See how Minal and the Henekom Group have made a tangible impact in advancing human rights across diverse sectors. This collection highlights extensive experience and innovative solutions that demonstrate depth, capacity, and strategic vision. From structured stakeholder engagement in the sports and entertainment industry to navigating complex markets with data-driven insights, these examples showcase Henekom’s expertise in forging strategic alliances, implementing comprehensive government approaches, and designing safeguarding initiatives before, during, and after natural disasters.

Henekom Group Highlights

Sports and Entertainment

FIFA Men’s World Cup - Stakeholder Engagement Guide

  • Developed tool over two months for FWC2026 with input from 80+ stakeholders.

  • Outlines a  12-step process  to translate the UNGPs to local 2026 host city settings. 

  • Guides Host Cities in co-creating Action Plans that identify human rights risks and opportunities to mitigate those risks and build trust.

Whole Government Approach

City of Dallas - Human Rights Risk Impact Assessment

  • Designed a first-of-its-kind human rights risk impact assessment for a municipality.

  • Developed and facilitated a workshop with 80+ stakeholders across seven key areas.

  • Delivered a  comprehensive final report  and a presentation to City Council outlining the assessment process and key findings.

Prior Role Highlights

Sports and Entertainment

FIFA Men’s World Cup - Local Host Committee

  • Actualized the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the FIFA World Cup 2026 Human Rights Framework to the local context for a host city organizing committee.

  • Engaged 120 stakeholders in 4 months across 8 human rights areas.

  • Designed a unique and innovative methodology that ensured optimal efficiency with built in risk management and consensus building for a top notch submission. 

Whole Government Approach

1st Comprehensive Muni-Response to Trafficking

  • Translated the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children by designing the first in country comprehensive municipal response to human trafficking.

  • Engaged 250 stakeholders over 6 months and synthesized the information collected after conducting a strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats analysis - resulting in a strengths based, gap filling strategic plan.

  • Aspects of this strategic plan were replicated across the country and some parts of the globe.

Market Entry and Data Insights

Women and Girls Equity Fund

  • Aligned the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to the local context to create equity for women and girls.

  • This report benchmarked major cities’ performance across 41 indicators and 6 outcome focuses to measure the economic and health vitality of women and girls.

  • The purpose was market entry for a Women and Girls Equity Foundation to address historic disparities that lead to lower than average outcomes for women and girls of color.

Legacy Building Strategic Alliances

Launched Global Online Hub with Thomson Reuters Institute

  • Moved stewardship of a vast body of work created over 8 years in a political office and launched a global online resource hub with one of the world’s largest data companies, bringing the body of work to a much broader global audience and preserving the administration’s legacy of contributions in this space. We worked with numerous stakeholders to make this happen. 

Climate Instability

Short and Long Term Natural Disaster Response

  • Realized the International Office of Migration guide to natural disaster responses in the local context by creating a short- and long-term risk mitigation response to ensure constituents and laborers were not exploited during shelter stays and rebuilding efforts.

  • This multi-stakeholder, multi-prong approach collaborated with more than 30 community organizations, all levels of government, 40 corporations, and 6,000+ people whose existing vulnerabilities were exacerbated by the natural disaster.

  • Responses included cot to cot outreach in the emergency shelters, and a year of corporate risk mitigation education to prevent reputational, legal, and financial risks.

International Office of Migration Guidance Actualization