SERVICES
Our team has wide-ranging expertise across diaspora groups, migration, human rights, humanitarian action, policy advocacy, and cultural studies emphasising national and cultural identity formation, refugee finance, refugee debt, diaspora finance, transnationalism and civic activism.
Shabaka is also able to draw on our team’s diversity and multi-lingual-ism, as staff and consultants are fluent in Arabic, Amharic, Kiswahili, French, Turkish, Russian, chiShona, Spanish, Portuguese and English.
We pride ourselves on our connections within diaspora communities and influence with in advocacy platforms. This combination facilitates access to rich data on diasporas, migration and humanitarian issues, which we analyse and disseminate via research papers, policy briefings and podcasts.
Our team has wide-ranging expertise across diaspora groups, migration, human rights, humanitarian action, policy advocacy, and cultural studies emphasising national and cultural identity formation, refugee finance, refugee debt, diaspora finance, transnationalism and civic activism.
Shabaka is also able to draw on our team’s diversity and multi-lingual-ism, as staff and consultants are fluent in Arabic, Amharic, Kiswahili, French, Turkish, Russian, chiShona, Spanish, Portuguese and English.
RESEARCH
Evidence base is critical. We document and analyse diaspora and migrant action in the development and humanitarian spaces. Also, we engage in client-led research and advisory services on diaspora communities.
Advocacy
We provide advocacy with and on behalf of diasporas to bring them into the centre of policy and practice on migration and humanitarian action. Strategic partnerships with other organisations – particularly smaller organisations with a shared mission and programme priorities – and ensure presence at key policy forums, whether as participants or speakers.
Communications
We provide a wide range of communication materials on the role that diaspora and migrant actors play in humanitarian action and amplifying their voices.
Training
We provide training with and for diaspora actors and organisations to support more effective humanitarian action. Additionally, Shabaka delivers training and advice to government, international organisations and the private sector on diaspora engagement in humanitarian action, second and subsequent-generation diaspora engagement, and research methodologies in complex emergencies and with hard-to-reach populations.
OUR STAKEHOLDERS
OUR FOCUS AREAS
Humanitarian practices and policies
DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT
International development
ADVOCACY
