IBS has been tasked to develop a comprehensive community engagement and communication strategy involving local communities potentially affected by an Oil & Gas project at Lang Lebah, Bintulu. To achieve this goal, it is imperative to understand the Bintulu context and its community.  The project team is assigned to deliver three main outcomes - community baseline survey, social impact assessment, and a comprehensive Community Development Plan. The project team works collaboratively with and through groups of communities affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people.

IBS has been requested to conduct a community engagement study to demystify Forest Carbon among 60 indigenous village communities within the Marudi Forest Conservation and Restoration project that is conducted by SaraCarbon Sdn. Bhd. As such, our multidisciplinary team of researchers worked on planning and conducting the engagement study to about 2,800 households who live in the project area.

The institute's objectives in this project is to formulate a geoportal that assimilates two knowledge paradigms about the existing cultural monuments and archaelogical sites. As a testbed, the Kelabit Highlands was chosen for the forumulation of a digital heritage geoportal model that weaves scientific knowledge into localized indigenous perceptions of place in order to reingorce heritage awareness and preservation.

IBS has been engaged to work on ground breaking research on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Borneo. The project goal is to capture a first-hand account of how indigenous communities in Borneo are affected by climate change and how they are adapting to it (or failing to). The results make an important contribution to global knowledge on climate change in general and on its impact on indigenous communities in particular – knowledge that will be essential for policymakers and indigenous peoples’ organisations for crafting sustainable solutions to the challenges being faced by everyone.