CCCS Associates are competent in broad applications of social development approaches. We select our consultants for their grounded familiarity with different linguistic and cultural communities, garnered from extensive time in the field and applied project design and review experience. Many of our Associates have worked at international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, and bring to our project teams valuable experience in liaising between governments, companies and civil society and other stakeholder groups. Raising project in-house capacity. In our role as a social consultancy, CCCS prefers to work as a complement to local project teams. That is, we utilize our international experience to advise and empower local project teams to achieve global standards in their social analysis and project planning work. We find that it is best for international consulting teams not to simply and belatedly “review” planning measures and reporting documents, but rather to work together with local colleagues from the beginning to jointly plan all projects—combining local and international knowledge and know-how. We also actively seek out local experts, both women and men, who are themselves members of any ethnic minority groups affected by a proposed development initiative to join and guide our project teams. This locally-oriented expertise, combined with the depth of our corporate experience in all manner of social report preparation and implementation, enables CCCS to serve as a one-stop location for social development services.