About Us
Who We Are
Social Performance Advisory (SP Advisory) is an integrated Social Performance, Public Affairs and Strategic Communications consultancy company specializing in providing strategic advise and execution of effective social performance, stakeholder engagement, policy and risk management, and strategic communications.
We posses an in-depth understanding of the economic and social contexts that companies operating in Kenya need. Our extensive workings & interaction with governments, communities and international companies have granted us exceptional knowledge & experience of County and National Governments mechanisms. This places us very strategically in provision of purposeful advice & valuable insights for our clients.
SP Advisory also advises on opportunities enhancing and risk mitigation measures to support companies in their contractual negotiations with governments and engagements with local businesses and communities. In this way, we ensure that companies not only achieve their business objectives but also contribute to local, county and national development goals.
Sectors: Oil & Gas, Mining and Infrastructure
Social Operation License
“If you don’t get it right above the ground, you cannot get the stuff underground”
Non-technical risks are a major cause of project delays and failures across the world. Social license to operate are a key asset and should be a major priority.
Cause and Effect
- Social risk is a major cause of project cost escalations as a result of community disruptions and delays.
- Extractive and infrastructural developments taking place in socio-economic and environmentally challenging locations.
- Communities & governments (National and County) have become more assertive; they want a ‘development dividend’.
- Increased pressure from advocacy groups and impact of reputational risk on share value.
- Project financing- IFC/Equator principles critically incorporating environmental & social risks.
- Modern media
“All we do is simply excavate…does that mean you will stay out of the politics and social issues?”
Economic processes interact with power dynamics and decision-making processes at community level. Research & experience have proven that some communities gain from corporate presence and others do not. Hence company-community relations are critical in the success of extractive and infrastructural projects.
Corporate impacts can be either positive or negative but in any context of social and political dynamics, they can never be neutral.
When societies are unstable or in conflict, external factors that enter these societies become part of the society and their activities feed into, exacerbate, and prolong instability and conflict, or feed into, reinforce, and support systems that support stability & development.
Your success is a direct function of your external environment.
“Get it right or get it wrong”
