Blockchain for humanitarian action and development aid

Decision Aid Models and Systems for Humanitarian Logistics. A Survey

The number and impact of disasters seems to be increasing in the last decades, and their consequences have to be managed in the best possible way. Recent years have seen an explosion of literature regarding disaster and emergency management, as it is a topic of high relevance in today’s world. Among this literature, there is an increasing amount of research regarding mathematical models and sys...

Politicisation of humanitarian aid and its consequences for Afghans.

This paper outlines the implications of international approaches to humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, focusing in particular on the period since the Taliban assumed power. It argues that international efforts to use conditionality on humanitarian assistance have proved ineffective in influencing the Taliban's policies, and have been implemented despite the negative impact on the welfare o...

Editorial Humanitarian Aid on the move

On 12 January 2010 at 4.50 pm local time (the middle of the night in Europe), the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault awoke. The earth began to shake, thick white dust rose above Port-au-Prince while a terrifying noise echoed out. Complete silence followed only to be broken by the screaming and crying of hundreds of thousands of Haitians. When the news reached us at Groupe URD we were in the proce...

Controlling humanitarian aid cowboys in Afghanistan.

Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain?

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of the humanitarian aid supply chain and discuss the extent to which certain business supply chain concepts, particularly supply chain agility, are relevant to humanitarian aid. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies elements of good practice in conventional business supply chains and applies them to the humanitarian...