☑️ Este es el espíritu de nuestra asesoría:
At EIS Ambiental, we approach indigenous and community participation as a technical, regulatory, and strategic component of the environmental assessment system.
It is not a matter of fulfilling a requirement, but rather of creating real conditions for impact, territorial legitimacy, and institutional strength. Our consulting services combine expertise in regulation, an intercultural approach, and social risk management, supporting communities with clear information, validated technical criteria, and tools for effective and traceable participation.
❌ Esto no representa nuestro trabajo:
We do not adhere to advisory services that fragment communities, break down dialogue, or judicialize processes as a strategy. That model, obsolete for more than a decade, has been rejected by the Supreme Court and Environmental Courts, which today recognize structured, informed, and traceable participation as a legitimate means of advocacy. Our approach promotes technically sound, legally consistent, and sustainable processes for all stakeholders.
EIS-Ambiental
Community Services
Technical support in SEIA processes
Expert support to understand, participate in, and safeguard collective rights when projects enter the Environmental Impact Assessment System. The senior team at EIS Ambiental knows the system from the inside: they have worked at the Environmental Assessment Service (SEA), the Superintendency of the Environment (SMA), CONADI, major mining companies, and the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH).
Assessment of social impacts on the indigenous human environment
We apply a pioneering methodology in Chile, developed together with communities, which not only detects impacts but also highlights and strengthens the territory, culture, and customs. Peoples are not subjects of study: they are active participants in the process.
Baseline Studies with a Social Impact Focus
Communities actively participate in the development of human environment baselines and relevant studies. These documents are key to assessing impacts and building a fair and transparent relationship with projects.
Advice on indigenous consultation processes
Technical and strategic support at all stages of the consultation process, strengthening self-determination, informed dialogue, and respect for collective rights.
Design and consulting on socio-environmental monitoring plans
We assist in the design, implementation, and monitoring of socio-environmental monitoring plans that integrate technical knowledge with local perceptions, priorities, and expertise. These plans can be participatory or co-constructed within the framework of the relationship with industry.
Design and support in the implementation of Development Plans / Life Plans
As part of our efforts to strengthen autonomy, we develop plans that are aligned with the communities' ways of life and customs, using a participatory methodology and building budgets that ensure that the priorities of indigenous organizations are reflected at every stage of the process.
Insurance Environmental Monitoring Plans
We provide technical support and training so that communities can monitor compliance with voluntary environmental measures and commitments by landowners in community territories through strategies that incorporate the administrative and traditional structures of community organizations.
Human Rights Due Diligence
Training and support program designed to help communities build their own human rights risk management systems. This process allows them to identify, assess, prevent, and monitor potential impacts arising from business or government activities, strengthening local governance and community advocacy capacity in the protection of their human and collective rights.
CLPI from community autonomy
Work aimed at developing an understanding of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), addressing key questions such as: what does FPIC mean for the community, with the development of key compliance indicators for its attainment; when is it activated; how can it be demanded in relation to projects or measures likely to impact the community; and how is it sustained as an active right over time.