The increasing number of natural disasters in the last decade necessitates the increase in capacity and agility while delivering humanitarian relief. A common logistics strategy used by humanitarian organizations to respond this need is the establishment of pre-positioning warehouse networks. In the pre-positioning strategy, critical relief inventories are located near the regions at which they...

Studies of humanitarian supply chain operations contribute to efficient system designs for the delivery goods and services disaster- conflict-stricken regions. However, our understanding what happens these relief after they are delivered is quite limited. Using a case study Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan, we develop theory informal networks, whereby uncover how refugee-led, networks emerge cam...

In recent years mankind experienced several "megadisasters" such as hurricane Katrine and tsunami in Indian Ocean in 2004. They showed that conventional tiered response to disasters does not work well in this case. Megadisasters require application of new technologies including context-aware interoperability of participants, on-the-fly decision support assistance and other. The paper describes ...

Humanitarian organisations find it incredibly challenging to work with a diverse group of stakeholders. Coordination between actors is challenging, and occasionally efforts are duplicated. Collaboration issues have been identified as major stumbling block in the management humanitarian projects. These must be addressed since they will lead inefficiency impede response process before, during, af...

Road accidents, as one of the causes mortality in human societies, have many adverse social and economic consequences. Various measures can improve safety travel. One them is to find appropriate location relief infrastructures. The proper pre-positioning chains locations  decrease road users’ fatalities. Thus this paper presents a  multi-objective mathematical model a chain for accidents. Then ...

Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to see how supply chain management practices affected humanitarian relief organizations in the Gedeo zone. Research methodology: used a mixed research approach, with respondents selected using stratified proportionate technique from each organization's employees disseminate questionnaire and semi-structured interviews done purposeful sampling tec...

This paper examines the present value of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief, in view of discussions on neutrality and the Western bias of the humanitarian aid system, and assesses how it can retain its relevance in future. The Code of Conduct was launched just after the Rwanda genocide of Apr...

The study investigated whether accountability mediates the relationship between managerial competencies and supply chain performance of relief aid organizations in western Uganda. A cross-sectional correlational design was used involving a sample 108 operating Organizations were stratified according to humanitarian clusters food security, logistics, education, water sanitation, health, educatio...

Low- and middle-income countries carry a disproportionate share of the global burden of pediatric surgical disease and have limited local healthcare infrastructure and human resources to address this burden. Humanitarian efforts that have improved or provided access to necessary basic or emergency surgery for children in these settings have included humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, ...