About SCDP

SCDP CONSULTING LIMITED (SCDP) is a consultancy operation registered under the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is a firm of social performance professionals with a specialist competency in stakeholders’ management, community engagement, and development practice, community benefit systems governance, and management services in oil, gas, and mining. Our Mission is to provide specialist social performance practice solutions to minerals sector stakeholders, especially host communities and upstream energy companies. We engage strategically and collaboratively with critical stakeholders to deliver needed solutions. Our team has unique competency which we deploy in favour of our clients in a way that protects communities, and local resources, facilitates stable and peaceful upstream activities, prevents, or manages mineral project-induced conflicts, and facilitates meaningful, value-enhancing, and sustainable social investment projects in host communities.

9+

Years of Experience

Vision

To facilitate the entrenchment of a culture of cooperation, collaboration, and partnership in which the legal and existential interests of each stakeholder are secured.

Mission

Our mission is to help stakeholders in the oil, gas, and mining sectors to facilitate stable, conflict-free, and mutually beneficial commercial relationships in upstream mineral operations through proactive, structured, and sustained engagement frameworks in which all interests are assured.

Subject Matter Expertise

 

Our areas of core competency include

  • location-specific host or impacted community engagement methodology planning and administration
  • Host Community Development Trust (HCDT) advisory services
  • Community sustainability investment planning and structuring
  • Sustainable community development modeling and management
  • Spatial planning and social investment leveraging
  • Community benefit system structuring
  • Value-for-money auditing of social investment portfolios in energy projects
  • Community-related social-risk profiling, mitigation, and management
  • Social-environmental impact analysis and auditing
  • Community development agreement advice
  • Training and capacity building
  • Community content analysis
  • Local content advisory and host community law and policy advisory services

Our team has unique competency