Our Clients and Partners
Communities
Too often, communities are invisible in project design, and treated as passive beneficiaries of projects—spoken for, spoken about, but not truly heard. At OneNature, we believe in something different: that communities can hold the wisdom, resilience, and creativity needed to lead their own wellbeing and environmental futures, if they are engaged in a meaningful way.
We partner with communities around the globe to:
- Understand what matters most through our holistic Wild Happiness Approach
- Design solutions that reflect values, culture, and lived realities
- Strengthen decision-making and ensure that local voices drive local strategies
- Monitor wellbeing and environmental outcomes over time—on your terms
Whether facing changes to land use, natural resource management, tourism, or climate adaptation, our tools and support are designed to help communities protect what matters most and shape a thriving future—for people and for land.
Results:
- Greater community leadership and influence in sustainability decisions
- Solutions rooted in cultural, spiritual, and social priorities
- Stronger relationships with external partners and funders
- Increased wellbeing, resilience, and environmental stewardship
Companies and ESG/Sustainability Teams
Struggling to report the “S” in ESG? You’re not alone—and we’re here to help. Most ESG frameworks place a strong emphasis on quantitative environmental and governance metrics, but social impact metrics are often vague, incomplete, and anecdotal. That’s where OneNature comes in.
We help corporate ESG teams, sustainability leads, and CSR departments to:
- Quantify the social value created through your operations or programs
- Translate community engagement into credible, reportable metrics
- Identify social risks that could jeopardize your license to operate by incorporating quantified sentiment into your risk analysis to understand where communities stand with regard to intended benefits and provide early warning when sentiment turns against investments or projects
- Co-create locally informed, regenerative strategies with measurable returns
- Align with global frameworks like the Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Sustainable Development Goals, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and more
Whether you work in infrastructure, extractives, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), agriculture, tourism, conservation, or other land-use projects, our wellbeing-centered framework helps you strengthen local relationships, build resilience, and demonstrate an innovative and community-focused approach in social impact.
Results:
- Compliance-ready reporting on social impact
- Strengthened relationships with communities, regulators, and investors
- Reduced reputational and operational risk
- A clearer, more authentic sustainability narrative
NGOs, Donors, and Implementers
Are your solutions truly working for the communities you serve? Is there a risk of unintended consequences? We help you find out —and adapt. Many well-intended programs struggle to gain traction because they overlook or have erroneous assumptions about local values, contexts, and lived realities. At OneNature, we help implementers and their supporters bridge that gap by turning community insights into practical, scalable action.
We help:
- Implementers and funders to integrate social wellbeing into climate, conservation, and development strategies and to diagnose what’s working—and where trust or beneficial outcomes are falling short of what was promised
- Program designers assess project alignment with community needs through co-creation to better understand community needs and to build trust.
- Implementers and funders to diagnose what is working and to anticipate where beneficial outcomes are falling short of expectations
Our tools—like the Wild Happiness Survey and the Community Wellbeing Analysis—equip you with reliable data, stories, and early-warning signs so you can course-correct or build on what’s working.
Results:
- Higher project success and lower failure rates
- Greater community ownership and permanence of impacts
- More robust, evidence-based reporting to funders and boards
- More equitable, inclusive development outcomes
Governments & Policymakers
As global focus shifts toward inclusive, wellbeing-driven development, governments are under increasing pressure to move beyond GDP and account for what truly matters to their citizens. OneNature offers field-tested frameworks and data collection tools to support this transition.
We work with policymakers, researchers, and public sector partners to:
- Embed qualitative and quantitative wellbeing indicators in national strategies
- Support the design of inclusive sustainability policies grounded in lived experience
- Provide community-level data for regional and local planning and monitoring
- Align public strategies with regional and global goals (e.g. SDGs, Beyond GDP, Wellbeing Economy Alliance, regional development programs)
- Use social data to anticipate risks, shape infrastructure priorities, and redesign public services
Whether you’re working on land use planning, rural development, or sustainability transitions, our approach ensures that people and places are treated as interdependent pillars of prosperity.
Results:
- Policy strategies that reflect real community needs and values
- More targeted and cost-effective interventions
- Increased legitimacy and trust in government-led initiatives
- Documented contributions to global indicators
- Evidence-based policymaking