FPIC validation

Peer-nominated orgs who can ground-truth and teach consent for Indigenous, local, and Afro-Descendant projects.

Why

We have seen dozens of cases in the last year of poorly executed FPICs. Rather than complain, we’d like to provide a solution. We are only able to do authentic FPIC because of great local advisors. We decided to make this service public as part of our Ethics program so everyone can learn.

  • Frankly, we've seen FPIC messed up by everyone, and regardless of their motivations. Including, multinational companies, multiple international governing bodies, cute regeneration projects, and everything in between.

  • We will check with people who actually know Indigenous and local governing law. To make sure you or your partners haven't intentionally, or unintentionally messed up your consent process. Then we will provide a simple, clear, and independent report why, or why not a project has been properly executed.

  • Sliding scale. The orgs in this list already do way too much FPIC advocacy and grievance processes for free. Free work is reserved for Indigenous nations. The price of this due-diligence cross-check is $5-$10k. Saving yourself from bad publicity, bad business partnerships, and extractive neo-colonialist relationships is priceless.

  • These orgs will probably refuse to work with you. They're going to be working for your investors, buyers, and certifiers instead and hopefully shutting you down.

  • Because we're the ones filing the international grievances when these processes are ignored. Every org on this list has been peer-reviewed for Indigenous competency and earned their nomination based on free, compliant, international advocacy.

Good FPIC is collective,
Great FPIC is experiential.

We’re dedicated to doing proper collective decision-making. This is a community meeting that occurred prior to a collective decision.