LEAD strategies support community members in gathering information, organizing campaigns, and building skills that they can use to defend their rights. EarthRights did not invent these strategies but has documented them to grow the community of practitioners who are ready and able to support community-led campaigns.
A way for communities to document their physical, social, and cultural environment. It helps communities to communicate the value of their natural resources and provides baseline information that they can use to track changes over time. LEARN MORE.
The CHIA framework was developed by Somporn Pengkam in Thailand. It combines community information-gathering to document a project’s potential impacts with outside expertise on issues such as health, the environment, and law. LEARN MORE.
Guidance on supporting communities that are responding to an EIA. While countries have different EIA laws, there are common options that potentially impacted communities have to respond: boycott the process, challenge the EIA, or intervene and raise concerns about the project. LEARN MORE.
A strategy where the community proposes and negotiates for what benefits they want from a project and/or how they want the complaint process to work if the project causes harm. LEARN MORE.