For corporate buyers · Mining · Energy · Infrastructure
Verified Indigenous local content for your operation
If your site sits on Indigenous territory, community relations are a material risk. Buying from verified Indigenous businesses of the territory is the most direct (and auditable) way to manage it.
The trust wall
Every business, with its level in plain sight.
Your local-content report is worth only as much as the verification behind it. That is why every business in the directory carries its level in plain sight: never just "Indigenous business". And certification is a right of those who comply, not a favour from those who certify: Law 19.039 requires the Seal to be authorised for every business that meets the Regulation, and allows refusal only by reasoned decision stating which requirement is unmet.
Ownership verified
The Foundation verified its Indigenous ownership against the Regulation and its registration with the tax authority.
Useful for: discovering and sizing the territory's supply.
Ownership, management and control
At least 50% of capital held by Indigenous owners plus Indigenous administration or legal representation, documentarily verified by the FEi committee. Ownership, management and control: all three at once.
Useful for: reporting Indigenous spend without exposure.
Responsible supplier
Legal, labor, operational and integrity compliance audit, with georeferenced territorial ties. Funded by the buyer. It is an attribute of a Certified company, which is how it is presented: the Regulation closes the System at two articulated levels.
Useful for: onboarding into your supply chain and verified Indigenous local content reporting.
The return to the territory
What the Seal does not certify
The Seal accredits who owns a business, not what it does for Indigenous peoples: the Regulation excludes cultural authenticity and Indigenous content from its scope. The underlying question — what the territory gains from this business being Indigenous — is answered by two good practices the Regulation promotes, and which your company can build into a purchase agreement.
Respect
Cultural safeguards declaration: the business declares that its brands and signs do not appropriate anyone's cultural heritage, measured against an external standard, INAPI's trademark guidelines.
Support
Declaration of Commitment to Indigenous Peoples: a documented, verifiable commitment in at least one of four dimensions — environmental, social-territorial, cultural-spiritual or economic — proportional to each business's reality.
Both are voluntary, and the reason is legal: Law 19.039 requires the Seal to be authorised for every business that meets the Regulation, so no condition may be demanded that a reasoned decision cannot measure. In design.
What your company gets
Three tools, one auditable indicator
Verified directory
Chile's largest base of Indigenous businesses, organized by verification level, territory, people and sector.
Matching by procurement category
We cross your procurement categories against the verified supply of the territory where you operate, and tell you what exists and what is missing. Antofagasta and Tarapacá first.
Verified Indigenous local content dashboard
Verified, georeferenced Indigenous local content, in the language of your commitments.
Corporate membership
Membership levels
Ally
For companies starting their Indigenous local-content program
- —Access to the verified directory
- —Search by territory and level
- —Participation in network events
Partner
For operations on Indigenous territory with local-content targets
- —Everything in Ally
- —Matching by procurement category in your territory
- —Verified Indigenous local content dashboard
- —One-on-one business roundtables
Strategic Partner
For companies leading the standard in their industry
- —Everything in Partner
- —Dedicated account manager
- —Advisory for your internal supplier program
- —Audit co-funding
Membership fees are discussed according to the size of the operation. International reference: US$5,000–15,000/year across the GSDA network.
Let's start with a pilot
Ninety days: your procurement categories, our verified base of the territory, and a sample dashboard with what you cannot measure today.
Talk to the Foundationcontacto@empresasindigenas.org · Temuco · Santiago