Case Studies
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![Regional Action for Florida's Caloosahatchee River]()
Regional Action for Florida's Caloosahatchee River
CBI helped stakeholders from a four-county watershed coordinate an action plan to protect Florida’s endangered river and estuary.
At the request of the South Florida Water Management District, CBI helps stakeholders from a four-county watershed develop a vision and set of actionable priorities for protecting the Caloosahatchee River and Estuary.
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![Cross-Sector Collaboration for Extractive Industry Transparency Standards]()
Cross-Sector Collaboration for Extractive Industry Transparency Standards
CBI supports the U.S. Department of the Interior in a multi-stakeholder effort to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
CBI supports the Department of Interior in a multi-stakeholder effort to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
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![Reforming Energy Facilities Siting]()
Reforming Energy Facilities Siting
CBI helped streamline and expand stakeholder input to New Hampshire’s siting process for renewable energy generation and other energy facilities.
CBI and Raab Associates design and facilitate a state-wide process for New Hampshire citizens to improve the state's energy siting process for the legislature, leading to the passage of a new widely-supported energy siting law.
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![Developing Organizational Governance and Strategy in San Francisco]()
Developing Organizational Governance and Strategy in San Francisco
CBI facilitates structural and directional refinements to the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee.
CBI facilitates an organizational planning and restructuring effort for the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee aimed at improving it's efficacy around issues of climate change and economic development.
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![Gas-Electric Coordination: Industry Joint Fact Finding and Negotiation]()
Gas-Electric Coordination: Industry Joint Fact Finding and Negotiation
CBI organizes and facilitates a complex negotiation across natural gas industry.
CBI facilitates negotiations among natural gas producers, pipelines, and distribution companies on possible changes to the long-standing protocols for scheduling the flow of gas to customers.
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![Building Government Capacity for Conflict Resolution in Peru]()
Building Government Capacity for Conflict Resolution in Peru
CBI partners with the UNDP and Peru’s Defensoria del Pueblo to deliver a framework for mediated conflict engagement.
CBI assists the United Nations Development Programme in Peru in developing and delivering a course on consensus building to build the mediation capacity of the Peruvian Public Defenders Office, Defensoria del Pueblo.
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![Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality]()
Building Consensus on Improving Cape Cod Water Quality
CBI used public engagement and stakeholder input to improve water quality planning in a vulnerable coastal region on Cape Cod.
The Cape Cod Commission asks CBI to facilitate citizen engagement in a process to develop a regional plan to address the region's wastewater management problems, and generate a more effective and efficient regulatory environment for watershed plannng.
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![Community Engagement Skill Building and Training with Shell]()
Community Engagement Skill Building and Training with Shell
CBI collaborates with Shell to build community stakeholder engagement capacity.
CBI collaborates with Shell to build community stakeholder engagement capability through leading a customized training; creating an interactive, multimedia curricula; and helping company leaders bolster internal training resources.
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![Protecting Whales and Fishing Interests in Hawaii]()
Protecting Whales and Fishing Interests in Hawaii
When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harmed the local false killer whale population, mediators helped negotiators devise rules to protect the endangered species without cramping the fleet’s livelihood.
When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harms the local false killer whale population, CBI and CONCUR facilitate negotiations that lead to full consensus on management changes and research activities to reduce whale takes while preserving the fishing fleet's financial viability.
