Humanitarian logistics : meeting the challenge of preparing for and responding to disasters and complex emergencies / [edited by] Graham Heaslip and Peter Tatham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heaslip, Graham, editor.

Tatham, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance.

Emergency management.

Business logistics.

Physical Description:

xxx, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Kogan Page Limited, 2023.

Summary:

"In rapidly developing emergencies, it is vital for aid agencies to understand how to establish an agile supply chain that resists the chaos of a crisis and caters to unknown needs.In recent years, a number of global crises have highlighted the critical role that logistics plays in humanitarian response. From the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, to the providing of relief to victims of natural disasters, to the bringing of resources to a growing number of migrant crises, there is a vital need to understand how to conduct operations in confused and swiftly changing environments. This multi-contributed title contains chapters from a wide range of academics and practitioners who have worked in these situations, and offers cutting edge research into how these complex problems can be solved.Now in its 4th edition, Humanitarian Logistics is fully updated and contains new chapters on the challenge of obtaining scarce resources in the aftermath of a disaster, sustainability in a HL context, the logistics of the COVID-19 vaccine, the challenges of procurement in HL, a study of the humanitarian service performance system, cash-based HL systems and the interaction of blockchain and HL. Tightly organized by highly qualified editors, this book is essential reading for anyone who needs to understand how to effectively manage supply networks during a rapidly developing emergency"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Managing supply networks under conditions of uncertainty

Lessons from best practice

The way forward

Endpiece

Notes

01. Impacts of funding systems on humanitarian operations / Fuminori Toyasaki

Abstract

Introduction

Structure of funding systems

Impacts of financial flows on disaster response

Incentives provided by donors

Fundraising

humanitarian operations interface in literature

Summary and conclusion

Acknowledgement

References

02. Supplier relationships in humanitarian organizations / Anthony Beresford

Humanitarian supply chain management and partnership

Framing the key issues

power, trust and commitment

Situational factors

Organizational factors

03. Providing logistics services for humanitarian relief / Christine Roussat

Introduction: Logistics services

Commercial providers

Humanitarian providers

A continuum of actors

Note

04. Risky business revisited: Disasters within disasters / Paul D. Larson

Review and classification of the literature

Security evaluation and management

Research agenda

05. The journey from a patchy to a comprehensive supply chain in UNHCR (2005

2015) / Svein J. Hapnes

Introduction to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Building the understanding of supply chain management in UNHCR (2005

2006)

Establishing the need to improve supply chain management in UNHCR (late 2006)

The internal `battle' for change (2007)

Establishing in Budapest, building the new supply chain organization (2008

2015)

The development in forcible displaced in the world and UNHCR budgets (2005

Improvements made to the UNHCR supply chain management function (2005-2015)

Key lessons identified

Summary and conclusion, UNHCR SCM 2015 onwards

06. Humanitarian supply chain service performance / Thomas E. Fernandez

Service quality performance measurement used in commercial supply chains

Service quality performance measurement in relief operations

Developing HUMSERVPERF questionnaire

Appendix 6.A HUMSERVPERF questionnaire

Appendix 6.B Result of HUMSERVPERF for the flood context

07. Network design for pre-positioning emergency relief items / Gerard De Villiers

Setting the scene

Covid-19 context for pre-positioning

Humanitarian logistics

Planning hierarchy

Network design

Location of disaster events

Typical emergency relief items to be pre-positioned

UNHRD network

ESUPS project

Centre-of-gravity analysis technique

Centre-of-gravity analysis application

Channel strategy

08. Competing for scarce resources during emergencies: A system dynamics perspective / Paulo Goncalves

Challenging aspects of humanitarian response to emergencies

Characteristics of complex systems

Behaviour in complex systems

Components of complex systems

09. Preparing for cash and voucher assistance: Developing capabilities and building capacities / Russell Harpring

A brief introduction to cash and voucher assistance

What does preparedness mean for cash and voucher assistance?

Preparedness throughout the cash and voucher assistance operations cycle

Acknowledgements

10. Pandemic response and humanitarian logistics / Ioanna Falagara Sigala

Humanitarian healthcare logistics

Insights from past pandemic response

Lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of personal protective equipment

Supply chain tools to accelerate vaccination programmes

11. Helping people and planet: Making the humanitarian supply chain more sustainable / Jonas Stumpf

Sustainability in the context of uncertainty

The environmental impact of HSCS and current initiatives

Shifting perspectives: Opportunities for HSCS

12. What next for humanitarian logistics? / Tikhwi Jane Muyundo

The right product

The right cost

The right place

The right time

The right quantity

13. The way forward: Current trends in humanitarian logistics / Gyongyi Kovacs

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

What is new under the sun?

Famous last words

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Humanitarian logistics

ISBN:

9781398607163

1398607169

9781398607149

1398607142

OCLC:

1348494949

Publisher Number:

99992969593