SOCIAL BASELINE

Demonstrate the positive social and economic impacts of your project

The Social Baseline module helps identify potential socio-economic risks at the project development phase and plan accordingly to minimize their impacts. It measures the actual effects of a project on stakeholders and the environment, making it easier to manage compensations equitably, and helps organizations comply with global best practices.

See the big picture of your project’s
actual impacts over time

Plan, capture, measure, monitor, and report on the social and environmental impacts of your
activities over the lifetime of your project, including their effects on vulnerable people.

Reduce liabilities due to poor risk assessment

Identify the main social characteristics of impacted communities as well as strategic development opportunities.
Predict how the project will be affected by its social context and how local populations will cope with project impacts over time.
Centralize and standardize information about social impact coming from various sources.
Plan all social assessments for a project in one place to easily track study objectives.

Prove your project’s positive social and economic impact

Identify and monitor project impact on vulnerable people to better support their needs.
Analyze potential social impacts and implement measures to mitigate adverse effects and enhance benefits.
Demonstrate livelihood restoration or transition efforts.

Track the impacts of your activities over time and adjust course as needed

Centralize all the data collected over the lifetime of your project, from survey results to detailed lists of stakeholder assets for compensation, for thorough analysis.
Analyze economic and cultural changes in the affected region over time to identify risks and opportunities.
Get an overview of the data collected for each assessment.
Use the data collected over time to inform decision-making.

Comply with lender requirements, regulations, and industry standards

Easily generate lenders’ reports, corporate reports, and compliance reports according to international guidelines such as Social Impact Assessment (SIA), the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

Features that simplify social assessment

Easily share records & reports

It’s easy to share records and reports with colleagues in Borealis; you can even flag important points and add notes to offer more context. If you want to share the information with non-Borealis users (like external stakeholders) you can export the data as Excel or PDF files.

Built-in / customizable dashboards

Create your own monitoring dashboards from the built-in templates or make your own from scratch. Include KPIs, maps, tasks, lists, and graphs – whatever you need to keep an eye on. Add or modify dashboards as your project evolves over time.