Community input for effective consultations
The Engagement Platform is a secure, independent space where people and organisations respond to public consultations on development-bank projects, choose how visible they are, and see how their input is addressed.
Our mission: make public consultation meaningful — every submission heard, tracked, and answered.
This platform responds to a series of needs
Public consultations on large projects are often hard to access, easy to ignore, and rarely close the loop. Communities submit input and never learn what happened to it.
Hard to access
Consultations on large projects are often hard to find and easy to overlook, so the people most affected are never meaningfully consulted.
Rarely answered
Feedback is submitted into a void — comments are seldom answered in public, so communities cannot tell whether anyone listened.
The loop never closes
Projects rarely publish what they changed in response, so consultation becomes a formality instead of accountability.
Our values and structure set us apart
Submit fully public, identified to the bank only, or anonymously — you choose how visible you are.
Run by an independent operator, separate from the bank and the project company.
Multilingual, mobile-first interfaces built for the people actually affected.
Submissions reach the bank's review team and receive a response.
Track your submission with a one-time code and see, at close-out, what was addressed.
Built around development-bank environmental & social and access-to-information practice.
About The Iris Project gGmbH
The Iris Project gGmbH is a subsidiary of Araminta gUG, a human rights organization focused on human rights protection, the accountability of governments and corporations, and civic-space resilience in countries of the former Soviet Union. The Iris Project brings the technical solutions that protect community and stakeholder voices, ensure dynamic and effective accountability mechanisms, and encourage public participation in a region where civic space and social trust are fragile. We do this with a relentless focus on security of the person, digital security, and data protection.
Working on transparency and community engagement across Europe and Central Asia.