What is it about?
This paper studies in-country transportation risks in the context of humanitarian response. It focuses on best practices that humanitarians used during Nepal response.
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Why is it important?
Disruptions in disaster relief operation, as the results of risks, impact effectiveness, efficiency, and responsiveness of response significantly. However, our study shows that supply chain risks in humanitarian response can be managed effectively given constraints in this context. Using logistics service providers for in-country transportation not only helped humanitarians to reduce and transfer some high-level risks but also helped to grow the local economy after the earthquake.
Perspectives
This paper aims to provide field evidence for humanitarians regarding how they can improve their operations. It also has implications for theory and provides some concrete future research directions.
Mr Hossein Baharmand
Universitetet i Agder
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This page is a summary of: Managing in-country transportation risks in humanitarian supply chains by logistics service providers: Insights from the 2015 Nepal earthquake, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, July 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.07.007.
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