• Choose team members according to skills
• Become a Legal Entity
• Teach the corporation how to interact with your community.

#2 Predict All the Impacts of the Project

• Good predictions mean good decisions
• Including women and women's knowledge improves predictions
• Be skeptical of predictions of great wealth
• Leave broad margins of error in predictive modelling

#3 Don't Be Left Out

• Be alert for new projects
• Pre-empted decisions? - hang in there!
• To be effective participate fully
• Establish financing for your participation
• Train to be involved in the assessment
• Participation by women will improve the assessment
• Use communication techniques to meet your needs
• Working with the media: be message driven, not question-driven

#4 Know the Rules

• Government sets the rules, the corporation defines the process
• Establish your own spokespersons
• Enhance your power base: include others
• Ask lots of questions
• Translation is important
• Women help interpret the rules
• Negotiate the timeline
• Preserve your customary aboriginal rights

#5 Use Your Traditional Knowledge,Don't Give It Away

• Transmit traditional knowledge on your own terms
• Distinguish between ancient and modern traditional knowledge
• Participatory use of traditional knowledge can be better than selling it
• Traditional knowledge of women is often invisible
• Become a legal entity
• Shape your traditional knowledge access agreements carefully

#6 Insist on Your Rights, Know Your Bottom-Line

• Know your rights
• Safeguard your rights
• Settle the question of land ownership before you agree to the project
• State your limits to the project
• Do a cost-benefit analysis
• Third-party arbitration can help

#7 Find Out What the Corporation Knows and How It Operates

• Classify land use from your perspective first
• Challenge scientific findings
• Create a report card on the corporation's past

#8 Know What You Need

• Get a technical summary
• Prepare a community list of questions
• Hire someone you trust to interpret science-based knowledge
• Protect your community from societal impacts of alcohol, drugs, diseases, migration to cities

#9 Find Out What They Want From You

• Begin a full dialogue

#10 Don't Be Outmanoeuvred

• Resist unreasonable demands
• Too little time can lead to poor decisions
• Insist on meaningful consultation
• Do not allow anyone to undermine the credibility of traditional knowledge
• Do not accept a disregard for community standards
• Insist on open door negotiations including indigenous people

#11 Inform and Involve Neighbouring Communities

• Define direct effects
• Define indirect effects
• If you are the neighbour, become informed

#12 Communicate Directly with Government Agencies

• Do not rely on second-hand information - go to the sources
• Use international and national protocols

CORPORATE GUIDELINES
#1 Local Customs and Etiquette Are Important

• Carry out socioeconomic research on the community before contact
• Consider training for staff who will interact with indigenous people
• Tread carefully emdash protocol is important throughout the project

#2 Predict All the Impacts on the Community

• Define key issues and concerns to save time and money
• If impacts will be serious, international attention may result
• Combining science and traditional knowledge markedly improves predictions

#3 Don't Leave Indigenous People Out!

• Include indigenous people right from the beginning to avoid disputes
• Help the community to become involved - it improves relationships
• Financing community participation prevents charges of excluding the community
• Include the community in managing and monitoring the on-going project

#4 It's to Your Advantage to Play Straight

• You need to help the local community to understand the corporation's needs
• Culture clash can be harmful to both parties - be careful
• Working with local people is beneficial to both parties

#5 Communicate So That Indigenous People Understand

• An empathetic attitude is important to success
• Work in groups
• Get the information across in an easy to grasp manner
• Evaluate the success of your communication
• Give people the needed time
• You may be a health risk to indigenous people -be careful

#6 Intellectual, Cultural, and Traditional Resource Rights

• Determine the rights of the indigenous community for your own benefit
• Settle land ownership disputes before initiating the project
• Customary aboriginal rights need to be settled early

#7 Work with Traditional Knowledge

• Site-specific traditional knowledge is of great value to a project
• Partner indigenous people, the value added is immense
• Traditional knowledge and the work of indigenous people is not free

#8 Negotiate Based on Equity, Empowerment, and Respect

• Be respectful
• Be sure to include everyone in the negotiations
• Empower the community through meaningful consultations
• Help the community to define its expectations so you understand them

#9 The Local Community Will Need Complete Information

• Provide a complete report with technical details in plain language
• Provide a cost-benefit analysis
• Reach agreement on the limits of the project

#10 Legally Correct Actions May Be Dangerous to Both Parties

• Do not try to outmanoeuvre the community
• Make sure everyone has time to think
• Attempting to undermine the credibility of traditional knowledge is not useful
• Maintain cultural respect for the community

#11 Make Sure Neighbouring Communities Are Informed and Involved

• Joint assessments of impact are important

#12 Call for Arbitration to Get Past Non-Productive Situations

• If relationships erode, try a simple self-examination
• Agree on an acceptable arbitrator

GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES
#1 Establish Sustainability Policies for Natural Resources and Indigenous People

• Set policies to rationalize exploitation of non-renewable resources
• Set policies on the basis of sustainability for renewable resources
• Set policies on the basis of sustainability of quality of life for indigenous people

#2 Develop Sustainability Strategies by Involving All Stakeholders

• Good strategies are based on the needs of all people
• Multi-stakeholder negotiations work in many countries

#3 Separate Government Agencies That Exploit from Those That Regulate

• Regulatory agencies should not have an inherent conflict of interest
• Manage access to isolated indigenous people to maintain their social, cultural, and physical health
• Research the socioeconomic background of the community before making contact

#4 Enforce the Traditional Resource Rights of Indigenous People

• Be aware of relevant international statues and conventions

#5 Fund Capacity-Building Amongst Your Nation's Indigenous People