What we do
The Human Cabinet follows human-centred, alternative, and creative thinking approaches in designing sustainable solutions to respond to the unpredictable, volatile nature of humanitarian and development contexts. Looking to serve our clients around the clock in their project cycles, we perform meaningful research and invest in our sector-specific expertise to feed into their strategic, operational, programmatic, and technical decision-making streams. We design and define, through words and visuals, clear pictures and roadmaps for clients to best serve communities and their environments.
This is what we can deliver:
Contract acquisitions and partnerships
Proposal engineering
We craft compelling funding proposals that meet donor specifications while intelligently incorporating community priorities. Our expertise spans the environmental, humanitarian, and development sectors, ensuring our partners' projects stand out.
Strategic innovations and transformation maps
Our strategic services help you navigate complex challenges with robust theories of change and innovative strategies. We pave the way for transformative impacts, guiding your organization from vision to tangible outcomes.
Grant acquisition and management
We assist in identifying potential funding sources, managing grant applications, and ensuring compliance with funding requirements, enhancing your capacity to secure and manage essential resources.
Partnership cultivation
Through a robust global network, our experts help you build and maintain strategic partnerships that amplify your reach and effectiveness. We facilitate collaborations across sectors to leverage collective strengths.
Technical assistance
WASH
The Human Cabinet expertise in Water Sanitation and Hygiene drives community change through innovative project design and planning. Since 2014, it has supported INGOs and governments around the five continents with infrastructure planning and social behaviour change to respond to public health risks.
The Cabinet’s flagship intervention is System Behaviour Change in WASH, based on socio-anthropological research to deliver creative communication, information, and learning campaigns which enable effective, community-driven change in water and sanitation perceptions and practices.
Protection
Protection and human rights are central to our work. With 20 years of experience, we help organizations create strategies for social protection, especially during natural disasters and conflicts, focusing on children, women, and people with disabilities.
Our expertise spans General Protection, Child Protection, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). By translating humanitarian principles into practical actions, we empower communities to enhance their self-protection and agency. Our approach uniquely combines Child Protection with MHPSS, creating impactful projects that address both immediate and long-term needs.
Education (in Emergencies)
Since 2005, our experts have designed innovative solutions for volatile contexts like Iraq, Syria, and South Sudan. Our approach encompasses formal and non-formal education, accelerated learning, and social-emotional support, helping students continue learning despite hostile environments, lockdowns, and conflicts.
Beyond program implementation, we provide comprehensive support to our partners. This includes education program design, review, and evaluation, as well as technical assistance during implementation. Our specialists also help organizations secure large-scale funding by ensuring strong negotiation cases for our partners.
Disaster Risk Management
Our team, as part of the humanitarian system, has led disaster preparedness, response efforts, and recovery operations worldwide, including Bangladesh, Syria, Lebanon, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Latin America, while writing proposals and evaluating programs and systems.
Our expertise extends beyond field operations; we’ve crafted proposals for leading organizations and conducted comprehensive evaluations of critical programs and systems. These include Early Warning and Early Action mechanisms, Risk Monitoring frameworks, Anticipatory Action strategies, and Community-based monitoring systems.
Sport for Development (S4D)
Since 2017, the Cabinet’s senior staff have collaborated with TdH, the Olympic Refugee Committee, and UEFA to enhance protection and safeguarding in sports. In addition to publications addressing psychosocial support and protection through and in sport, our team members’ articles have been featured in leading international S4D platforms.
Training and coaching
We enhance leadership, sector-specific and project management skills through tailored, experiential training workshops and coaching. Our methodology, based on experiential learning, integrates cutting edge technology, role play, games, and hands-on activities for diverse teams.
Insightful learning through monitoring and evaluation
Advanced analytical assessments
Our monitoring and evaluation frameworks employ cutting-edge methodologies and technologies to meticulously gather and analyse data, providing clear insights into program effectiveness and impact and generating relevant, realistic recommendations.
Strategic feedback Iintegration
We prioritise stakeholder feedback as a cornerstone for continuous improvement and adaptive management, ensuring programs remain effective and accountable.
Humanitarian information systems architecture and big data
Monitoring and Evaluation systems
We support partners in enhancing their programmatic and organisational learning practices by using simple, accurate evidence-gathering approaches customised to their sectors and contexts to develop or improve their systems.
Database architecture
Using cutting-edge computing and AI technologies, we can help you optimize your organization's intelligence through safe, reliable approaches.
Big data processing and analysis
We have been supporting partners to process their databases in order to enhance the analysis. From simple databases to data lakes, it takes us clicks to extract stories from your data.