نتایج جستجو برای: humanitarian relief chain

تعداد نتایج: 335395  

2017
Rameshwar Dubey Nezih Altay

Coordination among actors in a humanitarian relief supply chain decides whether a relief operation can be or successful or not. In humanitarian supply chains, due to the urgency and importance of the situation combined with scarce resources, actors have to coordinate and trust each other in order to achieve joint goals. This paper investigated empirically the role of swift trust as mediating va...

2015
Roberta S. Russell Janine S. Hiller

With the growth in length and breadth of extended supply chains, more companies are employing risk management techniques and resilience planning to deal with burgeoning and costly supply chain disruptions. As companies can learn from humanitarian groups, so can humanitarian groups learn from industry how to respond, recover, and prepare for these disruptive events. This paper looks at industry ...

2011
Irina S. Dolinskaya Zhenyu Shi Karen R. Smilowitz Michael Ross Irina Dolinskaya Karen Smilowitz

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in humanitarian relief provide supplies and services to people in need. Transportation and logistics are big parts of NGO operations, as agencies transport and distribute supplies to and within the affected regions. Improving efficiency of their logistics systems has potential to significantly decrease agencies’ operational costs and expand their se...

2016
Francesca Fallucchi Guglielmo Marconi Massimiliano Tarquini Ernesto William De Luca Georg Eckert

The management of humanitarian logistical operations was for many years the weak link in the relief chain. Within the advent of big data, this challenge has been changing life and the way of dealing in the humanitarian field. Data is increasing exponentially due to the growing digitization of modern life and the further evolution of data collection in combination with the digital technology. Mo...

Journal: :Decision Sciences 2014
Aristides Matopoulos Gyöngyi Kovács Odran Hayes

 The authors would like to thank the European Agency for Reconstruction for access to their data and their kind support. ABSTRACT Different procurement decisions taken by relief organizations can result in considerably different implications in regards to transport, storage, and distribution of humanitarian aid and ultimately can influence the performance of the humanitarian supply chain and t...

2015
V. S. S. Yadavalli E. van Wyk S. Udayabaskaran

A temporo-spatial stochastic model is formulated for analysing the problem of positioning of humanitarian relief centres for optimum disaster-relief management. Disasters occur in a line segment region of the real line according to a Poisson process. Two relief centres are positioned at two different points of the line segment for providing humanitarian relief to the disaster sites. The station...

Journal: :Prehospital and disaster medicine 2009
Matthew R Hunt

INTRODUCTION Expatriate healthcare professionals frequently participate in international relief operations that are initiated in response to disasters due to natural hazards or humanitarian emergencies in low resource settings. This practice environment is significantly different from the healthcare delivery environment in the home countries of expatriate healthcare professionals. Human rights,...

Journal: :Prehospital and disaster medicine 2011
Smita Chackungal Jason W Nickerson Lisa M Knowlton Lynn Black Frederick M Burkle Kathleen Casey David Crandell Didier Demey Lillian Di Giacomo Lena Dohlman Joshua Goldstein James E Gosney Keita Ikeda Allison Linden Catherine M Mullaly Colleen O'Connell Anthony D Redmond Adam Richards Robert Rufsvold Ana L R Santos Terri Skelton Kelly McQueen

The provision of surgery within humanitarian crises is complex, requiring coordination and cooperation among all stakeholders. During the 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit best practice guidelines were proposed to provide greater accountability and standardization in surgical humanitarian relief efforts. Surgical humanitarian relief planning should occur early and include team selection and prepa...

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