Practice
Social facilitation is broken — and box-checking is why
When engagement is a compliance event, communities learn that talking changes nothing. The fix is a trail: who was heard, what was promised, what closed.
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Social licence for infrastructure that has to move.
Chibase Consulting is a social facilitation and advisory practice. We help infrastructure, mining, energy, and public-sector programmes in South Africa and the Global South earn and keep a Social Licence to Build — through community participation, MEL, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and a desk you can audit.
Try the preview desk. Counts are yours, in this browser. A real programme keeps the trail in a TrustLedger trial.
TrustLedger
Preview desk · this browser only
Add mock cases, people, and promises. This is not a workspace and is never saved to Cloud. Keep a real trail on a 14-day own-data trial.
Open cases
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Named people
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Promises
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Empty desk. Add a case, a named person, or a promise — the counts update as you go.
Packages
Listed starter engagements — one programme or site, ZAR excl. VAT. Not a TrustLedger software seat. Larger work is scoped on request.
Social facilitation sprint
Consultations that do not vanish after the meeting: named counterparts, traditional authorities, and a commitment log with owners.
R 95 000
About two weeks on one site · excl. VAT
MEL & evidence
Monitoring that cites the trail — grievances, engagements, promises — not a reconstructed month-end pack.
R 125 000
Evidence spine for one programme · excl. VAT
IKS method embed
Indigenous Knowledge Systems as method for participation and M&E, not a courtesy paragraph in the ESIA.
R 110 000
Method embed for one team or programme · excl. VAT
Short-cycle field intervention
When a site is already in friction, we diagnose and de-escalate with people on the ground. A consulting deployment, not a software division.
R 185 000
Short-cycle deployment on one live site · excl. VAT
The desk we built
TrustLedger is Chibase’s SRM software: grievance desk, stakeholder registry, engagements, commitments, and evidence packs. Consulting is people and method. The product is the trail those people keep.
Short notes
Risk
The cockroach theory: local structures adapt faster than your organogram
Host communities reorganise around a project whether you map them or not. Ignore customary and ward structures and you will meet them at the gate.
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