Humanitarian corridors are critical for aid

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...

Business processes in international humanitarian aid

International humanitarian aid provides assistance such as food, shelter, and health or counseling services across national boundaries to communities in need. Universally, international humanitarian aid organizations play a critical role, by supporting the survival and recovery of communities affected by crises such as natural disasters, conflicts or disease epidemics. In most instances the tec...

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...