Designing for Social Licence: From Consultation to Legitimate, Shared-Benefit Infrastructure

The Alluvium Foundation presents Designing for Social Licence: From Consultation to Legitimate, Shared-Benefit Infrastructure, an engaging webinar that challenges one of the most persistent assumptions in infrastructure delivery: that better communication alone is enough to secure community support. Instead, this discussion explores a more fundamental question: what makes people view a decision-making process as legitimate, fair and worthy of trust?

Bringing together leading voices in social performance, governance and community engagement, the conversation examines the foundations of enduring social licence, from meaningful participation and shared decision-making to accountability, institutional trust, and the equitable distribution of project benefits. As one of the webinar’s central propositions suggests, durable social licence is built through “legitimate process, equitable distribution of benefit, credible institutions, and genuine sharing of decision-making power.”

Featuring insights from Bronwyn Cumbo, Nick Flemming, Alexander Hoysted and Dr Kieren Moffat, this webinar offers practical lessons for anyone involved in infrastructure, environmental management, government, policy, or community engagement who is seeking to move beyond consultation and create outcomes that communities can genuinely support over the long term.