INTERNATIONAL LAND MANAGEMENT Focus provides international land management services to help oil and gas producers complete their exploration and development projects in developing countries. We realize the importance of effective public consultation and consensus building when engaged in an international land management project. Focus ensures local citizens are involved in the land management process, thus reducing the risk of work stoppages and ensuring that the needs of our clients and landowners are clearly understood and documented. Focus complies with World Bank standards and ensures that accurate data is available to facilitate strong decision making among all project stakeholders.

To ensure a successful outcome, Focus assembles a multi-disciplinary project team comprised of specialists in sociology, economics, human resources and gender awareness. Our team is familiar with land and environmental issues in developing countries and also includes database developers, land surveyors, GIS and mapping technicians and engineers. Our specialists also work through an extensive quality control and quality assurance process.

Focus international land management services:

• Land acquisition
• Land compensation
• Land surveying
• Socio-economic studies
• Inflation monitoring
• Demographic data gathering
• Public consultations
• Land market evaluations

Testimonial

As we approach an end to the long and sometimes difficult process of acquiring the necessary COTCO land rights, I want to explicitly acknowledge the significant contribution made by FOCUS in support of COTCO.

Your team here has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to doing this job and DOING IT WELL.

I recently verbally received the assessment of the World Bank's External Compliance Monitoring Consultant, an Italian firm. These objective and experienced assessors observed that the COTCO individual compensation program was (is) quite simply "the best" they had ever seen. I believe we at COTCO can be proud of this program but we must also recognize that our success is in no small measure directly attributable to the skills, energy and commitment to doing this right, demonstrated by FOCUS employees.

On behalf of COTCO, Thank You.

E.R.(Ed) Caldwell
Manager, Environmental Management Plan
Cameroon Oil Transportation Company – COTCO