Community consultation and liaison with landowners, government agencies and other stakeholders is a feature of the majority of our projects.
Gondwana Consulting operates with a commitment to collaborative, consultative, and a team-based approach. We have extensive experience in facilitating the input or involvement of clients, stakeholders, specialists, and the wider community.
In the public domain, we aim to ensure genuine and meaningful community consultation and participation in an open and transparent planning and decision-making process. We have a proven ability to engage stakeholders from a diversity of backgrounds. Our highly developed abilities and extensive experience in community and stakeholder liaison include communicating and working with community or interest groups; landholders, the tourism sector and other industry groups; state and local governments, commercial interests, MPs and lobbyists; and the wider community.
Our Core Services
- Project planning/design phase engagement
- Statutory approvals consultation
- Community and stakeholder liaison at construction phase
- Community engagement during project planning
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