Societas is a Peruvian consulting firm that conducts social studies and projects to build knowledge and foster better social environments. Their multidisciplinary team provides services in areas like rural development, urban planning, extractive industries, and corporate social responsibility. Services include stakeholder mapping, social impact assessments, and strategic planning. The firm aims to design practical and responsible solutions for clients and facilitate dialogue between stakeholders.

1. Creating knowledge, producing better social environmentsPresentationMarch, 2011

2. Who we areSocietas is a consulting firm which conducts studies, designs and evaluates projects, develops communications and community relations strategies and provides advice on social issues.

3. Our multidisciplinary team is composed of highly professional consultants who guarantee solutions tailored to specific social contexts.SocietasMISSIONTo build useful knowledge and foster a better social environment. VISIONTo be a leading social management consulting firm in Peru, with a reputation for academic quality, technical experience and impeccable ethical conduct.

4. Our workRural development

5. Urban planning

6. State and public policy

7. Tourism

8. Corporate Social Responsibility - CSR

9. Extractive industries

10. EnvironmentStrategic actionsDesigning practical, strategic and responsible solutions for our partners to achieve their social objectives.Providing tools for decision-making in the social field.Facilitating dialogue between stakeholders to achieve common objectives and a better social environment. We guarantee this strategy by using applied, specific and interdisciplinary studies, our extensive knowledge of cross-cultural experience and by providing customized, sustained expert advice.

11. The social responsibility approachNegative impact management: externality control. Impact managementResponsibility to the surrounding community, above and beyond the direct benefits and impacts companies produce. CommitmentSocial management incorporated into the activities of the company and its contractors. Integrated management

12. Social management systemWe have developed anintegral approach that covers theproject cycle, both fordevelopment and private sectors. This approach is aligned with international standards such us the ISO 26000.PARTICIPATION

13. Products and servicesIDENTIFYING CRITICAL ISSUES AND STAKEHOLDERS

14. Stakeholder mapping

15. Social risk analysis

16. Social due diligence

17. ESTABLISHING THE CURRENT SITUATION

18. Social impact assessment, emphasizing gender

19. Local monitoring system

20. Analysis of regional and local political contexts