Threat and risk assessment
Identify internal and external threats, assess likelihood and consequence, and prioritise the risks that require action.
Before construction
Understand project risk before construction begins.
GRAIL helps renewable-energy developers identify threats, understand local context and design proportionate mitigation before people, equipment and contractors arrive on site.
Development phase security
Build security into the project from the start.
Early decisions shape the project’s exposure throughout construction and operation. As a result, GRAIL builds a detailed understanding of the local environment and community, including the likelihood and potential impact of community-related risks during construction and operations.
GRAIL highlights where community engagement and local economic participation can positively impact the community and therefore provide greater security to the project.
GRAIL identifies procurement expectations that may not have been met in the past, labour expectations, the political environment, and land and access issues—especially where influenced by traditional authority or community leadership dynamics. It also considers stakeholder issues and the criminal and organised-crime environment. These factors, and many more, are likely to influence the project during both construction and operations.
The result is a prioritised view of risk and a Security Management Plan aligned to the site, community context and intended project lifecycle.
Identify threatsQuantifying riskMitigation measures
Core workstreams
Community context
Understand the local operating environment, stakeholder dynamics and community-related factors that may affect the project.
Security Management Plan
Translate findings into proportionate physical, technical, procedural and management measures for implementation.
Global experience. Local application.
International experience, applied to local realities.
GRAIL combines experience gained on international assignments for leading organisations with a grounded understanding of Southern African operating conditions.
GRAIL has a fifteen-year partnership with the renewable-energy sector in South and Southern Africa. GRAIL understands the many different environments, communities, threats, and internal and external pressures that can affect projects. Drawing on these issues and the many factors unique to a project area, GRAIL builds bespoke solutions for every project.
Typical outputs
A practical basis for action.
The scope is shaped around the project, but a development-phase engagement can include:
01Internal and external threat assessment02Likelihood and consequence ratings03Prioritised project-risk findings04Community-context considerations05Recommended risk-mitigation measures06Comprehensive Security Management Plan
Development phase assessment
Understand the exposure.
Prepare the project.
Speak to GRAIL about a comprehensive security and community risk assessment review, shaped around your project’s requirements.
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