The Effect of Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Practices on the Performance of Selected UN Organizations
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2021-08
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of supply chain management practice on performance of humanitarian organization’s emergency response programs of UN organizations operating in Ethiopia. The study adopted Explanatory (Correlation and regression) and descriptive (mean, frequency distribution, and simple percentage scores) research designs to explain and analyze the collected data with the help of Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) tool. Target populations of the study were Employees of the twenty eight UN agencies in Ethiopia while the Source population was accordingly the individual employees from selected four UN organizations operational in Ethiopia. The study used two staged sampling method, where purposive sampling was used at the first stage to select the four UN agencies matching the inclusion criteria while a stratified sampling method was used at the second stage to select the respective respondents (employees) from the selected agencies. The study further used analytical approach of sample size determination with study’s sample size of 247. With doing so, the researcher, used an online data gathering tool (Survey Legend) and collected data. The result of the research analysis presents the existence of positive relationship between supply chain management practices and performance of emergency response programs. The studied agencies have high practice in both of their Humanitarian Supply Chain Management and performance practices in the Emergency Response Program. The study also showed that Humanitarian Supply Chain Management practices have an effect on the performance of Emergency Response Programs. except warehouse management. Future directives to additionally investigate the effect of determinants of supply chain management and performance determinants is forwarded by the researcher
Key words: supply chain management, procurement, transportation, warehouse, distribution,
Responsiveness, reliability, agility and performance