company, community, authorities, NGO and related stakeholder goals, risks and opportunity assessments,

=> Issue mapping, prioritisation and management,

=> Stakeholder mapping and engagement management and implementation,

=> Policies, standards, guidelines and procedures development for stakeholder related risk management,

=> Change and crisis management,

=> Stakeholder (internal and external) capacity building and trainings,

=> Sustainable Development (SD) strategy, plan and programs,

=> Corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, plans and programs,

=> Planning and project management of community investment programs,

=> Mediation for organisational, community or government engagement and development,

=> Partnership and multi-stakeholder forum development,

=> Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA),

=> Social Impact Assessments (SIA),

=> Environmental and social management strategies, plans, programs and monitoring,

=> Environmental monitoring & technologies,

=> Organisational readiness for the international social responsibility standard ISO26000,

=> Stakeholder communication (internal and external to organisation) for organisational development, projects, CSR, SD, community, environment, risks, health, etc, stakeholder issues,

=> Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidance to reporting,

=> Event creation for stakeholder engagement,

=> Communication material for environmental, social, economic and technical aspects of projects, communities and organisations,

=> Planning and Management of Public Participation Programs, and

=> Training and coaching programs as required.

 

Integration of sustainability as a core business practice is central to the success of our work. To maximise this, where possible, services are provided through:

=> Interviews, audits and workshops,

=> Stakeholder engagement events,

=> Tailored trainings, and

=> Technical assistance / coaching.

  

This approach not only ensures lasting success, it also ensures that experience gained during the assignment is left with the client once the job is done.

 

Tell me, I forget...
Show me, I remember...
Involve me, I understand...
Chinese proverb

 

Making sure that the human, social, financial, manufactured and natural resources are sufficiently, appropriately and effectively deployed and developed to manage risks and harness opportunities to successfully obtain your organisation’s goals is central to our management consulting.