
A stakeholder engagement consultancy working in complex environments, dedicated to bringing win-win benefits for all.
Social Side Up
Social Side Up is passionate about participatory project/plan development, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and social inclusion.
Social Side Up helps to deliver positive and sustainable change through meaningful engagement of various stakeholders including vulnerable groups.
Social Side Up works on community & stakeholder engagement, social performance, community audits & assessments & participation. Social Side Up concentrates on worldwide projects.
About me
Sanne Vermeulen (1978) is a social scientist from Free University (VU) Amsterdam. She has extensive experience as an expert in community & stakeholder engagement in projects in humanitarian sector and in sectors of democratic governance, water resource management, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, livelihood development, WASH and Health, climate and conservation resilience, rural and urban development, oil & gas.

“Sanne’s innovative research & analyses, and strategies helped the executive director’s office to make and execute better decisions on stakeholder engagement. Her well-managed consultations were effectively boosting joint actions, and financial & in-kind contributions. Sanne is a committed, results-oriented, and highly socially skilled person.”
BERT DIPHOORN, FORMER DIRECTOR OF UN-HABITAT AND FORMER VICE-CHAIR OF UN-WATER
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