Abstract Responding to a disaster encompasses myriad of humanitarian actions; the ultimate and crucial is immediate relief distribution. Making effective decisions in chaotic environment always complex challenging. Decisions made here are heavily influenced by several related problem areas such as facility locations, supply chain, transportation, scheduling, inventory management. While each the...

Post-disaster humanitarian relief is full of importance, complexity and difficulty, which makes people pay more attentions to various disaster measures emergency management practices related preventions reductions. The main purpose protect the lives victims in affected areas provide with indispensable materials survive from unexpected disaster. Therefore, this paper puts its focus on some key d...

As disasters become progressively more frequent and complex, better collaboration through partnerships with private business becomes important. This research aimed to understand how platforms support the engagement of sector—especially logistics businesses—in humanitarian relief operations. The study was based on a literature review an investigation emblematic case cross-sector platform, recogn...

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, reaching approximately 90 million people with food assistance across 80 countries each year. To deal operational complexities inherent in its mandate, WFP has been developing tools to assist decision makers integrating supply chain decisions departments and functional areas. This paper describes a mixed...

BACKGROUND Natural disasters, armed conflict, migration, and epidemics today occur more frequently, causing more death, displacement of people and economic loss. Their burden on health systems and healthcare workers (HCWs) is getting heavier accordingly. The ethical problems that arise in disaster settings may be different than the ones in daily practice, and can cause preventable harm or the v...

Purpose This paper aims to provide a systematic literature review of the state-of-the-art applications climate information in humanitarian relief efforts, further knowledge how science can be better integrated into decision-making process supply chains. Design/methodology/approach A was conducted using combination key search terms developed from both and logistics literature. Articles four majo...