Between 2000 and 2009, CCCS worked sequentially for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and EBRD on their project teams to devise or revise their Indigenous Peoples policies. For each bank, we helped write the policy itself, met with indigenous representatives from many countries, held regional consultations, and advised the banks on stakeholder-sensitive strategies. For the World Bank and the ADB, CCCS also took the lead in preparing guidance handbooks for Bank staff. When the IFC prepared their own performance standard on Indigenous Peoples, it requested CCCS to review its draft proposals and to present in-house briefings to its social policy staff.
In 2012, the East Europe and Central Asia division of the World Bank (ECA) engaged CCCS to work with Indigenous Peoples in Russia to develop first a nation-wide profile of Indigenous peoples in the Russian Federation and later on a series of regional profiles.