Advancing humanitarian action for greater impact.

Building capacity, improving quality, and driving better responses worldwide.

Specialisation

Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting's core business is offering humanitarian expertise. HBC specializes in training, capacity building, evaluation, shelter, coordination.

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Philosophy, mission, objectives, history Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting (HBC) is a small team of dedicated and experienced humanitarian experts working within a social enterprise.

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Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting (HBC)

is a small team of dedicated and experienced humanitarian experts working within a social enterprise company.

HBC aim to support humanitarian agencies to ensure a minimum standard in humanitarian work. The company head office is in Jakarta, with an operational team based out of Yogyakarta and Melbourne. HBC engage with a range of associate consultants across the South East Asia region.

About Us

Philosophy, mission, objectives, history

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Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting (HBC) is a small team of dedicated and experienced humanitarian experts working within a social enterprise.

HBC aim to support humanitarian agencies to ensure a minimum standard in humanitarian work.

HBC was formed by four consultants concerned about the capacity building needs that became apparent during the humanitarian response following the destructive Yogyakarta Earthquake in 2006.

HBC was formalised as a company in 2009 with two directors, Dave Hodgkin and Mark Deasey.

HBC continues to respond directly to disasters in the roles of coordination, expert advice, evaluation and training, as well as working in disaster preparedness and organisational development.

Our specialisations are project design, evaluation and shelter coordination. Building capacity of local communities is important in all our work.

However HBC has a wide capacity to:

    • facilitate and evaluate change processes
    • develop trainings on humanitarian work, especially in training of trainers, shelter and international development
    • evaluate of humanitarian projects
    • organize strategic planning
    • develop manuals and guidelines
    • undertake contingency planning

As a social enterprise, HBC carries out a wide range of Corporate Social Responsibility non-profit activities, including managing QuakeFund grants, supporting waste recycling initiatives and establishing RedR Indonesia as a new training hub for disaster response.

Expertise

Dave specializes in Humanitarian Response, Shelter and Disaster Coordination, with over 20 years’ experience in humanitarian and development organisation management. Dave has been the managing HBC since its inception in 2009. His experience includes managing both national and international volunteers for Peace Brigade International Indonesia Project, advising on and evaluating the performance of volunteers within the Red Cross Movement in Indonesia and managing Indonesian and International volunteers for IDEP in their Aceh operations. Dave has been based out of Yogyakarta for more than ten years, travelling extensively across Indonesia and Southeast Asia and is fluent in Bahasa Indonesian.
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DAVE HODGKIN
MANAGING DIRECTOR, SHELTER AND COORDINATION SPECIALIST
Alex Ryan is a bilingual trainer, strategic planner and participatory facilitator specialising in environment and international development related fields in Indonesia and the Asia Pacific region. Alex has worked in and consulted to NGOs in Southeast Asia and Australia for over 20 years. In the last nine years Alex has been a freelance consultant in facilitation skills training, design, MonEv and strategic planning. Alex also works as a facilitator to groups and organisations at different levels and stages of program planning, implementation and review. Additional professional experience includes environmental advocacy campaigns, research into overseas development assistance, disaster response and recovery and waste reduction and prevention.
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ALEX RYAN
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
Based out of Melbourne, Fabian works as a project manager, humanitarian shelter advisor and trainer for HBC. He is actively involved in the ongoing development of open-source humanitarian resources and promotion of environmental sustainability and CSR programmes for HBC, including work on the Humanitarian Bamboo Project. Fabian brings a broad set of skills to every project that he is involved with: disaster preparedness strategies, architecture, furniture design, photography, sculpture, event management, web design, training, project management and humanitarian response. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Masters of Architecture and has worked / volunteered in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, remote Australia, Spain, Italy, China, Indonesia, Nepal and the UK.
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FABIAN PRIDEAUX
PROJECT MANAGER
Ana Gatóo has been working for the past years through research and practice to improve construction technologies with the use of sustainable designs and natural materials in the developing world. She is a Building Engineer with a Masters in Architecture. She has worked at the Centre for Natural Material Innovation in the University of Cambridge improving houses in the slums of Brazil and Ecuador, in the Philippines, Indonesia and Nepal in a post-disaster context designing earthquake resistant prototypes as well as promoting and giving trainings on the proper use of local materials. Ana has also worked in the slums of Kenya, developing methods of participatory design with communities and implementing those methods.
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ANA GATOO
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
Miguel López Beraza specialized as a Building Engineer on earth construction typologies. During his Masters in Architecture, he focused on tropical and post disaster architecture. Miguel has experience working with natural and local materials in the developing world, assisted in projects in the slums of Brazil and in The Philippines after Haiyan. He has worked for HBC in several projects as developing guidelines on the proper use of bamboo or as a technical consultant in a post-disaster context. Miguel complements those skills with a Masters on photography and documentary filmmaking and a reputable career on the audiovisual sector, obtaining multiple international awards with his work.
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MIGUEL LOPEZ BERAZA
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

Specialisation

What HBC does

Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting’s core business is offering humanitarian expertise. HBC specializes in training, capacity building, evaluation, shelter, coordination.

HBC has undertaken consultancies in the Asia Pacific region for a broad range of organizations.

Training and Capacity Building
Offers introductions to the humanitarian response environment, training on trainers and also on-demand advanced learning modules and tailored trainings run by expert trainers with operational experience.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Provides expertise in continuous assessment and evaluation on wide range subjects such as shelter, disaster response and project developmentin the fields of governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian assistance.

Humanitarian Response Support
Provide sufficient, competent, and effective relief personnel on the ground to supportother humanitarian actors in assessment, planning and implementing program immediately during or/and after crisis.

Consultancy
Specializes in supporting humanitarian actors in designing, buildingand maintaining the permanent and temporary shelter in disaster response.Furthermore we expertise in creating or improving strategic program for humanitarian response.

Where does HBC work?

Indonesia Philippines
Pakistan East Timor
Bangladesh Thailand
India Norway
United Kingdom Switzerland
Sri Lanka Malaysia
Singapore Myanmar
Australia

Publications

Corporate Social Responsbility

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QUAKEFUND

QuakeFund is a small informal fund setup to bridge the gap between individuals and families wanting to help disaster affected areas. We work together with local NGOs and affected communities on small scale projects that address local needs.

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IBAN (INDONESIA BAN ASBESTOS NETWORK)

IBAN raises awareness & advocate banning the use of asbestos in Indonesia. IBAN establish in 2010, as part of initiation from several organization who had concern in asbestos consumption and industry in Indonesia. IBAN, was formed by health and safety activists, environmental campaigners, trade unionists and representatives from non-governmental organizations.

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REDR INDONESIA

RedR Indonesia is part of a federation of national accredited RedR organisations who share a common vision and mission. RedR Indonesia runs training courses, recruit relief workers and provide support to humanitarian organisations and professionals around the world. RedR Indonesia adheres to the following principles adopted by RedR International: objectivity, scope, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service and unity.

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HUMANITARIAN BAMBOO

The Humanitarian Bamboo project aims to bridge the gap between the knowledge held by skilled bamboo artisans and builders and the immediate need for practical solutions for aid workers and affected communities in post-disaster responses.

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Let’s strengthen humanitarian action together.

Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting (HBC) works with agencies, organizations, and communities to improve the quality and impact of humanitarian response. Whether you’re looking for training, evaluation, or expert support — we’d love to connect.

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📧 Email : info@humanitarianbenchmark.com

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