Nonprofit Organizational Assessment

this, to adopt an advocacy role. For example, several SIAs carried out in Queensland,
Australia, have been conducted by consultants working for local Aboriginal communities
who oppose new mining projects on ancestral land. A rigorous SIA report, showing real
consequences of the projects and suggesting ways to mitigate these impacts, gives
credibility and provides evidence to take these campaigns to the planning officers or to
the courts.
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